Frieze Sounds
Frieze New York
Frieze Sounds expands the artistic scope of the fair by activating the viewer’s
experience through sound. The program is presented with BMW and curated
by Cecilia Alemani. Premiering in the VIP cars, the Frieze Sounds program
is also accessible inside the fair via a listening station located between D21
and D22 and is streamed online at friezeprojectsny.org
May 14–17, 2015, Randall’s Island Park
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SOUTH
ENTRANCE
P1
P6
SOUTH
ENTRANCE
NORTH
ENTRANCE
P1
P2
P1
P3
P1
P4
Frieze Sounds © Jonathan Hökklo (2014)
Xaviera Simmons
Number 18
Alicja Kwade’s installations
are often pervaded by
repeated industrial noises
which render palpable the
frenetic energy of ticking
clocks and spinning tops,
even when her exhibited
objects seem outwardly
still. For Frieze Sounds,
Kwade presents a sound work
composed by a collage of 200
cutouts taken from movies,
recording the moment in
which actors – mostly
women – see a diamond
and react to it with a mixture
of joy, surprise and lust.
Xaviera Simmons works in
performance, photography,
video, sound and installation.
For Frieze Sounds, Simmons
has crafted a newly scored
audio work where language
builds an in-between
landscape; where multiple
languages are in a movement
that recalls a repetitive wave
like gesture between and
in-between the territory
of the sailor and the siren.
Sponsor
Sergei Tcherepnin
Metal Mixing Water
Piano
Sergei Tcherepnin
produces performances and
installations incorporating
electronic and acoustic sound.
For Frieze Sounds, the artist
made a collage of re-recorded
piano improvisations he made
in the last 15 years, remixing
older degraded tapes in a new
compilation where the sound
is played through surface
transducers attached to brass
sheets of various sizes.
FERRY
PIER
Frieze Projects
Frieze Sounds
P1
Korakrit Arunanondchai
Listening Station
denim massage chairs (growing up together)
Between D21 and D22
P2
Pia Camil
Alicja Kwade
Wearing – watching
Xaviera Simmons
P3
Samara Golden
Number 18
Always smile at the mask of hate for it covers
a sad face
P4
Aki Sasamoto
Coffee/Tea
P5
Allyson Vieira
Colossus
P6
Tribute to the Flux-Labyrinth (1976/2015)
Randall’s Island Park
May 14–17, 2015
Preview Day
Wednesday, May 13
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P5
Alicja Kwade
Grosses C
New York
Grosses C
Sergei Tcherepnin
Metal Mixing Water Piano
Frieze Projects
Korakrit Arunanondchai, Untitled
(Pillows) (2014)
Al's Grand Hotel (2014)
This year sees the fourth edition of Frieze Projects New York, a series
of specially commissioned, site-specific artists’ projects realized and presented
on the occasion of Frieze New York 2015 on Randall’s Island Park. Curated
by Cecilia Alemani, this year’s program includes sculptural environments
and performative spaces involving intricate mazes, intimate hideouts
and immersive installations.
Projects are dispersed both inside and outside the fair architecture – installed
among booths, in common areas, or even hidden within the fair’s layout –
interrupting or diverting circulation patterns and the typical flow of events.
All this year's participating artists share an interest in constructing new spaces,
both physical and fictional, where it is possible to relax, play and explore.
Together, they invite visitors to plunge into the alternate reality of intimate,
temporary installations.
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Samara Golden The Flat Side of
the Knife (2014)
Aki Sasamoto Wrong Happy Hour
– Wall/Door 11.2.2014 (2014)
Allyson Vieira Multi Story III
(2014)
Flux-Labyrinth, Walker Art Center
(1993)
Korakrit
Pia Camil
Wearing – watching
Arunanondchai
denim massage chairs P2 close to A1
(growing up together) Inspired by Hélio Oiticica’s
Samara Golden
Always smile at
the mask of hate for
it covers a sad face
Aki Sasamoto
Coffee/Tea
Allyson Vieira
Colossus
P4 between B55 and B56
P5 outside the fair’s
North entrance
Tribute to the
Flux-Labyrinth
(1976–2015)
P1 various locations
throughout the fair
P3 outside the fair,
under the tent towards
the North entrance
Korakrit Arunanondchai
creates immersive environments where viewers can lose
themselves in a multisensory
space. A series of high-tech
massage chairs positioned
throughout the fair welcome
visitors, allowing them to
relax and take a break from
the dizzying pace of the fair.
Upholstered with the artist’s
signature material – bleached
denim – the chairs function
as a place of rest and
contemplation for which the
artist has also realized an
hypnotic sound track, based
upon a conversation he and
his twin brother had at Frieze
London 2014.
In collaboration with
Korapat Arunanondchai
and Harry Bornstein.
Pia Camil Entrecortinas: Abre, Jala,
Corre (2014)
Parangolé – a series of capes,
flags and banners to be worn
as ‘habitable paintings’ –
Pia Camil’s project functions
as a portable environment.
A series of wearable fabrics
designed by the artist and
produced in collaboration
with Mexican artisans
are distributed freely to fair
visitors. Camil’s fabrics
allow for versatile uses
including clothing – such as
robes or ponchos – and more
utilitarian functions – such as
picnic blankets, tablecloths
and sheets. Camil’s textiles
require direct participation,
quietly emphasizing the
characteristic experience of
the art fair, where the act of
looking at art is as important
as the act of looking at others
and distinguishing oneself
from them.
Samara Golden’s project
unveils the different physical,
social and psychological
components of the art fair.
For Frieze Projects,
Golden built a secret room
underneath the tent that is
only visible from the outside.
The hidden chamber is tiled
with mirrors and features
a sculptural environment
that integrates the tent’s
infrastructure including its
supporting pillars, air
conditioning pipes and
electricity cables, which all
become part of the work.
As in an archeological site,
Golden’s installation reveals
the underbelly of the fair,
which is usually invisible
to fairgoers.
Aki Sasamoto realized a
three-dimensional version
of a personality test assessed
via multiple-choice
questionnaire. A maze-like
structure built within the
grid of the galleries’ booths,
Sasamoto’s project consists
of several rooms in which
viewers face a choice
between two objects or
situations. Various choices
lead through to a succession
of rooms and doors and
eventually to the exit, where
participants discover which
personality best suits the
course of action they selected.
Visitors are greeted by
Allyson Vieira’s colossal
installation. Inspired by
archeological sites of
antiquity, the artist installed
a series of monumental
blocks evoking a gigantic
fallen column. However,
unlike its classical
predecessors, Vieira’s column
is made of an unusual
material: compressed bales
of plastic and foam sheeting.
These blocks are a 21st
century commodity,
a new raw material, made
for export to China where
they will be reprocessed
into plastic consumer goods
for sale in American
big-box stores. Vieira’s
sculpture evokes the survival
of classical forms even in
the most prosaic of realities,
while acknowledging the
inevitable degradation
of materials over time.
P6 between D12
and the restaurant
Frieze Projects 2015 pays
tribute to the Flux-Labyrinth,
an immersive environment
originally conceived by
George Maciunas in
collaboration with many
other Fluxus artists including
Larry Miller, Nam June Paik,
Ay-O. For this tribute,
alongside new reconstructions
of some of the original
interventions, a group of
contemporary artists has
been invited to create new
sculptures and situations
within a maze structure made
from several narrow corridors
and rooms. Obstructions and
hurdles turn the experience
of traversing the space into
a joyful and surreal exercise.
The tribute to the FluxLabyrinth forms a diverting
obstacle course, taking
viewers on a journey through
the most remote folds of
the fair.