PONY EXPRESS X HICKEY HARDWARE COLLAB

Hickey Hardware recently teamed up with Pony Express - an experimental Live Art duo led by Ian Sinclair and Loren Kronemyer to create garments based on their live art performance "Abolish the Olympics".  A tongue in cheek take on the Olympics. 

"How do we reconcile our respect for professional athletes against our lack of faith in the IOC?… we take the piss out of the Olympics… that’s how."

Read more about the artwork below...

Within weeks of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, we pause briefly to consider: are the Olympics fucked?

Guilty of profligate tax-payer spending, legitimising dictators, inflaming nationalist sentiment, and exploiting both players and bystanders, it’s time to reconsider our allegiance to this bloated cultural spectacle.

In an attempt to exorcise our love-hate relationship with the tarnished event, Pony Express are holding their own bootleg Olympiad.  The gallery at CAT is transformed into a hand-made hyper-arena, where audiences can explore custom equipment and propaganda that exposes the unethical underbelly of international sport, and the growing protest movement to cancel the games forever.

Open to the public as an installation, this exhibition will also host a ticketed, multi-arts, multi-sport tournament over the course of three days.  As artistic athletes, Pony Express will face-off in a punishing, condensed variation of 33 summer sports: from archery to wrestling, opening ceremony to closing ceremony.  The artists act simultaneously as coaches, athletes, performers, spectators, and commentators, sparring with the beast of cultural boycott from the inside-out.

The Olympics are cancelled. Long Live the Olympics.

Abolish the Olympics was presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania and supported through Arts Tasmania.

Official Abolish The Olympics Team Uniforms by Hickey Hardware

Official Arena Audiovisual Design by Hosting

Arena Wrangler: Sophie Ambler

Pony Express is an experimental Live Art duo led by Ian Sinclair and Loren Kronemyer. Through a pandrogynous collaborative process, they work across media art, live art, transdisciplinary and cross-artform collaboration to create alternate realities exploring themes of adaptation, global weirding and the slow apocalypse. Pony express’ Ecosexual Bathhouse premiered at Next Wave Festival in 2016 and toured  to Liveworks Festival 2016; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art 2016; Dark MOFO 2017; Santarcangelo Festival (Italy) 2017; Forum of the Futuro (Portugal) 2017 and Interformat Symposium (Lithuania) 2018.

INTRODUCING OUR NEW PONY EXPRESS X HICKEY HARDWARE PRINT!

Our Pony Express Print is here in your fave cuts! 

Preorders are also live for some forthcoming releases and restocks... as we reduce waste by doing the Slow Fashion thing.

Limited qtys in each size as usual for the first drop so be quick if you love this one!

Shop the entire Pony Express x Hickey Hardware Collection here.