Protest Bike Paris
2016
Chopper bike, megaphones, sound, flags, mixed media
Installation view at Mostyn, Llandudno, UK
Protest Bike Paris
2017
Chopper bike, megaphones, sound, flags, mixed media
Actions promoted by Kunsthaus Zürich
Protest Bike Paris
2017
Chopper bike, megaphones, sound, flags, mixed media
Installation view at Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerpen
Protest Bike, Paris
2016
HD Video, sound, color, 2’: 39”
Stills from video
Protest Bike Dresden
2018
Chopper bike, megaphones, sound, flags, LED lights, mixed media
Installation view at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Photo by N. Miguletz
Protest Bike
Sculpture, Video
2016 – 2018
Protest Bike is conceived as both a sculpture and a public intervention, launched in Paris in 2016. Voicing ‘the complaint’ is the focus of the project, as a universal phenomenon that could be organized in any city. Citizens are welcome to use the bike for personal or choral public protest without cultural or thematic limit, an open platform offering alternative forms of public demonstration and action. Any slogan or lament can be shouted, declaimed or simply recounted while cycling on the Protest Bike also understood as an act of physical effort that underlines the participant’s will to express themselves.
Protest Bike, Dresden
2018
In 2017, Marinella Senatore won the International Art Grant from The Foundation of Arts and Music for Dresden, Germany for a six-month artist residency in the city. Dresden is actually the site of some of the biggest gatherings of Nazis in post-War Germany, in contrast to other cities of the country.
With the emergence of the far right movement, crowds appear marching through Dresden chanting racist slogans the artist experienced against, left wing movement, cultural institutions, projects or community centers.