Room One: The Bike Bloc

Inspired by climate activism and grassroots protest movements, the space uses sound, obstruction and participation to recreate the energy of public action.

“The bicycle became nothing less than a freedom machine, a tool for radical, creative resistance”

They used Copenhagen’s most plentiful and recyclable resource, discarded bikes, and reverse engineer them into machines of creative resistance.

A large collective of bike hackers, welders, artists, activists, designers, mechanics, and general enthusiasts began working together for a week in Bristol and another week in Copenhagen to make it happen.

Room Concept

Bike Bloc aims to create anarchy and disruption to bring attention to global matters.

The Bike Bloc room aims to recreate the noise, the confusion and the excitement of the protest. 

It’s a circus, an art project in disguise. Multiple happenings all at once around the same city you don’t know where to go first, where to look first or what you’re going to see when you get there.

Probably the most intense of all the sensory rooms.
It uses the most technology to match and recreate the atmosphere of the demonstration, which had its own soundtrack and a five-channel pirate radio station they built on a specially constructed double bike.

All the bicycles had different ways to receive and playback the radio channels and the sound work created especially for the route.

The Bike Bloc room shows actual footage across multiple screens of the demonstrations which took place in Copenhagen. 

The sound also uses audio from the time; distorted voices coming from loud-hailers, shouting and chanting and the sounds of police presence along with the pirate radio broadcasts.

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