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bicycles – GILLIAN DYKEMAN https://www.gilliandykeman.com art Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:59:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/www.gilliandykeman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/flavi-g.jpg?fit=16%2C16&ssl=1 bicycles – GILLIAN DYKEMAN https://www.gilliandykeman.com 32 32 48352241 REVOLUTION REVOLUTION https://www.gilliandykeman.com/archives/874 Mon, 03 Sep 2018 12:23:06 +0000 http://www.gilliandykeman.com/?p=874

Revolution Revolution

Revolution Revolution is performance and video work by Gillian Dykeman that activates the latent radical potential of the human energy amassed through engaging fitness. Operating as a home stationary bike workout, Revolution Revolution delivers fitness instruction in tandem with revolutionary rhetoric. Utopia is latent within the everyday, so how do we move from sliding over its radical possibilities and instead find a way to activate it? What is the energy of revolution? How do we better engineer our energetic outputs to formulate collective ways of being out of a culture that glorifies individualism …to radically reimagine what it is we’re doing with our lives?  Our life-force? Our love? See more on Vimeo and HERE

Revolution Revolution has been presented over dozen times as either a exercise-bike or aerobics based performance both live and as video installations. The performances include fitness instruction and revolutionary rhetoric, usually tailored to a given location or exhibition theme. Below is the documentation from the development and presentation of this work at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

photo credit Jonathan Igharus

I did an independent residency in November and December of 2017 at the Banff Centre, where I developed Revolution Revolution work substantially. I made a large backdrop painting 7′ x 12′ for the video version of this work.  It’s a watercolour on canvas. At this time, the major focus of my revolutionary rhetoric was on the needs of contemporary workers; the Precariat in particular.

Thanks again to artsnb.

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REVOLUTION REVOLUTION https://www.gilliandykeman.com/archives/843 Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:11:55 +0000 http://www.gilliandykeman.com/?p=843

REVOLUTION REVOLUTION harnesses the amazing energies generated by a roomful of people focusing together on a demanding task. This performance activates the latent radical potential of the human energy amassed through engaging fitness. Operating as a stationary bike workout and fitness movement (complete with its own posters, costumes, and YouTube home fitness videos), Revolution Revolution delivers fitness instruction in tandem with revolutionary rhetoric. Utopia is latent within the everyday, so how do we move from sliding over its radical possibilities and instead find a way to activate it? What is the energy of revolution? How do we better engineer our energetic outputs to formulate collective ways of being out of a culture that glorifies individualism …to radically reimagine what it is we’re doing with our lives?  Our life-force? Our love? 

 Thanks so much to artsnb for supporting this new project.

I had an exhibition of this work at Saint Mary’s University Gallery in the summer of 2017. It was shown in tandem with AgitProp: Soviet Propaganda 1905-1945; an exhibition of Soviet Poster Art.

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BIKE LOVE https://www.gilliandykeman.com/archives/132 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:38:53 +0000 http://www.gilliandykeman.com/?p=132 On the day of the Go North! festival, I had a bicycle wash in front of the Nauss bike shop in North End Halifax.  In exchange for writing the stories of their first real bike love, I cleaned the bikes of participants who happened by. I created swag (flags, patches, spoke cards, art fresheners) and gave them away to everyone who shared their story, and some who just liked the swag. Over 50 people wrote down their bike love story in the notebooks provided. The stories may be found in a free zine entitled “Halifax Bike Love” now being distributed.

i'm cleaning bicycles, aaron is writing stories

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