Kinetica Art Fair packed with highlights
Despite the unassuming entrance down some fire escape stairs into what appears to be an underground club, the opening of Kinetica Art Fair on 3 February was absolutely rammed.
In fact, it was so rammed, it made it a bit difficult to really take in a lot of the installations.
Armed with a plastic cup of wine we did our best though and battled our way through the crowds to pick out some highlights for our blog.
Let’s start with the impressively weird - not exactly a light installation but as it was made from a light bulb, we feel that we are allowed to include it - a kinetic sculpture made from a painted GLS and a dead bird.
Sounds wrong, doesn’t it! It probably is but it was impossible not to watch. Check out the video here…
One of the most popular, from the point of view of audience participation, was “the world’s first large scale, multi touch, multi user, interactive spherical display”.
Created by East London arts and technology collective www.seeper.com in collaboration with PufferFish, it drew people to it like moths to a flame.
Architectural Lighting design consultancy Pritchard Themis also made an appearance with an installation called ‘Carousels’ that combined DMX programming and LED sources to deliver timed effects against the long wall near the bar.
The design plays with simple patterns and paper windmills.
There was so much content, and so many people, that it’s hard to pick a personal favourite - the simple, and almost accidental looking effect of the kinetic shadows from Christina Saradopoulou’s ‘Individual Singularities, Collective Similarities’ was mesmerising.
As was the zoetrope, persistence of vision, sculpture “Runner” by Gregory Barsamian.
However, if you pushed us, we would probably say Wearable Shadows #2 by Simon Donger and Daniel Felstead.
It was essentially a darkness installation where moving in and out of an infrared light caused an amorphous blob of light to cling to your shadow.
Fascinating and probably the quietest area of the show - maybe because it was so dark and anonymous - but we loved it.
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