Frieze Art Fair New York and BMW will once again present Frieze Sounds, a program of sound works that are showcased in the BMW 7 Series shuttle service at the fair. For this unique event three specially commissioned audio works were created by the artists Trisha Baga, Charles Atlas and New Humans, as well as Haroon Mirza. Frieze Sounds is programmed and curated by Cecilia Alemani. “Each of the participants has taken a different approach to this brief: Trisha Baga will estrange everyday noise; Charles Atlas and New Humans will use their own voices whereas Haroon Mirza will employ the noise of the fair itself. I look forward to each of them,” Alemani said prior to the event.
“These special commissioned works selected by Frieze heighten the VIP shuttle service and can extend the fair visit to even include the drive home,” said Ludwig Willisch, President and CEO, BMW of North America.
The BMW 7 Series, where the audio works will be played, is the company’s flagship sedan and is the ultimate in performance and luxury. The BMW 7 Series not only sets a new dynamic benchmark for luxury cars, it also raises the bar in its class when it comes to ride comfort as the car offers a first-class environment for the driver as well as for rear passengers. The engine delivers 445 horsepower and accelerates from 0 to 60 miles in 4.7 seconds.
Since 2004, BMW has powered the Frieze Art Fair VIP shuttle service in London and expanded with Frieze Art to New York last year.
BMW maintains long-term and sustainable partnerships with the most important and prestigious art fairs around the world. Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze Art Fair and Frieze Masters in London, Frieze New York, Paris Photo, and the Gallery Weekend Berlin are only a few examples. Together with the partners, new formats are developed that place art fairs and their visitors to an even greater extent in the focus of an exchange of ideas and thoughts.
With more than 100 cooperations worldwide, BMW Group cultural commitment has been an essential part of corporate communications for over 40 years now. Unrestricted freedom of creative potential is of the utmost importance, as it is equally as crucial for the field of art as it is for groundbreaking innovations within a business enterprise. The BMW Group places the main focus of its cultural commitment on modern and contemporary art, jazz and classical music as well as architecture and design.
Trisha Baga (b. 1985, Venice, Florida, USA)
Trisha Baga is known for intricate installations that combine psychedelic projections, sculptural assemblages, and arrangements of found youtube videos combined with audio recordings. For Frieze Sounds, she will present Hercules Radio, a sound work that remixes sounds from disparate sources including Hollywood movie scores, everyday noises, ominous weather channel forecasts and voiceovers in several different languages. In this work, the artist highlights the tonal quality of language, rather than its content, composing the soundtrack for an imaginary journey that takes the listener through an array of fluid identities and incongruous locations.Charles Atlas (b. 1958 St. Louis, Missouri, USA) and New Humans (Mika Tajima b. 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA/Howie Chen b. 1976, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Charles Atlas and New Humans have previously collaborated on a number of projects at the intersection of sound, installation and performance, including film productions as performance, sculptural installations, music events and live video presentations. For Frieze Sounds, Atlas and New Humans extend their collaboration into a new aural experience, utilizing electronically fractured vocals by Atlas and Tajima. A poem-like babble of unrelated words, the work articulates the flow of global materials, information and people extracted from distant places made readily accessible and mundane – the soundtrack and backdrop for urban island life.Haroon Mirza (b. 1977, London, UK)
Haroon Mirza has been investigating the generative power of sound and noise in a series of architectural installations and kinetic sculptures that play with our perceptions of space. For Frieze Sounds, Mirza will work closely with the fair environment and the sounds generated by the visitors of the fair. Microphones installed inside the fair’s tent will absorb background noises and the sounds of people moving through the booths, bringing the listener to focus on that universe of unheard voices that pervade public spaces.Frieze Art New York
Frieze New York 2013 takes place May 10–13, 2013 and presents over 180 of the world’s leading galleries. Designed by Brooklyn-based architects SO – IL, Frieze New York is housed in a bespoke temporary structure located in the unique setting of Randall’s Island Park, Manhattan, overlooking the East River. Frieze New York is sponsored by Deutsche Bank.
