Laura Curry: CITA EN BICI / BIKE DATE
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LAURA CURRY, CITA EN BICI / BIKE DATE
From an earnest conversation while biking, choreographer and social practice artist Laura Curry has turned a seemingly simple research process, started in 2013 in South and North American cities, into a sisterhood of mothers, daughters, aunties, grandmas, and fem/trans individuals who are also cyclists. Share stories while on a bike ride with Laura on the Empire State Trail or your local neighborhood route. In partnership with Tivoli Free Library.
Opening Day activities at Kaatsbaan included a bike maintenance workshop with Laura Curry, wampum belt art making with Vickie Ramirez, Ty Defoe, and Jeanette Harrison, and lacrosse stick handling clinic with Bard College Women’s Lacrosse team.
September 4 – Cita en Bici / Bike Date at Tivoli Free Library. Laura shared her artistic research and hands on advice for simple bike maintenance.
Laura Curry is an artist, educator, and researcher focusing on environmental and social justice through a feminist, queer perspective. Her practice includes collaboration, critical pedagogy, installation, media production, activism, performance, and writing. Curry holds an MFA in Media Art Production from SUNY Buffalo, is a published member of the Collective EnJust Network for environmental justice, Kiel Germany, and the American Association of Geographers.
Curry moves across social and political borders, working predominantly in the US and Mexico, where she presents her art, and teaches critical pedagogy at universities and research institutions. Her work has been exhibited at Queens Museum, DOCUMENTA 13, Yes We Cannibal (Baton Rouge), ISEA (Albuquerque), On the Boards and Hugo House (Seattle), PICA’s TBA Festival (Portland), The Southern Theater (Minneapolis), ODC Theater (San Francisco), Bauhaus-Universität (Weimar), and in Mexico at The Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology (Michoacan), and Artes del Tecnológico de Monterrey, NoAutomatico, and LAB Nuevo Leon (Monterrey).