Frieze New York 2013 takes place from May 10th to 13th, 2013 and presents over 180 of the world’s leading galleries. Frieze Sounds is a part of the fair, programmed and curated by Cecilia Alemani. Specially commissioned audio works were created by the artists Trisha Baga, Charles Atlas and New Humans, as well as Haroon Mirza. “Each of the participants has taken a different approach to this brief,’ Alemani explained. ‘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.”
BMW VIP Shuttle playing the Frieze Sounds at the Frieze Art Fair
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 and New Humans (Mika Tajima and Howie Chen) 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 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.
These specially commissioned works will be played in VIP shuttle cars supplied to the fair by BMW.
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