PULSE's signature program of large-scale sculptures, installations and performances features works throughout the main building, garden and plaza areas. The program offers exhibitors and independent artists alike an opportunity to present works that are otherwise incompatible with a traditional booth layout such as performances, installations, or large-scale works. Among the artists whose sculptures and installations have been presented in the past are Villareal, R. Luke DuBois, Paul Villinksi, and Clifton Childree.

PULSE MIAMI 2010 PROJECTS

Calder Brannock
CAMPER CONTEMPORARY

Camper Contemporary is a mobile gallery created and curated by Calder Brannock. It is a fully functional art gallery set up inside an altered 1967 Yellowstone camper.  Camper Contemporary gallery poses a solution for many problems a gallery faces in the modern art market. It allows the gallerist to showcase work in a clean controlled gallery environment without being tethered to rents or a geographic location. The mobile gallery model maintains a physical space where work can be displayed with all the benefits and gravitas of a traditional gallery while easily reaching collectors at art fairs and other large art markets.

Skylar Fein
Harsh, 2009
Wood, latex, acrylic, light kit, 5' x 16'
Courtesy of Jonathan Ferrera

Harsh is a homage by Skylar Fein to the most prolific graffiti artist on the Gulf Coast. His largest pieces loom over destroyed areas of New Orleans, the single word making a concise and eloquent summation of the scenery. This piece was shown at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 2009. Installed in a giant picture window, it broadcast the Harsh message to City Park and the surrounding neighborhood twenty-four hours a day.

Christy Gast
Untitled (Empty Signifiers) 2010
Wood, textile, tar, pigment, found objects, audio
Courtesy of Gallery Diet

Christy Gast's pavilion-like installation of signposts and bunting points toward a landscape or event that is never quite revealed. The pieces are made in part with objects the artist collected on recent trips around Lake Okeechobee, Florida's inland sea.

Orly Genger
Beefcakes, 2010
(site specific installation for PULSE Miami)
Seven sculptures, dimensions variable
Nylon climbing rope with latex paint
Courtesy of Larissa Goldston Gallery

Utilizing a self-invented knotting technique, having its roots in crochet, Genger creates seven "stacks" ranging in size.  She will install the pieces as monolithic structures and through a performative act will topple them. The result will be a series of sculptures that resemble fallen columns but function as chaise lounges.  As rectilinear elements they are confrontational, but when toppled they become recumbent forms drawing associations to the human body, beckoning viewers to touch and interact with the work.

Shannon Gillen & Guests
WALL
30 Minutes
Music by Brian Whitman
Thursday, December 2, 12pm, 12:30pm, 2pm, 2:30pm
Friday, December 3, 12pm, 12;30pm, 2pm, 2:30pm
Saturday, December 4, 12pm, 12;30pm, 2pm, 2:30pm
Sunday, December 5, 12pm

WALL contends with the body’s condition in pressurized states and explores the physical and psychological relationships a person experiences with the plane of a wall. Imagining the body as a magnetized vessel existing within the confines of a magnetized terrain, the performers will experience directional influence; their bodies will fold, smash and levitate as though guided by an outside force. As the performers succumb to pressure, spatial and narrative relationships take shape in orbit.

Leonardogillesfleur
Irreconcilable Differences 3, FITO, 2006-10
Transformed Fiat 600 and blueprint. Edition variée of 3
Courtesy of Catherine Clark Gallery

Irreconcilable Differences 3, FITO, is made from the Fiat 60-a car that was made in Argentina and that is a bit different from the perhaps more well-known Italian-made, Fiat 500. The 600 was the very first car many teenagers were driving when I was growing up in Buenos Aires. The car was very popular with youth, particularly during the 1970s and 80s because it was extremely affordable compared with any other car on the market at that time. It was the car of choice for car-lover-transformer-people who in Argentina we call pisteros.The artistic entity "leonardogillesfleur" is the resulting alliance of two artists, Leonardo Giacomuzzo and Gilles-fleur Boutry. 

OK Mountain
Trailer, 2010
Mixed Media, 14 x 15 x 10ft
Courtesy of FREIGHT + VOLUME

With Trailer, 2010, Okay Mountain examines the tradition of customization when applied to automobiles and barbecue pit trailers. Often carried out within limited means, customization aims to improve performance and functionality, while adding personalized style. The ten-artist collective explores the cross cultural aspects of this practice with emphasis on a desire common to many customization practitioners; to out perform predecessors and push the envelope in spite of consequence and frequently at the expense of practicality.

Mike Tuck
Moore-ish, 2010
PVC fabric, 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 m.
Courtesy of Patrick Heide Contemporary Art

The installation by British artist Mike Tuck is a life size replica of Henry Moore's Oval and Points: the artist playfully parodies the weighty, bulbous sculptures typical of iconic Moores.  Specifically realized for Pulse Miami, the work by the recent Slade graduate is part of a series of inflatable pieces that aim to examine issues of mimicking and authorship within modernist sculpture.

Michael Waugh
Decline and Fall (of a performance artist)
Saturday, December 4, 11AM-7PM, 2010
Courtesy of Schroeder Romero & Shredder

Over the course of an eight-hour work day, Michael Waugh will read - without pause for eating or bathroom breaks - selected chapters from Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Having already copied significant sections of the book by hand into a drawing (also on display at PULSE in the booth of Schroeder Romero & Shredder), this performance puts front and center the endurance, patience, and political savvy that run through all of the artist's work.

Heeseop Yoon
Still-Life, 2010
Dimensions varies
Black masking tape on mylar
Courtesy of Mary Ryan Gallery

Drawing with masking tape and mylar, Heeseop Yoon recreates cluttered spaces,
closets, basements, workshops and storage areas—working and reworking the images as her perception of the scene changes. After photographing the space, Yoon draws freehand, correcting “mistakes” by drawing over her existing lines without erasing.  The result is a composition that captures the evolution of Yoon’s consciousness as she works: memory and perception conspire to depict multiple moments and multiple impressions simultaneously.

Selections from the Artist Pension Trust® Collection of New Media

Artist Pension Trust® (APT) and PULSE Miami are pleased to present a selection of new media works from the APT Collection. The selected artists emply animation and performance in their video work to create narratives of parody, fantasy, and characterization. Artists include Brian Alfred, Ezra Johnson, Kate Gilmore, Tommy Hartung, and Jen liu among others. Artist Pension Trust® (APT) is a patented long-term financial planning program created for artists with trusts in Beijing, Berlin, Dubai, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, and New York. Centered on a highly diversified portfolio of artworks, the APT model is built on the established financial investment practice of “risk diversification” by allowing for a select group of up to 250 artists to participate in their collective commercial success. 72% of every sale goes back to the artists.