CAR creates, holds, and publishes projects centred around art, research, and cycling.
CAR uses cycling as a radical tool for exploration and experimentation within art as moving by (bi)cycle enables us to experience the world at different speed, duration, and scale; connecting us to the land and each other.
By presenting these alternative ways of movement that are intentionally slow, vulnerable, situated, and connected, CAR aims to contribute in a small way to better identifying and ultimately rejecting the divisive social and political structures that enclose us.
Read the full CAR Manifest →
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UPDATES
CAR as a collective currently consists of three individuals: Rosa van Walbeek, Myles Merckel, and James Crossley.
We are still defining our form, structure, and membership, with the process open for participation and application.
Read the CAR Structure → & apply to be involved.
CAR SERVICES
As a artistic collective we also offer our experience, skills, and approach, as a service for commission and collaboration. Through guided workshops, cyclo-ethnographic research, and other formats, we can work with you.
ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
MIDDLE GROUND
A roaming art residency series on a cargo bike. Its intention in rolling artists out of cities is to connect and reclaim in a society where binary politics and geographies are cut through by anger, fear, and motorways.
ARTISTIC RESEARCH TRAJECTORY
TEMPORAL MAPPING
A cycling, art, & research project questioning the (non)objectivity and temporal visualisation of maps through a series of events, performative actions and artistic outcomes creating new ways of representing the earth and its temporal dimensions.
ARTISTIC RESEARCH TRAJECTORY
LAND WITH NO SPACE: Seeking, Making, Taking Inbetweens
A cycling, art, & research project based around a cycling route that explores the concept of autonomy and freedom in a land that considers itself (neo)liberal, but practices ultra-high levels of state oversight and land management.
ARTISTIC RESEARCH TRAJECTORY
FROM 0
A self initiated, ultra-distance bike ride closely tracing the physical grid lines that are projected onto the man-made land of the Noordoostpolder. The route slips in between the patchwork landscape of intense agriculture and human planning that was raised from the sea less than 100 years ago.