[spectre] Frieze Projects : Frieze Art Fair

[Geert Lovink]

> 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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