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Jul 21, 2011
BIKE MAG ISSUE 1 — CONTRIBUTORS
MIKE BADGER
Ghost Dance: The chief figure in the movement was the prophet of peace: Jack Wilson, known as Wovoka among the Paiute. He prophesied a peaceful end to white American expansion while preaching goals of clean living, an honest life, and cross-cultural cooperation by Native Americans. Practice of the Ghost Dance movement was believed to have contributed to Lakota resistance. In the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, US Army forces killed at least 153 Lakota Sioux. The Sioux variation on the Ghost Dance tended towards millenarianism an innovation that distinguished the Sioux interpretation from Jack Wilson’s original teachings. The Caddo Nation still practices the Ghost Dance today.
Mike Badger works in Liverpool, UK.
JON BARRACLOUGH
BEWARE; things are always useful.
In a few months time I will have been collecting things for 54 years. Somewhere along the way I noticed that there’s nearly always a reason for collecting things although the reason is sometimes fleeting or temporary. Some things are more or less inert in themselves like an international mains power adaptor kit. They will be unchanged after many years. Other things, like say a potato, will grow and sprout or shrivel and dry up.
Soon you have lots of things that are apparently useless – at the moment. For me, the fun starts again and again because re-purposing things and juxtaposing or placing things in new contexts has become an essential aid to my creative process.
Jon Barraclough works in Liverpool, UK.
MILO BRENNAN
It is a day for making everything visible. Like a fresh box of special edition Neapolitan Reeboks Brennan gets rid of the tint in your sunglasses, tidies around a little and makes everything clear. Whether it is to simply see and record the broken remnants of a dustpan glistening on a dirty floor to Sterling board canned like corned beef there is a constant upkeep, a physical amendment. Through an organized consideration his work transforms the most ordinary of matters into a celebrity meatloaf that stumbles over its material form.
Copyright Sarah Wilton, 2011
Milo Brennan works in Bristol, UK.
MIKE CARNEY
It’s difficult to define exactly what I’m interested in and what catches my eye. We’re living in an age of indentikit cities and chain stores where everything is the same wherever we go. I like the element of fate, of not knowing what you’re going to find on a visit to a junk shop or charity store – holding houses for the unloved, unwanted and unnecessary relics and curios of our times.
The reptile image adorning the cover of Bike Mag issue 1 is from a book entitled ‘Introducing Dragons’ found in a junk shop near Deptford, London. I find the expressions on the creatures faces fascinating and the 1950s black and white photography is beautifully executed.
Mike Carney works in Liverpool, UK.
NOEL CLUEIT
Recent works explore a grammar between objects, between the readymade and handmade exploring representation, authorship and reproduction. Through sampling ready-mades I aim to explore our unaware attachment to symbols, icons and compositions exploring the shifts of value & taste within contemporary culture. DIY store objects that interrogate minimalism, a photocopied image that resembles a confused facial expression or altering record sleeves, commercial objects that riff between post-painterly abstraction and the purely decorative – dumbed modernish objects.
Noel Clueit works in Manchester, UK.
KEVIN HUNT
Kevin Hunt constructs sculpture utilising the redundant; particularly furniture which is reconfigured into linear and increasingly minimal works that often balance or are propped precariously. Placed in fragile equilibrium, these structures are repeatedly undermined further through transformative processes such as burning, resulting in darkly monolithic objects, mutably teetering on the edges of two and three dimensions. By irreversibly altering these things and simultaneously raising their status, the work attempts to question what it is to be an object in the world and how these objects in turn survive their transition into sculpture.
Kevin Hunt works in Liverpool, UK.
NICKI McCUBBING
Nicki McCubbing appropriates ‘low culture’ objects bought from a variety of cheap shops, or often found on the street across Britain to create unsettling yet familiar sculpture and installations. Humour and playfulness are used to mask a dark underbelly and her work is designed to appeal to children as well as adults. The materials used also reflect this; cheap brightly coloured objects that are bought in poor, often troubled areas in Britain.
Nicki McKubbing works in Liverpool, UK.
RICHARD PROFFITT
Richard Proffitt’s work is inspired by and references spaghetti westerns, ghost towns, American sub-culture, anthropology, ancient civilizations, travellers, den making, folklore and urban myth. These subjects become intertwined and their meaning mangled, producing work that is absurd, funny, dark and mysterious. The work will often become realised as make-shift ceremonial relics or ritualistic hang-outs.
Richard Proffitt works in Liverpool, UK
LINNY VENABLES
CANDY CIGARETTES AND CIGARS, DOUBLE FEATURES, REVERSIBLE COATS, STRETCHPANTS, CLOCK RADIOS, TWO WAY MIRRORS, DISPOSABLE LIGHTERS, SIX PACKS, MOBILE HOMES, DRIVE THRU’S, WALKMEN, ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS, PRE RECORDED MESSAGES, FOUR CHEESE PIZZAS, FOOD PROCESSORS AND WORD PROCESSORS, WEAR-DATED CARPETS, DISPOSABLE CAMERAS, MODULAR FURNITURE, REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEMS, MINITURE GOLF, ASTRO TURF, REVOLVING DOORS, CORK BOARDS, RING-PULL CANS, TWIST-OFF TOPS, VACUUM-PACKED SNACKS, STYLING MOUSSE, DRAW-BRIDGES, NINTENDO.
Linny Venables’ work centres on the playful transformation of exhausted materials through ascribing them a new status being absurd, vacuous or oblique. By incorporating such commonplace objects she aims to liberate them from the drudgery of service and openly flout the conventional, predictable, earth-bound solidity of normal objecthood.
Linny Venables works in Liverpool, UK.
SAM VENABLES
Sam Venables is an artist and curator working and living in Liverpool. Her interests are held in many divisions including Typography, A-Z Lists, Jan Terri. Sneakers, Marker Pens and Slang. Sam is also a current director of artist led studio and gallery space The Royal Standard, Liverpool.
Recent exhibitions include: ‘Parts Unknown’, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh. ‘BAMBAMBAM’, WCS, Liverpool. ‘Follow-ed (after hokusai)’, Winchester Gallery, Winchester. ‘KrimsKrams’, Deptford X, London. ‘Agitprop!’ Project Space 11, Plymouth. ‘Stardust Boogie Woogie’, Monika Bobinska Gallery, London. ‘Global Studio’, Bluecoat, Liverpool.
Sam Venables works in Liverpool, UK.
ALAN WILLIAMS
I consider myself an artist and illustrator who works in a number of different disciplines including sculpture, image making, installation, video and sound. I get inspiration from most things in life and try to incorporate this somehow in my work. I aim to communicate certain ideas surrounding media, society, sex and ego. A strategic emphasis in producing the work is not entirely placed on the transmission of information, but rather on how meaning is perceived; often meaning is displaced or circumstances are re-contextualised through memory, recognition, and confusion. Hopefully I can create some kind of visual language with the audience, challenging them to unlock their own meaning or relationship with the work.
Alan Williams works in Liverpool, UK.
Jul 13, 2011
BIKE MAG OFFICIAL LAUNCH PARTY
Join us for the launch of the mysterious BIKE MAG magazine.
Friday 22 July 6–9pm (with a possible late night takeover)
Cafe Tabac, Bold Street, Liverpool, L1 4JA. United Kingdom.
Published and designed by Team Bike Mag (Mike Carney, Richard Proffitt, Linny Venables and Sam Venables) in Liverpool, UK, BIKE MAG is ‘a collection of reference points’. Issue 1 contains uncredited contributions by artists and creative types Mike Badger, Jon Barraclough, Milo Brennan, Mike Carney, Noel Clueit, Kevin Hunt, Nicki McCubbing, Richard Proffitt, Linny Venables, Sam Venables and Alan Williams.
Free copies of BIKE MAG will be available on the night plus visuals by BIKE MAG contributor Alan Williams and sweet beets from official BIKE MAG DJ Scott Spencer.
http://issuu.com/mikecarney/docs/www.bikemag.tumblr.com
BIKE MAG – more than just a faceless blog.
Team Bike Mag are available for art direction duties and exhibitions.
For more info and to order copies of BIKE MAG connect with us at bike_mag@yahoo.com
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