Art Basel | Public Opening Night
Wed, Dec 4, 2013 8:30pm – 10:00pm
2100 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139

A special evening program with live performances, as part of the Public sector. Curated by Nicholas Baume, Director & Chief Curator, Public Art Fund, New York.

Kate Gilmore has created ‘Only One Like You’, a new performance that builds on themes introduced in her 2011 Public Art Fund project.

Taking the basic elements of human presence and bodily movement as his raw materials, Ryan McNamara’s new performance ‘Uncanny Liquidity’ intends to tweak perceptions and provoke curiosity.

For ‘Smoke Grid’ Olaf Breuning will simultaneously set off smoke canisters to create a sea of colored smoke.

A new sound installation by Mungo Thomson will be created that evening. Four musicians playing different instruments – clarinet, flute, violin and percussion – will imitate the song of crickets.

For the fourth performance of the evening, entitled ‘Santa Confessional’, David Colman installs a classic Catholic confessional within Collins Park for people to confess their sins and ask for absolution.