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		<title>HELP OUR BIKE COMMUNITY IN COPENHAGEN!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Bike Loves.
I received the following email from a collaborator who I am working with towards some performance opportunties to bring attention the the Climate in Copenhagen. I plan to be over there and am going to find a way to support this very amazing adventurous project. Let me know if you want to join [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Bike Loves.</p>
<p>I received the following email from a collaborator who I am working with towards some performance opportunties to bring attention the the Climate in Copenhagen. I plan to be over there and am going to find a way to support this very amazing adventurous project. Let me know if you want to join me or if you have any brainstorms to help!<br />
xo<br />
Larken</p>
<p>Dear friends</p>
<p>In July this year, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a<br />
UK based art activists’’ collective (www.labofii.net) was<br />
commissioned by the Copenhagen Centre for Contemporary Art  </p>
<p>( www.kunsthallennikolaj.dk/en/ ) to make a new piece of work for<br />
Rethink, ( www.rethinkclimate.org  ) an exhibition of “political” art  </p>
<p>during the December UN climate change summit. Last week the gallery<br />
pulled out claiming it could no longer continue to support the<br />
project for “practical reasons”.  In fact they were frightened that<br />
the project involved non-violent civil disobedience and that this </p>
<p>might be disapproved of by their funders. We feel that the December’s<br />
mobilisations in Copenhagen are a landmark in history, where trying<br />
to “play safe” is not a luxury we can afford. This was a political  </p>
<p>pulling out not a practical issue. We are writing to ask for your<br />
support so that despite the obstacles of cowardice the project can<br />
still go ahead.</p>
<p>The project Putting the fun between your legs: The Bike Bloc, is a  </p>
<p>collaboration between The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination<br />
and the UK Climate Camp ( www.climatecamp.org.uk). The idea is to<br />
design and build a new tool of creative resistance for the RECLAIM  </p>
<p>POWER mobilisations taking place in Copenhagen on the 16th of<br />
December 16th, a day of civil disobedience supported by over 200<br />
organisations many from the global south.(   www.climate-justice-<br />
action.org  ). Made from hundreds of recycled bikes, The Bike Bloc </p>
<p>will merge device of mass transportation and pedal powered resistance<br />
machine, postcapitalist bike gang and art bike carnival.</p>
<p>Bike hackers, artists, welders, climate campers and engineers will be<br />
working together to design and build The Bike Bloc across two cities:  </p>
<p>Bristol (Arnolfini Gallery 15th – 30th Nov, – as part of C-words<br />
exhibition &#8211; www.arnolfini.org.uk and somewhere in Copenhagen (4th-<br />
18th  Dec.) The trouble is we no longer have a space or support  </p>
<p>resources in Copenhagen, which with only 8 weeks to go puts us under<br />
immense pressure.</p>
<p>If you have any idea of places, organisations, or, of collectives<br />
that would be interested in hosting this project, and are prepared to  </p>
<p>walk the talk, or would like to be involved please contact us as soon<br />
as possible.</p>
<p>Yours<br />
John Jordan and Isa Fremeaux</p>
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