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exhibitions

video

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, - an exhibiton based on the bicycle 2007

KUNSTFORUM WIEN, VIENNA coming in February 2012 

texts by Rainer Ganahl on bicycling and a text by Simone Schimpf

BICYCLE MANIFESTO bicycle manifesto     --     CONVERT 50 % OF EVERY URBAN STREET INTO A BIKE PATH !

USE A BICYCLE has its own web site (www.usebicycle.com) and functions also a sponsor: please, see this couple who crosses the world on bike.

 

Use a bicycle, 2006 - click to download hi res pic

neon light plexi--

 

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performance - video -

Bicycling Boulevard Haussmann, Paris 2013

 

 

 

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Bicycling Georg W. Bush Avenue, Tbilisi, 2012 video 13 minutes

 

 

 

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its a two channel video.. on top of each other

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Klassenkampf / Class Struggle - Bicycling Tbilisi, 2012, 2 channel  video 60 min,

 

 

 

 

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Kunstforum Wien / Tresor , I wanna be Alfred Jarry Vienna, May, 2012

 

 

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KV Neuhausen - bikeways : streets for  50 % bikes and  50 % cars 

 

 

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THE ART ACADEMY STUTTGART CELEBRATES, GREETINGS, by Sabine Maier, BYD Mercedes Benz, Stuttgart, 2011

 

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RED HOOK CRITERIUM No. 3, 2011 - RED HOOK -  silver print black and white photographs

 

 

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I wanna be Alfred Jarry, VINDEX - 2011, -  objects, photographs and 16 mm film,

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I wanna be Alfred Jarry, Vindex 1897, 2011

16mm film , 5 min 14 seconds

 

 

 

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The condition of the working class in England - Little Ireland. 1842 / 2011

15 min ,

 

 

 

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Étant donné - Use a Bicycle - a black and white 16 mm film, 2011   - 12 min long

THE FILM : (email me for password)

 

 

 

 

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I wanna be Alfred Jarry , CLEVELAND - 2011 -  objects, photographs and 16 mm film,

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I wanna be Alfred Jarry, CLEVELAND - Toulouse Lautrec, 1896 / 1898 / 2011, 2011

4min 35 seconds, 16 mm black and white film

 

 

 

 

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The Passion considered an uphill bicycle race, or I wanna be Alfred Jarry, 1903/2011, Tyrolian Alps bike VIDEO 2011

Youtube Tyrolian Alps bike VIDEO 2011

 

 

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I wanna be Chinese / Dinghi, 2011 - installation, object, film (feb. 2011)

I wanna be Chinese, DINGHI - e-bicycles made in China. more on www.Iwannabechinese.com

 

 

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Counting backwards, Approaching the era of Alfred Jarry (1873 - 1907), 2011

materials: bicycle inner tube (caoutchouc / natural rubber), 1930s; bicycle saddle (leather and metal fixture) 1930s/40s; bicycle fork (metal)1960/70s

see more of these works

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ce Qui Roule - That - Which - Rolls (Early forms of rollin' rocks)

a theater play in 3 acts for stage-- for and with bicycles

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ETANT DONNE - Jesus version

ETANT DONNE - Street corner version

ETANT DONNE - Bike machine version

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ETANT DONNE (bicycle machine), 2008

 

 

the bicycle artist

THE BICYCLE ARTIST - PERFORMANCE PIECE -- later on in december 2007

 

 

Don't steal my Mercedes Benz bicycle - 2006/07 Mercedes Benz bicycle plus parts the body touches made of bronze,

see also: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

 

 

Silenced Voices - Bicycling Istanbul's Topography of 21 Murdered Journalists, 2007

 

 

The HETEROMOBILE - an open source developing project: a hybrid bicycle/car ran with a PEDALISATOR

 

 

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ALFRED JARRY'S CALL OF NATURE.. - a little film 3 min

More on Alfred Jarry

 

 

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Use a Bicycle, (animation), 2008

 

bicycle quartering

Bicycle Quartering - a performance for Performa 07

 

 

 

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Basic Belgium - Bicycle Quartering, Brussels April 19, 2008

 

 

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Crossing Hangzhou Bay Bridge, China 2008

 

 

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Bicycling Les Champs-Elysées, Paris 2008

 

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this is a mixture of Bremer Stadmusikanten (town muscian, 19th Grimm fary tale) and Darwins evolutionary steps

- project for a 2D - Steel sculputre = called EVOLUTION (bicycle, car, dunkey, monkey)

 

the bicycle artist, 1924/2007

 

Bicycling from Karl-Marx-Allee through the Brandenburger Gate - Meditating Berlin 1989, 2007

 

Bicycling FIAT - The Ingotto Fiat Factory 1921 - 2007, Turin, 2007

 

Use a bicycle, 2006 put to work in Denver, Colorado. (for urbanists and politicians)

 

The Apprentice in the Sun, 2006 click to download hi res image

neon light on black plexi

(see works is after a small drawing by Marcel Duchamps from 1914)

 

The Apprentice in the Sun - Bicycling Bucharest, Bucharest, 2006

 

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the apprentice in the sun / drawings 2011

 

From the Lenin Monument, October Square, to Lenin Mausoleum, Red Square - Bicycling Moscow, 2007

 

going coming back

A Bold Line - Back and Forth - Bicycling Madison Avenue, New York 2006

 

Bicycling Flann O'Brien - On Housing, New York 2006

 

Bicycling Flann O'Brien - "It was the grip of a handlebar - her handlebar", New York 2006

 

From the Guggenheim to Moma - Bicycling two straight lines, New York 2006

 

From Vatican to Piazza della Repubblica with no return - Bicycling Roma, Rome 2006

 

Bicycling Broadway, New York, 2006

 

Use a bicycle / Vai in bicycletta- landing poll, 2005

Poles Apart Poles Together, 51.Venice Biennale, Venice

 

 

Bicycling on the Sunset Strip, Los Angeles 2006

 

Bicycling New Orleans, New Orleans 2006

 

Bicycling Hongkong, Hongkong 2005

 

Kai Tak International Airport, HONGKONG 2005

 

Bicycling Damascus, Damascus, Syria, 2004

 

Bicycling Tirana, Tirana, Albenia 2003

 

 

Bicycling Clocktower, New York 2002

 

 

Bicycling 51st street and 8th Avenue, 2001

 

 

Bicycling with a stick, New York 2002

 

 

Don't Steal My Mercedes_Benz Bicycle, 2007

(Mercedes Benz bicycle, Kryptonite Chain, porcelain chain, bronze chain)

 

Don't Steal My Puma Bicycle, 2007

(PUMA bicycle, Kryptonite Chain, porcelain chain, bronze chain)

 

lenin crash

coming soon: a re-enactment on film of this quasi-historic event

 

 

bicycles and terrror, news paintings

 

A PROPOS BICYCLES:

The bicycle is not only my unique vehicle of transportation but also my urban eyeglass - some extension of my visual and acoustic organs. As such it is a real social urban interface. The bicycle is also major aesthetic technology I keep trying to explore. Instead of retooling the bike, I twist and abuse traffic rules ((biased towards cars!) and the daily common use of these driving machines, peddalling against the grain, against traffic in order to create an event and a video, i.e. a new way of seeing the city also for others.

I'm a bicycle rider since early childhood. My first birthday present I remember was a bicycle. I have never stayed in a place for long without a bicycle. Here in NYC I own 3 bicycles - one for daily use, one as reserve (in case one breaks down) and one as a foldable pet for travels.

As an apprentice in the sun - and sometimes in the rain - I admit that a touch of danger comes as no surprise as does often desire, love and loss. The bicycle after all is as strange a machine as the city is an industriious factory with people bouncing.

I wish city planers could just convert 50 % of all street surfaces to bicycle use only. Sounds radical but it is feasable and advisable.

texts by Rainer Ganahl on bicycling and Simone Schimpf on me, RG as a bicyclist

ps: THEY JUST STOLE MY BICYCLE - IT WAS MY FAULT - I DIDNT' USE MY KRYPTONITE LOCK, May 2005, NY

 

Bicycle Fates - on going

 

After a bike incident, I had toget my bones scanned in an MRI. Isn't this a "Duchamp'ian machine?"

 

 

index

exhibitions

video

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, - an exhibiton based on the bicycle

texts by Rainer Ganahl on bicycling and Simone Schimpf on me, RG as a bicyclist

THE BICYCLE ARTIST - PERFORMANCE PIECE -- later on in december 2007

BICYCLE QUARTERING - PERFORMANCE PIECE - for Performa New York, 2007

The HETEROMOBILE - an open source developing project: a hybrid bicycle/car ran with a PEDALISATOR

perpetual motion food - logo

use a bicycle - logo

 

 

 

more BIKE STUFF ---- www.ganahl.info/useabicycle.html

 

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click for hi res