Announcing PULSE Miami Beach 2015 Programming

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is pleased to announce a full series of programming in honor of its eleventh edition in Miami Beach. PULSE’s programs are inspired by the desire to cultivate a dynamic environment in which visitors can connect and engage with art, performance and current topics in the art market. The programming for each edition of the fair is filtered through the lens of an overarching theme, which for PULSE Miami Beach is Spectacle.

PULSE will officially open to the public at 4pm on Tuesday, December 1 with an Opening Celebration featuring music, performance art and a PERSPECTIVES panel discussion. Hyperallergic, the art world’s trusted resource for critical discourse, partners with PULSE to present PERSPECTIVES, the fair's series of panel discussions, at PULSE Miami Beach and at PULSE New York in 2016. "Spectacle, Spector and Performance," moderated by Hyperallergic founder and editor Hrag Vartanian, will be the first panel in this series featuring curator Stacy Engman and artists Amir Baradaran, Kate Durbin and Kalup Linzy in conversation. Performance artist Kate Durbin and her gaggle of performers will also bring to life an interactive piece entitled Hello, Selfie! during the Opening Celebration courtesy of TRANSFER gallery. Celebrated multi-disciplinary artist and former Guggenheim Fellow Kalup Linzy will also debut Season 2 of his satirical art industry soap opera, As the Art World Might Turn. The evening will culminate with a live performance by Linzy.

Throughout the week visitors will also have the chance to experience an interactive augmented reality installation by artist Amir Baradaran presented by Morgan Stanley. The performance intertwines the sounds of rhythmic Sufi poetry with the most common and influential sensory motor skill known to mankind - the smile - to activate AR coding and create a digital palimpsest that will be projected onto a screen at the fair.  
 
PULSE will celebrate Miami, its host city, on Saturday, December 5 with a day dedicated to the city’s cultural richness. The Sunset Celebration, which begins at 5pm, will feature "Future Visions of Miami," an insightful PERSPECTIVES talk focused on the Miami art scene with in-depth conversations between prominent local art-world insiders, and a performance presented by the Knight Foundation. On Saturday between 10am - 5pm residents of Miami-Dade County will also receive complimentary admission upon presentation of a valid ID. 
 
Programming partner, Target Too, will offer visitors a place where products come to play, come to life. Introduced in New York City in March 2015, Target Too takes items sold at Target and combines them in inventive, unexpected ways. PULSE attendees will have the opportunity to experience installations from the original unveiling, as well as several new pieces built specifically for Miami Art Week.

Artsy will continue to showcase PULSE with an exclusive online preview launching on November 24, where users may view works and contact galleries with inquiries beginning a week before the fair opens. The PULSE Miami Beach microsite will remain live on Artsy throughout the duration of the fair with works updated daily.