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Subject: Fwd: Putting the fun between your legs: The Bike Bloc,

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> Dear friends
>
> In July this year, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a
> UK based art activists’’ collective (www.labofii.net) was
> commissioned by the Copenhagen Centre for Contemporary Art (
www.kunsthallennikolaj.dk/en/
>  ) to make a new piece of work for Rethink,
> ( www.rethinkclimate.org  ) an exhibition of “political” art during
> the December UN climate change summit. Last week the gallery pulled
> out claiming it could no longer continue to support the project for
> “practical reasons”.  In fact they were frightened that the project
> involved non-violent civil disobedience and that this might be
> disapproved of by their funders. We feel that the December’s
> mobilisations in Copenhagen are a landmark in history, where trying
> to “play safe” is not a luxury we can afford. This was a political
> pulling out not a practical issue. We are writing to ask for your
> support so that despite the obstacles of cowardice the project can
> still go ahead.
>
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> The project Putting the fun between your legs: The Bike Bloc, is a
> collaboration between The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
> and the UK Climate Camp ( www.climatecamp.org.uk). The idea is to
> design and build a new tool of creative resistance for the RECLAIM
> POWER mobilisations taking place in Copenhagen on the 16th of
> December 16th, a day of civil disobedience supported by over 200
> organisations many from the global south.(   www.climate-justice-action.org
>   ). Made from hundreds of recycled bikes, The Bike Bloc will merge
> device of mass transportation and pedal powered resistance machine,
> postcapitalist bike gang and art bike carnival.
>
> Bike hackers, artists, welders, climate campers and engineers will
> be working together to design and build The Bike Bloc across two
> cities: Bristol (Arnolfini Gallery 15th – 30th Nov, – as part of C-
> words exhibition - www.arnolfini.org.uk and somewhere in Copenhagen
> (4th- 18th  Dec.) The trouble is we no longer have a space or
> support resources in Copenhagen, which with only 8 weeks to go puts
> us under immense pressure.
>
> If you have any idea of places, organisations, or, of collectives
> that would be interested in hosting this project, and are prepared
> to walk the talk, or would like to be involved please contact us as
> soon as possible.
>
>
> Yours
> John Jordan and Isa Fremeaux
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