AEOLIAN RIDE Bridgeport, CT:
30 PERSON INFLATABLE-SUIT BIKE RIDE
Sponsored by HMA with fund from the Werth Family Foundation
and HCC Foundation in support of SweetPort.
FREE PUBLIC ART BIKE RIDE (see
more photos of this event)
Friday, May 30, 2009 Photos
by Jessica Findley
Aeolian Ride is a free, public art event where 30 people wear wind-inflated
suits
and ride their bikes through cities around the world. Aeolian Ride
seeks to excite,
delight and involve the rider as well as the passerby. The idea is
to create a fun,
public participatory art event that transforms the landscape of the
city. All 30
suits were handmade out of rip-stop nylon and easily inflate when
riding at a
slow pace. There are three suit shapes, a “bunny” a “bubble” and
a” drop”.
The first Aeolian Ride took place in New York (06.04.04). The ride
has traveled to
San Francisco, California joining the Bicycle Film Festival Parade
(10.07.04) and
for a longer ride starting in Golden Gate Park (10.09.04). On November
20th 2004
the Aeolian Ride went to Cape Town, South Africa, (09.10.05) in Los
Angeles,
and (03.11.06) Melbourne, Australia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, (09.10.06)
and in the
New York Dietch Art Parade (09.08.07) Milan,Italy (11.27.09)
This project
was created by Brooklyn based artist, Jessica Findley who
specializes in curious, contagious art tied to nature. To view her
other projects:
www.sonicribbon.com/portfolio/art.html
