Momentum got underway yesterday in a beautiful old building near Sydney's Carriageworks. The upstairs space is set up up for the two-day Momentum Forum, with a large open space for performance. Downstairs the organisers abandoned initial plans to create booths, opting for open space with wall-mounted screens for projections and 47" LCDs clamped to columns. Not surprisingly the floor looks more like an adjunct to the Biennale of Sydney than an art fair, but this in line with the orgainsers aim "to re-imagine the art fair into a more sustainable and innovative model", one that embraces work such as video and performance, that rarely find its way into conventional art fairs.
On day one we presented video works by Stella Brennan (South Pacific), Hye Rim Lee (Crystal City Spun), Jae Hoon Lee (A leaf) and Grant Stevens (Crushing and In the Beyond).
Images from the top: Hye Rim Lee's Crystal City Spun and Jae Hoon Lee's A Leaf, Stella Brennan's South Pacific, Grant Stevens' In the Beyond, and the panel for the forum session on re-imaging the art fair
Images from the top: Hye Rim Lee's Crystal City Spun and Jae Hoon Lee's A Leaf, Stella Brennan's South Pacific, Grant Stevens' In the Beyond, and the panel for the forum session on re-imaging the art fair
