MIAMI, FL.- Scope, Miami’s first alternative art fair, returns for a fifth straight year to continue its mandate of challenging passive viewing by giving visitors a view of the contemporary art world available nowhere else. Scope Miami 2006 is poised to redefine the conventions of an art fair with its new 40,000-square-foot, artist-designed pavilion located in Roberto Clemente Park in the heart of Miami’s Wynwood Art District.

Just blocks from the Rubell Family Art Collection, the Margulies Collection, and Miami’s leading galleries, Scope Miami’s ninety international exhibitors uphold Scope’s unique tradition of one-person and thematic group shows presented alongside museum-quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events. The fair opens daily at 10 AM; admission is $10. Scope Miami 2006 is proud to welcome Flamingo South Beach as its Platinum Sponsor.

Scope Miami’s new monumental pavilion- comprising shipping containers, tents, and art projects-was conceived, designed, and constructed by Scope founder and president Alexis Hubshman, architect Charles Mallea, and expert tentmaker and owner of Event Star, Alain Perez. The experience of the fair begins outside the pavilion where visitors are reduced to a childlike scale by Agustina Wood-Gate’s Where the Wild Things Grow, a large-scale urban garden of 1,000 waterproof, handmade, green fabric cones. This veritable meadow of six-foot-tall blades of grass leads to the Sanchez Brothers’ Between Life and Death: inside of a real crashed bus, holographic projections of celestial visions recreate passengers- near-death experiences. Visitors then enter the pavilion and interact with [PAM], The Perpetual Art Machine, a video exhibition organized by Lee Wells, Raphaele Shirley, Chris Borkowski, and Aaron Miller. Fairgoers can choose which videos to project on cinema-sized screens in the main foyer from over 600 videos from sixty countries, effectively becoming part of the curatorial process.