My friends at Rush Arts had a major presence at Art Basel Miami. First there was Freeze Frame on display at 4141 NE 2nd Avenue in a great little space that allowed them to put up a very nice show. Nico Wheadon the assistant curator at Rush curated the show. Freeze Frame presented a collection of video still prints by thirty international artists working in narrative, non-narrative, experimental and documentary video. Independent of it's original context a video still may convey the fragmented representation of a grander narrative, exploration or event where subjects and objects are inert, awaiting the progression of temporality. In basic terms for those of you bored with art world speak, essentially when you take still images from a video and view them out of context the images can be perceived in many different ways Freeze Frame embraces the immense possibilities this presents.

Saturday night Michael Cabrera and Max Pierre hosted a closing night reception which included performances. There was a second show called Satellite at Scope Miami. Satellite was a curatorial project that expenaded upon the conceptual framework of Freeze Frame and further deconstructed the visual narrative into it's constituent parts to test the durability of durational structures.

I've included some pictures from the reception on Saturday night.