New artworks, performers and events have been announced for the Kinetica Art Fair 2011. The annual event is the UK's only art fair dedicated to kinetic, robotic, new media, electronic, sound, light and time-based art and takes place from 3 - 6 February 2011 at the Ambika P3 space, Marylebone Road, London.
Now in its third year, the Fair has doubled in size and features over 400 artworks from galleries and art organisations across the UK and internationally. Work ranges in price from £60 – £35,000.
For the first time, world-renowned performance artist Stelarc will appear at the Fair and (at the same time) in Second Life. He will explore the human form through giant body organs, transparent brains and a beating heart and present “Ear on Arm,” his project that involves the grafting of an ear onto his forearm - an Internet enabled ear that hears and transmits.
The theme of this year’s show is the evolution of body, brain, mind and consciousness. The Fair’s feature exhibition: The Evolution of Consciousness brings together 17 artists from six countries who challenge and explore our quest to further human potential.
New artists and highlights announced include:
- Christiaan Zwanikken’s techno-animalistic figures come to life in a futuristic zoo, clapping, ticking and calling.
- Balint Bolygo’s ‘Pulse’ explores magnetic forces between atoms. Using memory metal, his work acts as a muscle contracting as atoms move from one state to another.
- Tom Wilkinson investigates the fabric of our world using life-sized everyday objects that disfigure and crumple before ‘re-forming’ again.
- Tim Lewis creates man-animal-machine hybrids. Expect walking chairs and nightmarish light bulbs as autonomous objects cast themselves into flight.
- GeoSphere from seeper.com in collaboration with Pufferfish. This luminescent orb transforms how people receive and interact with information and provides an immersive multi-sensory experience that evokes and creates memories.
- JOTKA’s giant balancing sculptures are both beautiful and grotesque, forming shadows on buildings that distort proportions, adding new dimensions to the work.
- Jim Bond’s fragmented 3D bodies disintegrate, explode and reconstitute themselves to reflect the fragility of the human condition.
Ioannis Michalous creates sculptures made from material used by NASA to collect stardust. Made from 99% air and 1% glass they form mini-universes of stars. - Carlo Bernardini’s light installations create illusionary dimensions defying physical walls of space, forcing light around corners and across rooms.
Over 25 performances, talks and events are taking place, ranging from science and artistic collaboration and artists concepts of quantum theory and harmonic resonance, ideas for a free currency, and hypnotic audiovisual experiences.
To find out more about the Kinetica Art Fair 2011 visit www.kinetica-artfair.com.
Ticket prices: Art fair only: £12 / £10 conc. Day Ticket (includes fair, talks and performances): £15 / £12 conc. VIP launch ticket (limited availability): £25.
Images featured include Cécile Colle and Ralf Nuhn’s ‘Exit-Wall’; Paul Spooner’s classic ‘The Dream’ (1984);
JOTKA’s ‘Balancing Sculptures’ and Tim Lewis presents ‘Flight’.
