3rd edition satellite fair showcasing South Florida artists, musicians & performers.

Kerry McLaney (305 Creative Group), Heather Read, Sara Read and Laraine Hart, in association with The Awarehouse, present Miami’s Independent Thinkers ART BASEL 2011, a collaborative multimedia art exhibition showcasing Miami’s premiere, emerging and young artists.

The 4-day fair aims to feature local artists working across a range of media – painters, photographers, filmmakers, sculptors, animators, writers, musicians, muralists, performance and new media artists. The fair will run from December 1-4, 2011 during Art Basel and will include live music, DJs, performance art, fashion, and gastronomic edibles by Ms. Cheezious.

Again this year, Miami’s Independent Thinkers ART BASIL, a co-op farmers market featuring organic fruits, vegetables, herbs, body products, baby products, vegan treats, yoga, sustainable clothes, accessories and activities. Will also include eco-friendly designers and artists. In collaboration with 305Green & Arbodela Fest.

SPECIAL EVENTS:
• VIP/Press/Artist preview: Thursday, Dec 1, 4pm-8pm. Featuring Baby B Strings duet.
• A Blank Canvas Art Battle: Friday, Dec. 2, 8-9:30PM.
• Bassel Fever co-hosted by Techsupport: Friday, Dec. 2, 10PM-Close
• Live Local Bands, DJs & Performers: Saturday, Dec. 3, 6PM-Close
• Art Basil Farmers Market: Sunday, Dec. 4, 12-5PM

SELECTED ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Alex Ibsen • Alex Trimino • Alexandra Snowden • Alfredo Perez • Ana Villarruel • Annette Mauricio • Anthony Humphreys • Ashley E. Craig • Barbara M de Varona • Betsy Gandy • Carla Fache • Caroline Geys • Carolyn Mendoza • Charis Kirchheimer • Clara Varas • Dan Walker • Danielle Campfield • David Gary • David Rosenbloom • Diana Maquire • Diana Rodriguez • Enrique Sendra Perez • Ernesto Kunde • Ernesto Montes • Felisa Prieto • George Goodridge • George Riveron • Gil Bitton • Gina Cunningham • Henry Ballate • Humberto M Vento • Ileana Tolibia • Isabelle Wilcynska • Jaime Ferreyros • JeanPaul Malozzi • Jeff Ryan • John DeFaro • John Pack • Juan “ERMAN” Gonzalez • Karen Starosta-Gilinski • Katia Danilova • Katya Neptune • Kayce Armstrong • Kim Yantis • Lisa Danker • Lori Nozick • Luis Arturo Mora • Maitejosune Urrechaga • Mark Diamond • Marlene Lopez • Mary Larsen • Mauricio Ferrazza • Mesa Gonzalez • Michael White • Mikelle A Moore • Milcho • Myra Wexler • Natalia Molina • Nicole Martinez • Phaedra Robinson • Ramon Branger • Ramon F. Bofill • Redinger-Libolt • Rod Deal • Rodrigo Arcaya • Ron Syllien • Ryan Hayoun • Sandra Caballero • Sean Murdock • Sean Sullivan • Shane M Maberry • Sophie Bonet • Sri Prabha • Stephanie Gonzalez • Tatiana Poveda • Ted VanCleave • Xiomara Ponce • Zusel Escriba
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Miami’s Independent Thinkers Art Basel 2011
December 1st-4th, 2011
Awarehouse
$10. Free with VIP passes.
Thursday 4-8PM (VIP/Press/Artist Preview), Friday and Saturday 6PM-3AM, and Sunday 12-5PM

Check out the preview video for a taste of what’s to come!

PsychevisioN Productions & Awarehouse Present…

DARK CLOUDS Fall Music and Arts Gathering

Musical Algorithms Provided By…
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OrganicArma
T.U.S.K.
The Astro BlaK Experience
The Animal Pharm Society (Feat. members of Parliament Funkadelic & Kool & the Gang)
Y Diz (Telekinetic Family)
Cog Nomen
Mr. Feathers (Triangle Earth)
Buba Goes to Chaos
O.H.M.E.
Eric Dez
Phantasman
Emerson BreastMilk
Xela Zaid
Laharii
Omar Rouge
Dismas Gestas
Axl

Arts
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THE TRANS-DIMENSIONAL LABYRINTH OF ENCHANTMENT
<<Presented in PsychevisioN 3-D!!!>>
Our scientist have built a stable “portal opener” (100% safety tested) a StarGate to other worlds, for YOU to enter & explore! A collab piece by PsychevisioN members Richard Larralde & Eddy Earthtone.

THE WORDS & WINE POETRY TENT
Hosted by Nikki Rodriguez & Lou Roman of W&W. This stage will showcase some of Miami’s freshest poets & most talented acoustic acts. Bring your drums because it’s only a matter of time before the W&W Familia turns this tent into a sensual & cultural driven drum circle. Featured Poets: Melvin Bravo, Dan Serro, Alonso Menendez, Leidy Person, Jaramis Nadal, Summer Hill, Lou Roman, Alexis Adames, Pedro Marin Mirt, Armaghan, Karina Garcia, Roly Daniel, & Sophie Moon.

THE GYPSY’S VOID
Across the field of enchantment lies a peculiar field of space with an interesting vibratory frequency extruding from it… Gypsy Tent created by Red Light Studios

ALSO FEATURING
// Interstellar Art Installations by Rodrigo Arcaya, Zusel Escriba & Nicole Martinez
// LIVE Art provided by Reinier Gamboa
//LIVE Spray Art by VAGO天
// LIVE Art by Cortney Cates
// Hand-Made Organic Jewelry by NativaZul
// “ENVISION” Art Exhibition Closing Reception

Admission $10 // 21+ With ID

Live art. Live music. Booze. Food. Blood. All shall be in gruesome abundance at the Sketchy Halloween Party.

Featured artists include Olivier Casse, Jason Snyder, Jeiddy Lopez, Daniel Ortiz, Russ Ronat and Brian Butler.

Music makers Arboles Libres, The State Of, and organicArma will take the stage alongside a slew of DJs to keep you moving all night long.

Food truck: gastroPOD and Ms. Cheezious will be on hand to keep the munchies at bay.

Come in costume. Leave with candy. $20 cover gets you two drinks, $30 gets you four, $50 gets you as much as you want, and, for early birds, a bag of tricks and treats. Must be 21+ to attend.

Many thanks to our sponsors Grolsch and Pearl.

The goal of Sketchy Miami is simple and impossible: to create a portrait of every person in Miami. Beached Miami and Sketchy Miami are siblings.

Rebirth, Grow, Breathe, and now ENVISION, the fourth event in the growing series put on by the Telekinetic Family… As always we will showcase the best of Miami’s underground music, art, and culture. It’s Telekinetic Walrus’ first show back since May. Dusthead will be releasing his new album, “Ancient Space Disco.” Secret atmosphere enhancing elements will open your mind’s connection to the cosmos. Get ready for ENVISION.

October 8th, 10PM-3AM

.MUSIC.
Telekinetic Walrus and The Pride of Ions
Dusthead (CD Release)
Beatmachines (Tony and Cuci of Afrobeta and JJ of Suenalo)
Raja Khan
Sounduo
Okulus Anomali
organicArma
The Cornerstoners
Cog Nomen (Buffalo of Elastic Bond and Ulysses of Out of the Anonymous)
Eric Dez
Mr. Feathers (Triangle Earth)
Axiom Crux
SpinnZinn
Seven D
Doctor Jones
Eden Grey
AstroBlak

.ART.
Reinier Gamboa
Vago
Rah Threads
Cortney Cates
Stacey Love and Alley Cat “Love Body Art”
Art Curated by Nicole Martinez
Carlos Calderon
Heather Capps
3PQ
Aleli Egues
Sinisa Kukec
Stefan Tugrul
Rodrigo Arcaya
Nicole Martinez
Freddy Jouwayed
Gustavo Oviedo
Barron Sherer
Juan Griego
Marta Dunn
Zusel Escriba
Anthony Allegro
Carlota Pradera
Priscilla Marrero
Vanesa Dabul
Juan Griego

.VISUALS.
Rodrigo Arcaya
VJAV8
Parker
Andrew Byrd

18+ to Enter, 21+ to Drink // $10

Special thanks to our sponsor Grolsch!

By Dawn Dubriel // September 2011

Here is the whole top ten, including some of our favorite neighbors.

THE ART // LIFEBOAT MUTINY

An audio/visual presentation and performance featuring the sounds of
A LEGION OF PIGS
ROMULO DEL CASTILLO
FSIK HUVNX
NICOLE MARTINEZ

with video and art works by
RODRIGO ARCAYA
ERICK CLAUX BERTINI
DAVID BRIESKE
CAT DOVE
EDWARD EDEN
ZUSEL ESCRIBA
PATTY HERR
FREDDY JOUWAYED
SINISA KUKEC
JUAN MARISTANY
NICOLE MARTINEZ
TOM SCHMITT
STEPHAN TUGURUL

–A 3PQ Collaboration

Additionally, we are proud to present a special outdoor patio sound art performance “WAREYARD” by FROZEN MUSIC – an artist collective and experimental music ensemble founded by GUSTAVO MATAMOROS.

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THE MUSIC // KEEP OFF THE LAWN
After a solid year of FIN DU MΩNDE and a brief hiatus, we now make our return to the nightlife by supplying Miami with an untested night of innovative bass and musical transfiguration. KEEP OFF THE LAWN is designed to show Miami a different side of the movement that so many music aficionados have recently decided to embrace. Delivering multiple sets of experimental beats and future bass, KOTL invites everyone, new and old, to enjoy the side of a genre that many have chosen to overlook. Packing some of the best sound you will ever experience, we will have some of the most creative individuals to keep the tunes moving throughout the evening, brought to you by [SMUT+BASS] and Awarehouse.

DAVE BETAMAX + OMINOUS ANONYMOUS (2 Hour Live Mixed Media Set)
SAHAR BERLIN (Smut+Bass)
SOUNDUO (Bond Music Group)
CHALK (Dubporn Records)

NO COVER!!
GALLERY HOURS 6-11PM
MUSIC STARTS AT 11PM
21+ WITH ID AFTER 11PM

★ Wasabi Fashion Kult & Awarehouse Present ★
★ Artwalk Edition: The Chromatic Project ★

Please join us as we create a short film documenting Miami’s underground scene featuring electronic bands, writers, visual and fashion artists. A creative effort to explore the void of one of the most essential elements of perception, color.

Saturday July 9th, 2011
Free Admission!
Grolsch Happy Hour 10-11!!

★ 6:00 p.m. Gallery Doors Open
Dubbed by the Knight Arts press as an “Awakening at the Awarehouse” a multimedia Art Explosion featuring Miami’s best is extended for July’s Artwalk. Including artwork by: Rodrigo Arcaya, Leah Brown, Carlos Calderon, Denise Delgado, Mark Diamond, Marta Dunn, Edward Eden, Zusel Escriba, Juan Griego, Freddy Jouwayed, Sinisa Kukek, Juan Maristany, Nicole Martinez, Brandon Opalka, Gustavo Oviedo, Lisa Rockford, & Stefan Tugrul.

★ 7:00 p.m. Experimental sound art performances by Nicole Martinez & Nestor Prieto

★ 10:00 p.m. Chromatic Project Show & Movie Filming
Featuring live performances by Crystal Cadillac, Lion King Electro, organicArma, Sounduo, & Transoverload; DJs Axiom & Mike Sike; fashion by the Art of Shade, Revamp Relove, & LiTTLE RAMONAS; writers Alexander Blanco, Benjamin Shahoulian, Lauren Ann Wolfe, & Michael Fleming; visuals by R of Tecne Collective.

On this night, you decide you’re tired of the bright gallery lights, the soulless corridors of corporate event spaces, and the stale cigarette-scented couches of megaclubs. You go in search of the rabbit hole — a place where art freaks can wander aimlessly through a maze of exhibits, indie-electro fans can bang heads to the beat all night long in a warehouse garage, and New York City transplants can collapse on beanbags in a 10,000-square-foot garden to watch video projections like they’re at a Central Park concert. You drink the magic potion and realize that Wonderland is really Wynwood and that the Mad Hatter tea party could take place only at Awarehouse. You quickly make friends with past partiers: electronic-norteño accordion players from Tijuana’s Nortec Collective, funk-heavy hip-hoppers from N.E.R.D., American Apparel enthusiasts freaking over a rummage sale, and a plethora of experimental painters and photographers who love to watch disco lights roam over their canvases. Eventually you’ll pine for the real world once again. But tonight you’ll happily settle for life through the looking glass.

Upon first approaching the garden this evening, a plane landing at night greets visitors on an outdoor wall. Runway lights make up the looping 16 millimeter installation from Barron Sherer called “Low Visibility Loop.”

Resting on a platform, the metallic green disco-ball chair with huge molecules — or space balls — sprouting from the seat is the next eye-catcher as you walk into the crisp, two-story renovated warehouse. It’s from SInisa Kukec, as is the light-reflecting, rotating, large, mounted sphere across from it. In between, a whitish, moon-like projection make up his troika. Behind his are three comic-strip cut-out collages from Stephan Tugrul. Rather than looking messy and loud, as pop-collage often does, these are strangely elegant. The cut-out magazine images are layered and layered, so they form their own structure, resembling a landscape set against a metal-gray background.

There’s a nice new sculpture from Brandon Opalka on the front wall, in a similar vein to the works he unveiled at his recent solo show at Dorsch gallery. Made from bottles, a book and a mirror, it’s a 21st century urban altar.

But for many on opening night, the centerpieces in the show move around with you upstairs in the furnished open loft space. They are the hologram sculptures from Mark Diamond, a long-time Miami artist known for his moving, 3-D images. There are some quiet, panoramic still works that deserve a sit-down on the chairs, but the holographs — one of red hot candies, another of a certain jazz musician and his horn — require a good walk around, again and again. Too much explaining will take away the effect.

Downstairs in the back, video artist Juan Maristany and Freddy Jouwayed collaborated on a room with video sculpture and an interactive drawing. On this opening night, a floor covered in pens encourages the crowd to pick one up and add their own scribblings to the ever-spreading wall drawing. Jouwayed works it, too.

There are numerous paintings and some freaky sculpture as well from other artists. All the art will be hanging around for another event on Second Saturday in July, for the type of evening that makes this work come alive.

By Anne Tschida // June 14 2011