But we were there to see the art, right? With so much going on, choices had to be made to leave out more than half of the amazing talks, museum shows, and smaller fairs to keep my head from exploding. And I confess, I really don’t like the mallification of the art experience. So I eased into the action via the anti-fair at The Station – the 12,000-foot empty corporate space curated by Shamin Momin and Nate Lowman.

Clare Rojas, under the guise of her alter ego Peggy Honeywell, was one of many musicians who serenaded the less athletically inclined, who were comfortably reclining in the hammocks. Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger, two burly bearded men whose performative art has the tag line “always together, always in public,” sat 20 feet apart peacefully crocheting what is likely to be the longest pink shawl in the world, continuing one of their many never-ending collaborative performances. Inside, at Workplace Gallery, videos by Marcus Coates including Dawn Chorus (2007), in which amateur singers replicate bird sounds in their own domestic environments, and another work featuring an animal covered Shaman trying to heal the world, enticed me to seek out the Art Video Lounge. There I timed it right to catch consecutive videos by Yael Bartana, Omer Fast, and Roman Signer from a strong selection of new works curated by Rike Frank.

There I found three of the four members of the collective slumped against the wall trying to work up the energy to create spontaneous performances in response to the video projected in the red womb-like environment. Then the best of Miami and New York came together thanks to mother nature’s sky art, a stunning sunset of reds and pinks, accompanied by a musical soundtrack courtesy of WPS1 Radio.