Please join us for The Sams Launch Ceremony on Thursday, December 7th, 7-8pm:
Fountain Miami
2825 NW 2nd Avenue (at 29th Street)

The launch will be followed by a mobile performance appearing at the night’s major parties.

Catch The Sams again at Fountain Miami’s official opening reception on Friday, December 8th, 7pm - midnight.

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The Sams

The Sams is a participatory experience produced by a Brooklyn-based team of artists known simply as "The Organizers," who ask the following: what would be the effect of taking the most ubiquitous figure at Art Basel Miami Beach and duplicating him, cloning him—imperfectly—and releasing his clones into the night to create multiple incidences of art world confusion and speculation across Miami and South Beach?

The Sams engages themes of multiplicity, notions of identity, and the exploration of celebrity within its context. The project certainly has its references: the Situationists, Vanessa Beecroft, flashmobs, and file-sharing culture. For the audience and for participants, the piece is distributed, dispersed and experiential, claiming as its setting not a single gallery or venue but rather the shared context of Art Basel Miami Beach itself.

Glowlab is presenting the project in collaboration with a new, DIY-style fair called Fountain Miami, a counter-point to the existing art fairs with work by emerging and established artists presented by Brooklyn-based galleries and curators.

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Samsite: http://wearethesams.com
Samspace: http://www.myspace.com/wearethesams
Samspotting: http://www.flickr.com/people/thesams
Fountain Miami: http://fountainexhibit.com
Glowlab: http://glowlab.com
email: wearethesams ::at:: gmail.com

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