White Bikes
Join NVA & Central Station to create a crowd-sourced film documenting and celebrating the White Bike Ride out on 15th April. We’ll be collating stills, footage and tweets from the day to create a film that participants can share around the web.
We want you, the public, to shoot your own version of the ride out. And then to upload your films to our Vimeo group, your images to our White Bikes group or our Facebook page.
NVA are re-enacting the infamous Witte Fietsenplan (White Bike Plan) for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010. The original Witte Fietsenplan (White Bike plan) was an anarchic free transport programme in Amsterdam started by the Provos, the Dutch counter culture movement of the 1960’s. The initiative was the source inspiration for the (PUB) Public Use Bicycle systems which has been updated and ‘officially’ replicated in cities worldwide.
NVA’s White Bike Plan will celebrate the political and ecological drives behind the original action by providing 50 white bikes free for the GI festival audience to use to travel between venues. There will be a central drop-off point for bikes at the Glasgow International Festival Hub courtyard on 54 Miller St each night up to 9.30pm and other bike drop off points at other festival venues.
JOIN THE WHITE BIKE RIDE OUT! Central Station and NVA would like as many cyclists as possible to join a mass Ride Out to launch White Bikes on Thursday 15th April 2010. The White Bikes will ride en masse from Kelvingrove Park at 11:30am to George Square, where at 12.30 there will be an action and proclamation of the original manifesto. If you have your own two wheels, get on your bike and join the Ride Out at Kelvingrove Park Fountain at 11.30am. The ride will go on until around 1pm.
BE PART OF THE ARTWORK Central Station want 5 members to join the Ride Out on one of the 50 White Bikes. Be part of a GI Artwork re-enacting the Witte Fietsenplan. We’ll provide the tech to help you capture the day, from bike cams to old school polaroids. You just need to tell us what you'll do... Image credit Cor Jaring
Submission instructions 1. For a chance to Ride Out on a White Bike To win the chance to ride out on one of the 5 White Bikes, tell us why you should be one of the selected few and what you’ll do to help us to document the day. Email your submission & Central Station username to: hello@centralstation.com. Put “I want to ride a White Bike” in the subject heading. Deadline: midnight on the 11th April
2. To Join Us on the White Bike Ride Out Help us to make an impact and document the day by joining us on your own bike. Become a member of the White Bikes group on Central Station, fan us on the Central Station page on Facebook so we can keep you up to speed with developments. And sign up for the Ride Out here.
3. To Add Your Footage to the White Bike Film Come along with your bike on 15th April to take part in the Ride Out at 11:30am. Bring your video camera, mobile phone, bike cam - whatever you can get your hands on - and help us to document the day. We’ll need all video footage uploaded to a our Vimeo group fast as you can get it there. Pop images in our White Bikes group or on our Facebook page. Central Station will then edit your crowd-sourced footage and post a film on Central Station.
Everything you upload and we make will fall under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Creative Commons License.
This is your film, to be shared wherever you like. A documentation of the White Bike action, a call for action on cycling, a crowd-sourced artwork. Join us.
KEEP DOCUMENTING This is just the start. We’ll be following the White Bikes over the 3 weeks of the Glasgow International Festival of Art. We want to know where they journey to, whether you've spotted one, about any bike swaps that happen and so on.
