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PERSPECTIVES is a platform for the exploration of themes and issues within the contemporary art market. For the Miami Beach 2017 edition, PULSE partnered with the New York Film Academy in Miami Beach to present the PERSPECTIVES of three PULSE participants. In this installment, we visit the studio of artist Donna Ruff, whose work will be presented by Rick Wester Fine Art at PULSE.

PERSPECTIVES is a platform for the exploration of themes and issues within the contemporary art market. For the Miami Beach 2017 edition, PULSE partnered with the New York Film Academy in Miami Beach to present the PERSPECTIVES of three PULSE participants. In this installment, we the National YoungArts Foundation in Miami, FL and hear from its President and CEO, Carolina García Jayaram and the booth YoungArts will present at PULSE.

We are thrilled to announce the works selected for PLAY Miami Beach 2017. Each of the nine works chosen by curators Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Pauline Jampol relates to this edition’s theme of POWER, a theme the curators chose to define in a broad sense, inviting artists to explore the multiple iterations of the word, it’s definitions, and the myriad of ways to interpret and contextualize power. 

PLAY Miami Beach 2017 Selections Bolo, Carousel Delphine Fawundu, "the cleanse" Andy Fernandez, MIRIAM Bang Geul Han, How to Remember the Black Book in Seoul Melvin Harper, 3017 Amy Khoshbin, Protest Surabhi Sharaf, Intensities Rodrigo Valenzuela, El Sisifo Ventiko, 꿈을 깨어 (Waking Dream)

“By the time it reached its half-life, the year 2017 had witnessed the gamut of powerful events, powerful people, powerful movements, and powerful paradigm shifts. In feeling the impact of overwhelming examples of social, political, ecological, civil, economic, and even personal power (or lack thereof), we decided to address these moments through the PULSE PLAY program,” say curators Wahi and Jampol.

“The nine videos that we picked include works that contend with the stripping away of power through the lens of the oppressed or expose the dynamics of political dominance through the perspective of the spectator. Others intend to ameliorate the negative impacts of history, validate the power of personal achievement or emphasize the crippling impact of cultural power paradigms on the masses. Each of the videos selected are intended to illicit a visceral response and may be difficult to watch; a few may make you weep, gasp in shock, laugh with an unexplained sense of victory, or sigh with relief. It is our hope that this collection stirs you, and that you feel the full impact of our idea of power.”

The selected works will be shown at PULSE Miami Beach 2017 as well as in a pre-fair, month-long exhibition at Project For Empty Space. Join us in celebrating the artists at the opening at Project For Empty Space on Tuesday October 10 from 5pm - 7pm. 

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is thrilled to announce an open call for submissions for PLAY at Miami Beach 2017. PLAY is PULSE’s dedicated showcase for video and new media, serving as a platform at the fair to encourage discovery within the digital realm. Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Pauline Jampol, Co-Founders and Directors of Project For Empty Space, will return as this year's curators. In October, Wahi and Jampol will host a month-long collaborative exhibition at Project for Empty Space showcasing the 2017 PLAY selections. This exhibition underscores PULSE’s longstanding commitment to exploration both inside and beyond the fair setting, and creates an additional platform from which the selected works can be viewed.

As selected by the curators, the theme for PLAY 2017 is “POWER," wherein artists are invited to explore the multiple iterations of the word, and the myriad of ways to interpret and contextualize power. The curators have determined to use the following definition of power as a jumping point of inquiry into this complex topic;

POWER

pow·er \ˈpau̇(-ə)r\

noun

1. the ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality.

2. the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.

3. physical strength and force exerted by something or someone.

4. energy that is produced by mechanical, electrical, or other means and used to operate a device

5. (mathematics) the number of times a certain number is to be multiplied by itself

verb

1. (a device) with mechanical or electrical energy.

2. move or travel with great speed or force.

Submissions for PLAY are now being accepted through Submittable. All submissions must include one video or new media piece running no longer than 15 minutes. Submissions should also include the artist’s bio and/or CV, an artwork statement, a supporting still of the submitted work, and the $50 application fee. All entries are due by August 2, 2017 and final selections will be announced in September. Selections will be shown onsite for the duration of PULSE Miami Beach 2017, in an exhibition in October at Project For Empty Space, and will enjoy additional promotion through PULSE's website and social media.

Zoe Buckman entered my radar as someone to keep up with. We work in similar modes with similar themes and (unfortunately?) at times similar execution. 

http://www.zoebuckman.com/art/

PULSE Miami Beach is thrilled to announce Tony Gum as the winner of the 2017 PULSE PRIZE. This jury-awarded cash grant has been given directly to an artist of distinction exhibiting within a solo presentation booth at every edition of PULSE since 2006.

Represented by the South African-based Christopher Moller Gallery, Gum offers considered perspectives to the meta-narratives of an ever-changing world through the series of five large portraits shown in her booth. Aptly entitled ‘Ode to She’, the artist’s latest work explores, and encapsulates the essence of what it means to be a Xhosa woman, a human expression of 'womanhood'. “Through this work, I want to re-iterate the power and representation of each woman, acknowledging all the women I have encountered throughout my journey,” explains Gum. “I needed it to be a ‘poem’, a ‘song’, ‘a letter to she' … and I don’t mean ‘SHE’ in the gender confined or prescriptive sense. I speak of SHE, the Being, who understands HE/SHE to be a FORCE, like nature, a person who has been beaten, battered but is still able to rise.”