BIkefest is a contemporary celebration of the culture of bike riding. We exist to provoke a change in the way people perceive bike riding through a festival of art, design and contemporary culture. We aim to make bike riding desirable in order to create a city where bikes are a part of everyday life. Ambiguous Horse, along with a volunteer committee, has initiated and produces Bikefest. We want to engage in new partnerships that expand the reach of where we find bike culture. Please get in touch if you would like to get involved!
Ambiguous Horse was contracted by Craft Victoria in March 2009 for 12 months to manage the implementation of the New Craft Made in Victoria project. Funded by Arts Victoria, the initiative is designed to create new business opportunities for the Craft Victoria membership and provide a product development service for retail, hospitality and tourism businesses. View some products generated through the contract.
Having a special fondness for any organisation that provides support and opportunity to creative people, it is our pleasure to be working with local gallery and jewellers workshop, Pieces of Eight. Showcasing some of Australia’s most exciting contemporary jewellers, the gallery provides one of Melbourne’s best reasons for catching the 112. Co-ordinating publicity for this amazing destination for jewellery lovers is as simple as advising you all to go. Soon.
The Bicycle Film Festival was initiated by Brendt Barbur in New York City in 2000. Having been hit by a bus while riding his bicycle, Barbur decided to turn his negative experience into a positive one and create a celebration of bike culture. Ambiguous Horse produced the Melbourne edition of the BFF from 2007 - 2009, seeing over an event that doubled its attendance every year.
From skateboarding to tagging, hip hop to clubbing to underground art, URBANology brings together creative practices that hover just outside the radar of the established art world. Staged at Arts House, the program will feature artforms including contemporary dance, performance, break dancing, hip hop, Le Parkour, skateboarding and flatland BMX. All boast local practitioners of urban artforms at the top of their game, internationally recognised as pioneers in their field. Ambiguous Horse is proud to be helping URBANology give expression to the melting pot of cultures, movements and adaptation of international forms that our city allows.
Having been well and truly sucked in to the excitement of So You Think You Can Dance (who doesn’t love to scream at the television on a Sunday night?) we are more than pleased to be working as part of the team for the Australian Dance Awards. The Awards are being staged in this fine city for 2008, 2009 and the eerily futuristic sounding 2010. We’ve been helping out Ausdance Victoria on securing sponsors for the dance industries Night of Nights, and look forward to an amazing event. Visit the event website to find out more.
Ambiguous Horse revisited its partnership with the National Design Centre in 2007 to plan and deliver events in the Melbourne Design Festival. The major project managed was Down to Earth, an exhibition of outdoor landscapes that use little or no water. Landscape Architects and Environmental Artists creates beautiful landscapes on the sloping grasses of Birrarung Marr. View images from the festival.
What would you do if a performer gave you $500 and said you could keep it? Sara Juli’s The Money Conversation does just that. Direct from New York, Ambiguous Horse will present the show in September. The one-woman show is all about money - what it means, how much is enough and whether you would take it from a stranger.
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The Ideas Catalogue is the brainchild of Melbourne contemporary artist Gabrielle de Vietri. It is a book in which ideas are up for sale. The first issue, launched in September 2005, was created as an output for the ideas left over from the art practice of the catalogue’s founding editor, Gabrielle de Vietri.
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In January 2007 Ambiguous Horse was contracted by Arts House to manage the foyer refurbishment at the North Melbourne Town Hall. Together with Moth Design and Studio Organic, a contemporary feel was added to the into the heritage listed building, while not interfering with with the many layers of refurbishment that had gone before.
View photos of the refurbishment. Find out more »
