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 [email protected]
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 [email protected] 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
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