Frieze Projects
Frieze Art Fair
12-15 October 2006
Regents Park, London
http://www.frieze.com
Frieze Projects
Frieze Projects is the curatorial programme presented annually at
Frieze Art
Fair, and comprises Frieze Commissions, Frieze Talks and The Cartier
Award.
Frieze Commissions
Frieze Commissions features site-specific works realized in and around
the fair
and a daily film programme in The Artists Cinema.
Four new projects by Lara Almarcegui, Pablo Bronstein, Loris
Gréaud and
Mike Nelson take as their subject the architectural dynamic of the
fair and
explore ideas of visibility and display in this spectacular context.
Mika Rottenberg, first recipient of The Cartier Award, presents a new
video
installation.
In collaboration with LUX, Manon de Boer, Miguel Calderón,
Bonnie
Camplin, Phil Collins, Apichatpong Weerasethakul have been
commissioned to make
short 35 mm films that will premiere at the fair. Subsequently these
films will
tour to a selection of UK cinemas, through the Independent Cinema
Office, where
they will be shown before main features.
A festival of artists? film and video will take place in The Artists
Cinema,
including daily screenings of the commissions alongside an invited
programme of
film and video and expanded cinema performances. The invited
programmes are
selected by Stuart Comer, Sharon Lockhart, The Otolith Group, Cristina
Ricupero, Christine Tohme and Maria-Christina Villaseñor. Daily
events
include performances by k2 Aufbau Organisation and Lindsay Ljungkull,
special
projects with Yoko Ono and Sharon Hayes and expanded cinema, curated
by Mark
Webber by Gill Eatherley and Malcolm Le Grice. The Artists Cinema is
produced
in collaboration with LUX and is co-ordinated by Ian White.
The collaborating institutions presenting projects in 2006 are
Platform Garanti,
Istanbul and Project Arts Centre, Dublin, plus Resonance104.4fm,
London?s art
radio station. Resonance will be broadcasting Frieze Talks live from
the fair
along with specially commissioned radio art projects.
Frieze Talks
Frieze Talks features leading art-world figures, philosophers and
critical
theorists debating the prevailing issues in aesthetics, ethics, art
production
and the wider cultural sphere. This year?s four days of Frieze Talks
are
themed: ?Taste?, ?Performance?, ?Criticality? and ?Architecture
& Atmospherics? and take the format of panel discussions,
conversations
and keynote lectures. Speakers include:
Marina Abramovic, Carlo Antonelli, Jean Baudrillard, Claire Bishop,
Francesco
Bonami, Svetlana Boym, Gavin Butt, Steven Connor, Eda Cufer, Brian
Dillon,
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Liam Gillick, Thelma Golden,
Wade Guyton,
Joerg Heiser, Charline von Heyl, Susan Hiller, Lu Jie, Roland Kapferer,
Július Koller, Surasi Kusolwong, Darian Leader, Sylvere
Lotringer, Achille Mbembe, Jeremy Millar, Adrian Piper, Marjetica
Potrc, Alice
Rawsthorn, Saskia Sassen, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lucy Soutter, Frances
Stark,
Jan Verwoert, Eyal Weizman, Tirdad Zolghadr
Frieze Projects: Artists? Commissions & Talks 2003?2005 is a new
book
that records the curatorial programme produced at the fair over the
past three
years. It features texts from the lectures and panel discussions, as
well as
essays on the commissioned projects. Published in October and
available from
Frieze Art Fair and all good bookshops world-wide.
Frieze Projects is curated by Polly Staple and commissioned under the
auspices
of Frieze Foundation and presented in association with Cartier. Frieze
Foundation is generously supported by the Culture 2000 programme of the
European Union (2005-07), Arts Council England and Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation.
Access to Frieze Projects is included in the Frieze Art Fair admission
ticket.
Please note some events have a limited capacity. For more information
please
visit: http://www.frieze.com
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