By Cheryl dos Remedios
I’m super excited about all the great projects lined-up for aLIVe! This one-day exhibition will include work by Vaughn Bell, Clair Colquitt, Nicole Kistler, Alex Martin, Brian McAllister, Peter Reiquam, Vladimir Ryliski, Kristin Tollefson and Sustainable Ballard, with an opening ceremony by T’ilibshudub. Please join us!
If you want to participate, registration is due August 7. Participation is now free for individuals, thanks to funding from 4Culture. We’re looking for everything from poetry to prototypes; electronic, conceptual and built entries; as well as performance-based work. You can find a registration form here.
aLIVe is an opportunity for artists, inventors and community members to imagine a transportation system designed around the human body. The term “low impact” describes both the impact of a vehicle on a pedestrian, as well as the environmental impact. This way of thinking results in a huge range of public benefits, including increased mobility for transit and freight. A bicycle is a low impact vehicle, but what else can we imagine?
No time to submit an entry? That’s ok. Just join us as a spectator…
aLIVe – a Low Impact Vehicle exhibition
August 22, 2009, 10am – 3:30pm
Seward Park, 5895 Lake Washington Blvd. S, Seattle, WA 98118
Transit: For Seward Park, Metro Busses 32 and 39
more info: www.greatcity.org
Attendees are encouraged to use less environmentally harmful transportation choices to arrive at the event such as transit, carpools, vanpools, bicycling and walking. Parking will be limited.
Guest blogger Cheryl dos Remedios is an artist, civic activist and public art administrator. She believes that it is essential for artists to be among the decision makers at this critical junction in human history. As natural resources become increasingly scarce, it is our cultural resources that will restore us to a holistic quality of life.
top: All-Terrain, remote-control living wall, Nicole Kistler, copyright 2009 (photo: Mike McGinn)
bottom: Walk and Roll, concept drawing, Peter Reiquam, copyright 2009
