Programme Projects, Talks and Live Regent’s Park 15–18 October 2014 Preview Tuesday 14 October friezelondon.com Frieze Projects Frieze Talks Frieze Projects at Frieze London 2014 brings together a series of new commissions, realised both at the fair and in a number of offsite locations around the city of London and the UK, made possible by collaborations with a wide range of partnering institutions. This year’s programme, curated by Nicola Lees, has a focus on artists whose practices intersect with other disciplines including dance, theatre, film and music. Frieze Talks is a programme of panel discussions, conversations and keynote lectures by leading artists, writers, curators, filmmakers and cultural commentators, curated by frieze magazine editors Jörg Heiser, Christy Lange and Amy Sherlock. The participating artists are Sophia Al Maria, Jonathan Berger, Isabel Lewis, Tobias Madison, Nick Mauss, and Cerith Wyn Evans. Frieze Projects also includes the London debut of Jérôme Bel’s Disabled Theatre and, for Frieze Film, Cally Spooner presents commercial interruptions within the auditorium programme. New to the fair in 2014 is the inaugural Frieze Artist Award, established to enable an emerging artist to present a site-specific work at Frieze London. The winner of this year’s award is Mélanie Matranga. Complementing Frieze Talks at the fair, frieze video is a strand of arts films and documentaries produced by frieze magazine in association with Pundersons Gardens. The fair’s selection includes recent videos of interviews, essays and reports from art events around the world. Live Live is a new section dedicated to ambitious, active and performance-based installations, including those specially conceived for the fair, as well as the restaging of significant historical work. Participating artists and galleries include Robert Breer with gb agency, United Brothers with Green Tea Gallery, Shanzhai Biennial with Project Native Informant, Tamara Henderson with Rodeo, Adam Linder with Silberkuppe and Franz Erhard Walther with Galerie Jocelyn Wolff. Live is supported by Alexander McQueen. Supported by The fair programme will be streamed throughout the week on friezeprojects.org and thisistomorrow.info Frieze Projects Live Onsite L1 Project Native Informant Shanzhai Biennial L2 Rodeo Tamara Henderson L3 Green Tea Gallery United Brothers L4 Galerie Jocelyn Wolff Franz Erhard Walther L5 Silberkuppe Adam Linder L6 gb agency Robert Breer P1Nick Mauss P2Mélanie Matranga P3Jonathan Berger P4Sophia Al Maria P5Tobias Madison A Cally Spooner L6 P8 Offsite SNOWDON AVIARY 15 MIN WALK P6Jérôme Bel Shaw Theatre, 100–110 Euston Road, London NW1 2AJ FRIEZE MASTERS 15 MIN WALK L5 P5 P7 Isabel Lewis ICA offsite: Old Selfridges Hotel 1 Orchard Street, London W1H 6HQ Fenton House, Hampstead Grove, London NW3 6SP P4 EXIT Frieze Talks P3 THE BROADWALK L4 P8 Cerith Wyn Evans Snowdon Aviary, ZSL London Zoo, The Regent’s Park, London NW1 4RY P2 P1 L1 L2 L3 ENTRANCE A SCULPTURE PARK P6 SHAW THEATRE 20 MIN WALK OUTER CIRCLE P7 BAKER STREET 10 MIN WALK ICA OFFSITE: OLD SELFRIDGES HOTEL 25 MIN WALK P7 REGENT’S PARK & GREAT PORTLAND STREET 5 MIN WALK BUS TO FENTON HOUSE & SHUTTLE TO FRIEZE MASTERS A Auditorium Frieze Talks frieze video Frieze Sounds Listening station Also online at: friezeprojectsny.org/sounds Programme Schedule Tuesday 14 October Frieze Projects & Live 10am ongoing P1 Nick Mauss P2 Mélanie Matranga P5 Tobias Madison P8 Cerith Wyn Evans A Cally Spooner L1–6 Live Wednesday 15 October Frieze Talks Frieze Projects & Live Thursday 16 October Frieze Talks Frieze Projects & Live Friday 17 October Frieze Talks Frieze Projects & Live 11.30–1pm A frieze video 11am ongoing P1 Nick Mauss P2 Mélanie Matranga P5 Tobias Madison P8 Cerith Wyn Evans A Cally Spooner L1–6 Live 11.30–1pm A frieze video 11am ongoing P1 Nick Mauss P2 Mélanie Matranga P5 Tobias Madison P8 Cerith Wyn Evans A Cally Spooner L1–6 Live 12.30–1pm P4 Sophia Al Maria Tour 12.30–1pm P4 Sophia Al Maria Tour 1pm L3 Green Tea Gallery Free soup 12.30–1pm P4 Sophia Al Maria Tour 1pm L3 Green Tea Gallery Free soup 1pm L3 Green Tea Gallery Free soup 1pm L3 Green Tea Gallery Free soup 1–2.15pm A Panel: Feeling Used: The Appropriation of Sexuality 1pm L3 Green Tea Gallery Free soup 3–3.30pm P4 Sophia Al Maria Tour 3–4.15pm A Conversation: AA Bronson & Helen Molesworth 3–3.30pm P4 Sophia Al Maria Tour 2.30–4pm Offsite P6 Jérôme Bel Shaw Theatre 6–6.30pm P4 Sophia Al Maria Tour 3–7pm A frieze video 3–3.30pm P4 Sophia Al Maria Tour 5–9pm Offsite P7 Isabel Lewis ICA offsite: Old Selfridges Hotel 6.30pm onward P3 Jonathan Berger 8pm onward P3 Jonathan Berger 8–9.30pm Offsite P6 Jérôme Bel Shaw Theatre Frieze Projects & Live 11am ongoing P1 Nick Mauss P2 Mélanie Matranga P5 Tobias Madison P8 Cerith Wyn Evans A Cally Spooner L1–6 Live 12.30–1pm P4 Sophia Al Maria Tour 5–9pm Offsite P7 Isabel Lewis ICA offsite: Old Selfridges Hotel Frieze Talks Frieze Talks 9am–12pm Offsite P7 Isabel Lewis Fenton House 12.30–1pm P4 Sophia Al Maria Tour 3–3.30pm P4 Sophia Al Maria Tour Saturday 18 October 8–9.30pm Offsite P6 Jérôme Bel Shaw Theatre 2.30–6pm A frieze video 5.30pm Offsite P8 Cerith Wyn Evans Performance ZSL London Zoo 6.30pm onward P3 Jonathan Berger 5–6.15pm A Keynote lecture: Bruce McLean (action sculptor) interviews himself 11.30–12.30pm A frieze video 1.30–2.45pm A Panel: Adventures in the Field: The Anthropological Turn 3–4pm A frieze video 11am ongoing P1 Nick Mauss P2 Mélanie Matranga P5 Tobias Madison P8 Cerith Wyn Evans A Cally Spooner L1–6 Live 3–3.30pm P4 Sophia Al Maria Tour 1.30–2.45pm A Keynote lecture: The Aesthetics of the Invisible Trevor Paglen 3–4pm A frieze video 5–6.15pm A Keynote lecture: An Afternoon of Public Shaming Jon Ronson 5–6.15pm A Conversation: Charles Atlas & Wu Tsang with Stuart Comer 6.30pm onward P3 Jonathan Berger 11.30–12.30pm A frieze video 6.30pm onward P3 Jonathan Berger Frieze Projects Frieze Artist Award Frieze Projects 2014 has been made possible by partnerships with a number of national and international institutions and organisations. These collaborations have been an invaluable part of the commissioning process, and have drawn attention to the ways in which art criss-crosses the fabric of the UK’s cultural ecology. We are grateful to the Arts Council of England for their ongoing support and would like to sincerely thank all the individuals who have provided specific support to each project both on and offsite of the fair. Mélanie Matranga Europe, Europe (2014) Mélanie Matranga A to B coffee P2 between C15 and C16 The Frieze Artist Award is a major new initiative, inviting an emerging artist to realise a new site-specific work at Frieze London as part of the critically acclaimed Frieze Projects programme. The winner of the inaugural Frieze Artist Award is Mélanie Matranga. Matranga has created a series of online videos called ‘From A to B through E’ that follow a young artistic couple as they negotiate ‘freedom, success and the proper functioning of a couple’. The episodes are filmed during the construction of the fair itself, within a purpose-built café that Matranga has designed for use by Frieze London’s visitors. The narrative structure of the videos focuses on the simultaneous construction of both the couple’s relationship and the set of the café. By bringing together these two storylines, the project looks at the confluence of emotional and monetary trade economies. The three-to five-minute episodes are co-directed by Valentin Bouré and broadcast online at friezeprojects.org and thisistomorrow.info Mélanie Matranga (b. 1985, France) is based in Paris. She employs animation, sculpture and installation to create environments that communicate the emotional and intellectual value of their production and economy. The selection committee for the Frieze Artist Award 2014 was Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen (Directors, gta Exhibitions), Nicola Lees (Curator, Frieze Projects), Hilary Lloyd (artist) and Stella Bottai ( Junior Curator, Fiorucci Art Trust). Additional support has been provided by Fluxus Art Projects and Pundersons Gardens. Frieze Projects They Live dir. John Carpenter (1988) Roddy Piper shown, courtesy of MoviestoreCollection/Rex Jérôme Bel Disabled Theatre, Performed by Theater HORA (2012) Jonathan Berger On Creating Reality, by Andy Kaufman. (vitrine #1) (detail) (2013) Isabel Lewis photographed by Joanna Seitz (2014) Sophia Al Maria Jérôme Bel with Theater HORA Disabled Theatre Jonathan Berger On Creating Reality, by Andy Kaufman. An occasion hosted by Isabel Lewis P6 Offsite: Shaw Theatre (14–15 Oct) Tickets at danceumbrella.co.uk P3 opposite D2 in the entrance square P4 tours desk in the exit square* Inspired by the subliminal messages in John Carpenter’s high-concept/low-budget film They Live (1988), Al Maria’s project asks if there is a conspiracy against people who look at art. In the same way that Carpenter’s film proposes that commercial advertising is an occulted mode of mindcontrol, Al Maria’s project questions what an art fair is really saying to its visitors. UV-lit tours of subliminal routes across the fair expose potential conspiracies by pointing out previously invisible icons and messages marking the walls. * Tours are twice daily. Please see the schedule for times. Sophia Al Maria (b.1983, USA) is an artist, writer and filmmaker based in London. In partnership with Dance Umbrella, Frieze Projects brings Jérôme Bel’s critically acclaimed Disabled Theatre to London. This is the UK première of this work, which was originally presented at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels and later in Documenta 13. A collaboration with Theater HORA, a Zurich-based theatre company of professional actors with disabilities, the performance offers a rare insight into lives laid bare on the stage in a way that is both compassionate and vulnerable. During the performance 11 actors react freely, subjectively and often with humour to a series of prompts proposed by Bel. Jérôme Bel (b.1964, France) is a dancer and choreographer living in Paris. Jonathan Berger’s project seeks to act as an investigative portrait of an unclassifiable figure of American cultural history. Best known as an actor and comedian, Andy Kaufman appeared regularly on 1970s and ‘80s American television as well as having an alternative career as an innovator and live performer. For Frieze London, Jonathan Berger presents fragments from Kaufman’s personal life and career, alongside the Overture that was performed at Kaufman’s 1979 variety show Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall. This piece of music was co-conceived by Gregg Sutton, only played on that occasion and not recorded. Present in the space to engage with visitors are Kaufman’s friends, family and collaborators including Michael Kaufman, Wendy ‘Little Wendy’ Polland, Gregg Sutton and Bob Zmuda. Jonathan Berger (b.1980, USA) lives in New York and works across sculpture, performance, archival projects, exhibitions and education. With additional support by New York University, Steinhardt School. Menswear supplied by Moss Bros. P7 Offsite: ICA offsite: Old Selfridges Hotel (14–15 Oct) and Fenton House (17 Oct)* Free Entry In collaboration with ICA, London, Liverpool Biennial and Trust New Art, National Trust, Isabel Lewis hosts a series of occasions in London and in Liverpool’s Sefton Park Palm House. Lewis’ dramaturgy, which includes speaking, DJing, dancing, plants, refreshments and smells by Norwegian chemist and smell researcher Sissel Tolaas, creates an environment attuned to the energies of each occasion and its attending guests. Easing the formalities of distanced observation often found within a theatre or exhibition context, Lewis offers a space of relaxation where the entire human sensorium can be engaged. Visitors can come and go as they please throughout the occasion. * Transportation to Fenton House departs from the Frieze London shuttle bus stop at 9am and returns to the fair for 12pm. A fourth occasion will be announced during the fair. Isabel Lewis (b.1981, Dominican Republic) is an artist of Dominican and American origin. Her work draws from her training in literary criticism, dance, choreography, party and popular culture. Additional support from Peroni. Tobias Madison The Lurking Fear (2014) Nick Mauss Ballet Proposal (2014) Snowdon Aviary at ZSL London Zoo. Constructed 1962–4 Cally Spooner Baby I Got Better Things To Be Doing With My Time (2014) Tobias Madison Nick Mauss Cerith Wyn Evans P5 between G9 and G12 P1 opposite B20 For his first solo project in the UK, Tobias Madison has created a dismantled room at Frieze London, activated by sensory and microbic technology. This room, based on Madison’s previous Frankenstein installation (Supportico Lopez, 2013), becomes both the stage for and the monster itself, as an automated network of pumps circulate liquid at certain moments in a form of theatrical drama. This work presents only a glimpse of the ‘monster’ as it is designed to resist the visitor’s presence. By dismantling and reconstructing the space as an experimental environment, Madison is testing the interplay between viewers and staged architecture. Within the fair, Nick Mauss has constructed a ‘living stage’, on which a new ballet is performed each day. These durational performances take place in a space that has both a visible stage and backstage, responding to the fair environment as a place of constant movement and social dance. The ballet is accompanied and interrupted by newly commissioned texts and music, performed live by Kim Gordon and Juliana Huxtable. Mauss has worked closely with choreographer and Northern Ballet premier dancer Kenneth Tindall and five dancers from the company to develop this piece, with acclaimed choreographer Lorena Randi acting as mentor and dramaturge. Dancers from the National Youth Ballet of Great Britain are also featured. This is the first major performance work by Nick Mauss, who is known mainly for his paintings and sculptures. P8 Offsite: Snowdon Aviary, ZSL London Zoo. Also visible from the path on Regent’s Canal. Cally Spooner Baby I Got Better Things To Be Doing With My Time Tobias Madison (b.1985, Switzerland) lives and works in Zurich. He uses video, text and installation as tools for continuous recording, distribution and thinking. Cerith Wyn Evans has installed a work in the heart of ZSL London Zoo in The Regent’s Park. By creating an exhibition with an audience of both humans and animals, Wyn Evans twists the relationship between the subject and object involved in the viewing process. Important historical references for this work include Gino de Dominicis’ five-day exhibition ‘Zodiaco’ (1970) and Braco Dimitrijevic’s 1998 installations with living animals in the Paris Zoo. The Snowdon Aviary, designed by Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon), Cedric Price and Frank Newby, was one of the first places that Wyn Evans visited when he moved to London in the 1970s. Nick Mauss (b.1980, USA) lives in New York and works at the interstices of different media. Susan Stenger will be part of a special performance on Thursday 16 October at 5.30pm.This is a ticketed event with public viewing available from the canal side. With additional support by 303 Gallery, Campoli Presti, Fiorucci Art Trust, Kvadrat and Sound Directions. Cerith Wyn Evans (b. 1958, UK) incorporates a range of media, including sculpture, film, photography and text into his practice. With additional support by Canal & River Trust. Auditorium For Frieze Film 2014, Cally Spooner creates a series of pop-up, commercial interruptions, screened in between the talks and video programme. These also operate as advertisements for her own forthcoming film. Featuring hired backing dancers performing corrections to an employee’s voice, the commercials arrive as agitated, choreographed dances, building into repetitious sameness, as they accumulate over the course of the fair. Cally Spooner’s project is co-comissioned and produced by High Line Art. Her forthcoming film – a screen adaptation of her 2013 musical And You Were Wonderful, On Stage – will be produced by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 2015, made possible with support from Arts Council England and a production residency at EMPAC, USA. Cally Spooner (b. 1983, UK) is a London-based artist and writer who draws from pop-music, current affairs, corporate rhetoric and philosophical writing to address the automation of speech and attentions, outsourced subjectivity, the hired body as a technology, and our contemporary condition as a state of technical dependency. Frieze Sounds From Frieze New York 2014, Frieze Sounds is a programme featuring three specially commissioned audio works by Keren Cytter, Cally Spooner and Hannah Weinberger. At Frieze London, Frieze Sounds is presented in the VIP cars, via a listening station inside the fair as well as being streamed online at friezeprojectsny.org/sounds. Frieze Sounds is curated by Cecilia Alemani and presented with BMW. Keren Cytter from MOP Museum of Photography (2013) Cally Spooner Baby I Got Better Things To Be Doing With My Time (2014) Hannah Weinberger When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I’ll Think You’re Walking In (2012) Keren Cytter Constant State of Grace Cally Spooner The Ballad Of Work Hannah Weinberger Hey Keren Cytter explores social realities through experimental modes of storytelling. The artist fuses reality and fiction to produce deconstructed dialogues, revealing perception to be as dependent on linguistics as visual structures. For Frieze Sounds, Cytter presents a minimalist composition intended to elevate the souls of visitors and produce a state of near-hypnosis. The composition’s goal is both absurdist and profound. Existing in complete contrast to the high-energy tempo of the fair, Cytter’s audio piece allows for a moment of reprieve and self-awareness amongst the cacophonous crowd. Cally Spooner is known for her live performances, novellas and films that investigate the philosophical underpinnings of language, and the movement and behaviour of speech. For Frieze Sounds, Spooner presents the theme song from the soundtrack to her upcoming film. Appropriated from the work place, re-crafted by Spooner, and composed by her long-term collaborator Peter Joslyn, the song is scored from instructions between an employer and employee; the enforced repetitions and endless corrections shaping the employee’s natural speech into the voice of the corporation. Hannah Weinberger investigates the impact of digitization on sound, employing technologies readily available online. Her audio works emphasize the ability of commerce and media to shape behaviour through music. For Frieze Sounds, Weinberger debuts Hey, a composition where the bass of the sound track is the frequency of her unborn baby’s heartbeat, which is then overlaid with field recordings. By incorporating these different layers, Weinberger expands the sensorial landscape of the fair, transforming immaterial ambience into a symphony of social interaction. Keren Cytter (b. 1977, Tel Aviv) lives and works in New York. Cally Spooner (b. 1983, Ascot) lives and works in London. Hannah Weinberger (b. 1988, Filderstadt) lives and works in Basel and Zurich. Frieze Talks Frieze Talks is a programme of panel discussions, conversations and keynote lectures curated by frieze magazine editors Jörg Heiser, Christy Lange and Amy Sherlock. This year, the programme considers some of the most topical subjects in today’s cultural landscape, exploring how contemporary artists and curators address issues of performance, sexuality and public and private identities. Frieze Talks takes place in the fair’s auditorium and access is included in the admission ticket. Seats for the talks can be individually booked on the day at the auditorium from 12pm. Screened alongside the talks, frieze video is a strand of arts films and documentaries encompassing interviews, essays and reports from art events around the world, including a visit to artist Sturtevant in Paris, a reflection on this year’s Marrakech Biennale and Our Glasgow (2014), a 30-minute film about Glasgow’s art scene, past and present. frieze video can also be viewed online at video.frieze.com. Linder What I Do To Please You I Do (1981–2008) © the artist,courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art Bruce McLean Pose Work for Plinths 3 (1971) courtesy: the artist, Bernard Jacobson Gallery and Tanya Leighton Gallery Thursday 16 October 5–6.15pm Bruce McLean (action sculptor) interviews himself 1–2.15pm Feeling Used: The Appropriation of Sexuality Jennifer Doyle (writer and academic, LA) Simon Fujiwara (artist, Berlin) Linder (artist and musician, Morecambe) Chair: Paul Clinton (writer, curator, and Editorial Assistant, frieze, London) The past few years have seen a slew of exhibition and projects that draw upon queer and alternative sexualities, not always by artists who identify with those desires. This panel asks what it means to appropriate sex and who has access, or the right to access, such imagery. 3–4.15pm Queer Spirits and Other Invocations AA Bronson (artist, Berlin & Toronto) in conversation with Helen Molesworth (Chief Curator, MOCA, LA) Helen Molesworth, recently appointed Chief Curator at MOCA, Los Angeles, discusses the topic of ‘Queer Spirits and Other Invocations’ with AA Bronson, artist, healer and founding member of General Idea. Bruce McLean (artist, London) Since the late 1960s, Scottish artist Bruce McLean has fervently – and often hilariously – challenged formal academicism, embracing impermanent sculptures, unconventional settings and a witty, ironic approach to performance. Frequently using his own body in an investigation of what he calls ‘the condition of sculpture’, McLean’s contribution to Frieze Talks offers a precious opportunity to witness a newly created live lecture/performance. Live Wu Tsang, still from A day in the life of bliss (2014) © the artist, courtesy: Clifton Benevento & Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie Trevor Paglen © the artist, courtesy: Metro Pictures Friday 17 October Saturday 18 October 11.30–12.30pm frieze video 11.30–12.30pm frieze video 1.30–2.45pm Adventures in the Field: The Anthropological Turn 1.30–2.45pm Aesthetics of the Invisible Iman Issa (artist, Cairo & NY) Naeem Mohaiemien (artist and writer, Dhaka & NY) Dieter Roelstraete (Senior Curator, MCA, Chicago) Chair: Kaelen Wilson-Goldie (writer, Beirut) Are artists turning to ethnography, archeology, and museology to question the politics and history of our time, or to restore the magic and wonder of their process? Trevor Paglen (artist, NY) Omar Kholeif (Curator, Whitechapel Gallery, London) Recently honoured with a Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for his groundbreaking artwork, writing and research in the field of experimental geography, Trevor Paglen discusses the aesthetics of representing the things we cannot see. His lecture will be followed by a Q&A with Omar Kholeif. 3–4pm frieze video 3–4pm frieze video 5–6.15pm An Afternoon of Public Shaming 5–6.15pm Charles Atlas (artist, NY) in conversation with Wu Tsang (filmmaker and artist, LA) Moderated by Stuart Comer (Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art, MoMA, NY) His career spanning over four decades, Charles Atlas is in conversation with acclaimed artist and 2014 Rockefeller Bellagio Creative Arts Fellow Wu Tsang. Jon Ronson (writer, London & NY) Author of the bestselling The Psychopath Test (2011) and The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), and co-writer of the film Frank (2014), Jon Ronson shares insights from his upcoming book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (Picador, March 2015). Live is a new section for Frieze London 2014 that provides a platform for ambitious, active and performance-based installations. Placing experimental art practice at the heart of the fair, Live 2014 features six selected galleries showing works specially conceived for the fair alongside the restaging of a number of significant historical pieces. These works are integrated with the architecture of Frieze London; staged both on gallery stands and in public spaces throughout the fair. The selection is advised by curator Nicola Lees. Live is supported by Alexander McQueen. Robert Breer Floats at the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion, Osaka (1970) United Brothers Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent? (2014) Model Wutingting wears SB2 gown at Opening Gala for expo1 MoMA sculpture garden, May 11, 2013. Tamara Henderson, still from What’s up Doc? (2014) Robert Breer Floats United Brothers Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent? Shanzhai Biennial Shanzhai Biennial No.3 Tamara Henderson Resorting L1 Project Native Informant L2 Rodeo L3 Green Tea Gallery Shanzhai Biennial describes itself as ‘a multinational brand posing as an art project posing as a multinational brand posing as a biennial’. For Frieze London, Shanzhai Biennial reconceives Frieze as a lifestyle brand with products available for purchase. Tamara Henderson presents Resorting, a sculptural interior décor that creates a charged impressionable experience. Inspired by the idea of ‘vacationing’, each element of the installation enforces relaxation. L6 gb agency The restaging of Robert Breer’s self-propelled Floats brings to life a piece originally created for Experiments in Art and Technology at the 1970 World’s Fair in Osaka, the slow motion of which gives viewers the disarming sensation that they themselves are moving whilst actually remaining motionless. The Floats move around a public space within the fair, retreating from any solid edges or obstacles they encounter. Born in 1926 in Detroit, USA, Robert Breer died in 2011. His work comprises of moving sculpture, painting, drawing and film and is characterised by a dialogue between these processes. In Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent?, United Brothers present a dilemma to fair visitors, by offering portions of soup, made by their mother from vegetables grown within the region of Fukushima’s 2011 nuclear disaster. United Brothers are serving free soup daily from 1pm, while it lasts. Based in Iwaki, Japan, Tomoo and Ei Arakawa founded United Brothers and the itinerant Green Tea Gallery in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, inviting international artists to collaborate on new projects in the region. Founded in 2012, Shanzhai Biennial is a New York-based collective comprising of artist Cyril Duval (a.k.a. Item Idem), stylist Avena Gallagher and Babak Radboy, Creative Director of Bidoun magazine. Tamara Henderson was born in Sackville in 1982 and lives and works in Stockholm and Vancouver. Her work was included in Documenta 13, Kassel (2012) and recent exhibitions include ‘Evergreen Minutes of the Phantom Figure’, Kunstverein Nürnberg (2013). Frieze London 2014 ‘A must-see event’ The Guardian ‘Essential viewing for everyone interested in cutting-edge contemporary art’ Financial Times Adam Linder Some Cleaning (2013) Franz Erhard Walther Sehkanal (1.Werksatz No. 46) (1968) Adam Linder Choreographic Service No. 2: Some Proximity Franz Erhard Walther Sehkanal (1.Werksatz No. 46) and Winkel L5 Silberkuppe L4 Galerie Jocelyn Wolff Choreographic Service No.2: Some Proximity is demonstrated in the booth; available for hire after the fair. Two dancers and an art writer work in real-time on variations of proximity between their two positions. The public is invited to animate two historic works, Sehkanal (1.Werksatz No. 46) (1968) and Winkel (1975) by Franz Erhard Walther, a pioneer of action-based sculpture since the late 1960s. Adam Linder was born in 1983 in Australia and lives in Berlin. His works – either staged in theatres or Choreographic Services – play out as interruptions of cultural tendencies. His performance works have been presented at venues including Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin and Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (both 2013). Franz Erhard Walther was born in Fulda, Germany in 1939, where he continues to live and work. Exhibitions in 2014 include the WIELS Centre d’art contemporain, Brussels and CAPC, Bordeaux. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australian Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Redesigned for 2014, Frieze London features over 160 of the most exciting contemporary art galleries and introduces Live, an inspiring new section dedicated to ambitious, active and performancebased installations. In addition, visitors can experience specially commissioned artists’ projects realised at the fair and in a number of offsite locations, as well as a prestigious talks programme. New Opening Days Preview Day: Tuesday 14 October (by invitation only) Professional Day: Wednesday 15 October 12–7pm (premium tickets only) Thursday 16 October 12–7pm Friday 17 October 12–7pm Saturday 18 October 12–7pm The fair will not open on Sunday. Tours Discover a selection of fascinating highlights by taking a guided tour of the fair. Private tours tailored to your needs are also available. Contact tours@frieze.com or visit the tours desk at the fair. Tours are presented in association with the Art Fund. Frieze Education A Family Guide is available for free at the fair. It is conceived by Chris Beauregard, illustrated by Nous Vous and generously supported by Deutsche Bank. Tours of the fair led by artist and educator Katriona Beales are available for young people. Contact tours@frieze.com or visit the tours desk at the fair. Frieze Masters 2014 Coinciding with Frieze London, Frieze Masters presents historical art in a unique contemporary context. The fair features the world’s leading galleries showcasing artworks ranging from the ancient era and old masters to the late 20th century. Frieze Masters also includes a programme of talks in which leading artists discuss the historical works that inspire them. friezemasters.com Tickets Tickets are limited and advance booking is essential to guarantee entry. Booking fees apply. Frieze London Frieze London & Frieze Masters* One Day £33 £50 Premium £56 n/a Students £24n/a 13–18 years £21 n/a 12 and under free free * Same day visit Book now at friezelondon.com Collared Dove Media partner Associate sponsor
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