This weekend saw the return of Kinetica Art Fair, an exhibition dedicated to Kinetic Art. Put simply, it is art involving some sort of motion or movement. It moved to a different location this year, to P3 a cool, underground exhibition space, although very inaccessible due to the number of staircases involved.

The art fair really surprised me with amazing interpretations of kinetic art. The idea of movement can be the art itself, or through the person watching it, or through a combination of both makes for a wide variety of visually stunning art. Combined with simple mechanics, modern lighting technology and sometimes more complex computing displays, much of the art ended up being interactive, and therefore, much more exciting to be around.

This display above was a simple spinning loop, yet combined with mixtures of lights ends up as a fascinating display looking for repeating patterns and occurrences. They even had performance art scheduled throughout the day, although you need to pay additional for that and I didn’t hang around long enough to see any of them.

The great thing about something like this is that the exhibit puts the creators completely accessible to you at each of the display. This means if you’re interested to know more about what they do, or how they put the exhibit together and what inspired them and what message they’re trying to convey you get a first hand view – something you don’t tend to get in any of the museum around London. It was definitely worth the £8 entrance fee and I can’t wait to see what they have for next year.