Laura Curry: CITA EN BICI / BIKE DATE

Photo courtesy of artist

LAURA CURRY, CITA EN BICI / BIKE DATE
Book directly with the artist onsite during the festival, August 29–September 12
bikedateproject@gmail.com

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.

August 29, 11 AM - 12:30 PM– Opening Day activities at Kaatsbaan include 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. Bring your bike/recommended gear (listed below), friends, and family. All are welcome!

September 4, 5 PM - 6 PM – Learn about Cita en Bici / Bike Date. Laura will share her artistic research and hands on advice for simple bike maintenance. Meet at Tivoli Free Library with or without your bike/recommended gear (listed below):

  • Bike, helmet, lock.

  • If you need chain cleaned: grease rag - one or two without nap (don't want loose fibers or threads getting into chain), old toothbrush, and bike chain lube - this can be found in any bike shop (Laura uses Tri-Flow Superior Lube).

  • Allen wrench set (some will be available on site to borrow). 

  • If you need a new tire/tube: set of tire levers, tube that fits your tire (make sure you know if your tubes are Presta or Schrader), and tire pump.

  • Copy (printed or digital) of your roadway.

  • Extra credit:

    • Copy (printed or digital) of your cycling planning policy, framework, hierarchy - what mode of transport privileges what, and if that changes, etc.

    • What are the stated responsibilities of the cyclist while on the road? This information can generally be found online in city or county transportation agency websites.

    • Who are your transportation representatives?  Do you know the budget and how they spend it?

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).

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park