PULSE Art Fair's signature Pulse Projects program is committed to the presentation and promotion of audience-engaging large-scale sculptures, installations and performances. Pulse Projects is part of our continuing mission to link an international roster of premier contemporary galleries and artists with local cultural institutions, communities and audiences. Among the artists whose sculptures and installations have been presented in the past are Ben Wolf, Desi Santiago, Orly Genger, Christy Gast, Shannon Gillen & Guests, Leo Villareal, R. Luke DuBois, Paul Villinksi, and Clifton Childree.
Within the Metropolitan Pavilion, exhibitors, non-profit organizations, and independent artists have a unique opportunity to present works that are otherwise incompatible with a standard booth layout. Pulse Projects enables the exploration of artistic practice within an art fair context and exposure to a wider public audience.
Each edition of PULSE Art Fair focuses on the hosting city and its cultural assets.
PULSE NEW YORK 2012 SPECIAL PROJECTS
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SHANNON GILLEN & GUESTS
BOTLEK
15 Minute cycles
Found sound with excerpts by Toshuba
Thursday - Friday, May 3 - 4
10am / 10:30am /11am/11:30am/12pm
Saturday, May 5
12:30pm/1pm/1:30pm
BOTLEK is an in-depth physical analysis of the international shipping industry; fascinated by the scale and complexity of maritime trade, this project delves into the idea of shared boundaries, trade, geometric stacks, unpredictable events in isolated conditions, and visual disruption..
ANNIE HAN + DANIEL MIHALYO: LEAD PENCIL STUDIO
City Surface , 2012
Plywood, paint, vinyl and scaffolding
Courtesy of MassArt & Lawrimore Project, Booth C-11
Recipient of the Elizabeth Stevens & Co. Prize. Elizabeth Stevens & Co. made the installation possible by providing shipment of the project to PULSE New York.
City Surface developed around an observation about the second and third layer of architecture which exists parasitically and in front of the underlying armature of the city. If the underlying architecture is the result of education, proportion, solidity, and drafting boards, the second is the stuff of countless tradesman and merchants who apply all manner of mechanical attachment, conduit, security measure and non-aesthetic embellishment to eke out a functional advantage over the competition at the lowest cost. Atop this is yet another layer added by an itinerant class of mark makers, promoters, marketers and status seekers in the form of stickers, tags, posters and artwork. This project is the recreation of a wall taken from a street and represents the material addendum to buildings that runs parallel and counter to the idealized image of the city..
INNER COURSE
Knowing Me, Knowing You , 2012
Performance and installation
Courtesy of INNER COURSE and Honey Space, Booth P-1
INNER COURSE stages the performance Knowing Me, Knowing You , a psychic playroom inviting art fair attendees into seven minutes of problem-solving through live-action drawing and sculpturing exercises– wherein Collectors become intrinsic accomplices in the making of their own art.
JENNIE C. JONES
Rest, Dopamine Rising, 2012
Sound; 38 x 6 x 4 in
Courtesy of Lawrimore Project, Booth C-11
Rest, Dopamine Rising uses an ambient sonic tone said to increase awareness by raising dopamine, paired with phrases edited from a Gestalt therapy audio guide. In it, a digitally altered male voice speaks about presence and where one experiences fear in the body.
Intended to create a "pause" or rest in the specific location of a contemporary art fair, it is at once humorous and yet serious in its attempt to provide a moment to refocus in the surroundings of a public space. Another aspect of this work is that it addresses the art fair as an anxiety-ridden experience---in need of a meditative moment to lift the art goers psychologically and emotionally. Thus, in the end, Rest, Dopamine Rising is also an institutional critique.
Giants & Germs (Oath), 2011KRISTOFER PORTER
Tappan Zee Burro, 2012
Mixed media on paper
Courtesy of Fred Torres Collaborations, Booth B-12
In the new work Tappan Zee Burro , by Kristofer Porter, figures interact in stream of consciousness scenes and dream-like settings. The main protagonist in Porter's works is often a tortured soul navigating familial and social structures. The works often indulge in a sort of eerie grotesquerie, with bug-eyed figures and hyper-psychological poses amongst highly graphic surroundings. The sentiment conveyed in his art through visual metaphors is often a reflection of his personal experiences and subconscious impulses, as well as the world and people around him.
RISA PUNO
Good Faith & Fair Dealing , 2012
Interactive installation, 119 x 54 x 39 in.
Courtesy of Galerie Stefan Roepke, Booth D-1
Good Faith & Fair Dealing is an interactive sculpture based on the classic wooden game Labyrinth . In the original game, the player tilts the game board in order to guide a marble through the maze without letting it fall into any of the holes in the playing surface. My version is larger in scale and is complicated by the addition of another player. The game surface is divided in half, with an identical maze and ball dedicated to each player. The players are situated at opposite ends of the board with equal control of the same tilting surface, so they must decide whether to work together to guide both balls to their respective goals, or to play individually as opponents with possibly competing agendas.
Photo Credit: TalismanPHOTO
 Sneaky Leaky, 2009 |
 Reign, 2011 |
FRED WILSON With Sneaky Leaky, Wilson offers evocative drops and puddles of opaque glass, inspired by his 2003 Venice Biennale installation and the complex history of blackness in Venetian art and culture. Variously understood as black tears, oil, glass eyes, or ink, the glasswork is as impenetrable as the history itself, never offering conclusions but rather opening a world of metaphorical meaning. Similarly evocative, the glass beads hanging from the black globe in Reign suggest a geography of race, begging the question of what blackness means globally and historically. |