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Seattle Art Fair, presented by AIG, announces its opening events, Projects and Talks program, and cultural partners for its second edition, running August 4-7 at CenturyLink Field Event Center. The Seattle Art Fair, co-produced by Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc. and Art Market Productions, will feature over 80 exhibitors.

Tickets to the fair are now available online. The fair will kick off with the Beneficiary Preview, proceeds benefitting the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), on Thursday, August 4 at 5:30pm, followed by the official Opening Night Preview starting at 8:30pm. The fair continues August 5-7, with a diverse schedule of projects, talks and events happening both on and off site. 

Projects:
The Seattle Art Fair Projects will debut a new series of special activities, performances, and installations to engage the fair’s public spaces, organized by Artistic Director Laura Fried. Spanning sculpture, performance, and installation, the Projects will take place both at the fair and in adjacent neighborhoods, reaching a wide and diverse audience, and spotlighting Seattle's position as a vital cultural capital. 

Explains Laura Fried, Artistic Director of the Seattle Art Fair, “This year’s Projects and Talks spotlight the incredible artist production that is emerging from the West Coast and beyond. Immersive installations and artist driven projects will contribute to a rich audience experience inside the fair itself, while performance and sculpture extend into adjacent neighborhoods. Our goal with the program is to connect with a broad audience at a time when locals and tourists alike alight this beautiful city, and to offer encounters with contemporary art in meaningful and surprising ways.”

On-site at the fair:
An ambitious lineup of solo projects by an intergenerational group of emerging and established artists will be on view at the CenturyLink Field Event Center during fair hours. Glenn Kaino and Timothy “Speed” Levitch will lead uncanny fair tours, while Dawn Kasper will present an alternative cosmology with a room-sized forest of motion-activated cymbals. The exhibition platform Public Fiction will trace the roots of artists who used new technologies—like early video art and public access television—at their inception. The Projects will also spotlight large-scale sculpture by artists who examine the relationship between materiality, craft, and technology— such as Roxy Paine’s ominous diorama of a CIA observation room and Adam McEwen’s fullscale sculptures of supercomputers made of graphite—and will explore the simple but powerful way a line can take shape in space, from Claire Falkenstein’s nested orbs to Kishio Suga’s dramatic balancing-act assemblages. Projects include: 

• Adam McEwen, Blue Gene 1 and Blue Gene 2, 2016
• Brenna Murphy, SequenceSource_Array, 2016
• Selection of historic works by Claire Falkenstein
• Dawn Kasper, Cluster (WC2), 2016
• Glenn Kaino, Aspiration, 2016
• Selection of new works by Jeffry Mitchell
• Kishio Suga, Correspondence, 2006
• Public Fiction, a.public.fiction.announcement. (PFA): A Witness and A Weapon., 2016
• Roxy Paine, experiment, 2016
• The fair presents a kid friendly space in collaboration with the collective, teamLab

Off-site in adjacent neighborhoods:
Site-responsive projects in Pioneer Square and the International District/Chinatown will celebrate the many facets of performance, highlighting interdisciplinary work and a collaborative spirit. Projects will include special choreographic works by Bebe Miller + Darrell Jones and Flora Wiegmann at the historic Union Station; a sound work and performance with local artists/musicians staged by Brendan Fowler; Wynne Greenwood’s hometown homage rendered as soft seats for a public park; and a tourist experience conceived by Glenn Kaino and led by Timothy “Speed” Levitch in Kaino’s invented dialect, Martian English. Projects include:

• Brendan Fowler, Seattle, 2016 | Good Arts Building (110 Cherry St, Seattle, WA 98104)
• Flora Wiegmann, Halo of Consciousness, 2016 | Union Station (401 S Jackson St, Seattle, WA 98104)
• Glenn Kaino, Aspiration, 2016 | CenturyLink Field Event Center & surrounding neighborhoods
• Wynne Greenwood, In Loving Memory, 2016 | Occidental Square (117 S Washington St, Seattle, WA 98104)
• Bebe Miller + Darrell Jones, 2016 | Union Station (401 S Jackson St, Seattle, WA 98104)
• luciana achugar, The Pleasure Project, 2016 | Occidental Square (117 S Washington St, Seattle, WA 98104)

Talks:
Seattle Art Fair Talks will present a program of two-person dialogues by an array of artists and leaders in creative fields with deep connections to the West Coast and the Pacific Northwest. The Talks will take place throughout the run of the fair, in the Seattle Art Fair Theater within CenturyLink Field Event Center. Focusing on curiosity and the ways a distinct sense of place can create a powerful cultural context, the Talks lineup includes:

• Friday, August 5 at 12:00pm, Sharon Johnston + Rita McBride
• Friday, August 5 at 3:00pm, Lauren Mackler + Emily Zimmerman
• Saturday, August 6 at 2:00pm, Kim Gordon + Branden Joseph
• Saturday, August 6 at 4:00pm, Kyle MacLachlen + Carrie Brownstein
• Sunday, August 7 at 3:00pm, Anne Ellegood + Brian Jungen

Seattle Art Fair
Seattle Art Fair was founded by Paul G. Allen as a unique and innovative art experience showcasing the vibrant culture and diversity of the Pacific Northwest. In addition to being a destination for new and established collectors and international art patrons, the fair shines a light on Seattle’s thriving art scene. Now in its second year, the fair features local, regional, and international art galleries presenting top-tier modern and contemporary art. The Seattle Art Fair is produced by Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc. and Art Market Productions.

For more information, and a full list participating galleries, visit: seattleartfair.com.