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Cycle Craft
Occupying Craft Victoria:
September 11 & 13, 2008
Mick Peel is a collaborator in an Urban Interior occupation at Craft Victoria (opens in new window) 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne CBD.
Designing: Making: Customising: Crafting: The Cycle Craft Workshop combines the making and exhibition of artefact with event to explore the relationship between fashion, bicycles, the city, the urban cyclist and the hand crafted. Designer, academic and craftsperson Mick Peel will occupies Craft Victoria for two days only with the Cycle Craft Workshop featuring the display of several reclaimed and customised single speed fixed gear bicycles. The bicycles, designed and collaboratively made by Mick Peel, feature individually crafted soft components and accessories. In the space at Craft Victoria, Mick is working on his next bike projects including soft accessories and coordinated cycling apparel. Current and prospective cyclists are invited to drop-in to the space with or without their bike to share ideas of bicycle and component customisation.
Urban Interior Occupation at Craft Victoria
09 to 20 September, 2008
Day and night. Inside and outside. Gallery spaces and surroundings become research laboratory experimenting with spatial and temporal dimensions of the inhabited, urban environment. Acts of crafting, performances, sound, air, smell, thoughts, image, discussions, presentationsÍž redistributing and enfolding outside and insides, individuals and collectives.
Urban interior is a creative research group based at RMIT university composed of individuals working in a range of practices including fashion, sound, interior design, architecture, industrial design and art. As a collective, individual research trajectories cover a breadth of practices, scales and concerns from the intimacy of bodies to events within the public realm. Suzie Attiwill, Mick Douglas, Michael Fowler, Robyn Healy, Rochus Urban Hinkel, Roger Kemp, Mick Peel, Malte Wagenfeld, collaborators (Ramesh Ayyar, Ian de Gruchy, Cultural Transports Collective, Frances Burke Centre (RMIT Design Archives), Meg Mundell, Eugene Ugetti, Tristram Williams) & U.
Urban Interior is part of the Customising Space research stream at RMIT Design Research Institute. This project is supported by RMIT’s Design Research Institute and the School of Architecture and Design’s Research Committee.
For occupation details visit the Urban Interior website (opens in new window).