Looking into forces and instructions present across time that dictate how we move and what we feel, the fair’s program for time-based works is again curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt (Who featured in issue3 of Art of Conversation ). Featuring performances and time-based works by Cecilia Bengolea, Shezad Dawood and Sophie Jung among many others.
Shezad Dawood, University of NonDualism, 2019, commissioned by Frieze Live and Dhaka Art Summit, generously supported by The Bagri Foundation
The practice of radical innovator in choreography and dance, William Forsythe, is the entry point for LIVE 2019. In addition to his ground-breaking work in the field of classical ballet, Forsythe has worked for more than 20 years on installations, film works, and discrete, interactive sculptures, which he calls ‘choreographic objects’. Campbell Betancourt said: ‘Forsythe recently likened the political environment of today with the 19th-century choreography of the Giselle variation of Act 1 (one of the most difficult works to perform in classical ballet): we are directed to perform in the face of unthinkable pain without uttering a word.
To be part of a movement, we have to be moved, as the feminist theorist Sara Ahmed writes in Living a Feminist Life (2017). This year’s LIVE programme aims to inspire a physical form of thinking where solutions can be found and felt within the body. Exploring the expanded field of dance and choreography in the context of the fair, interventions by artists from wide-ranging contexts from Argentina to Cambodia will reveal narratives of control present in architecture, language, colonialism, and protest illuminated through movement.’
The selected artists and galleries for LIVE 2019 are:
Carlos Amorales (presented by Nils Staerk)
Cecilia Bengolea (presented by Almine Rech, with support from FLUXUS)
Performances: 5pm, Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 October
Shezad Dawood (presented by Jhaveri Contemporary and Timothy Taylor with support from Bagri Foundation; featuring costume design by Priya Ahluwalia and sound score by patten)
Performances: 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:30pm, daily
William Forsythe (presented by Gagosian)
Yasmin Jahan Nupur (presented by Exhibit 320, co-commissioned with Dhaka Art Summit and Peabody Essex Museum) Performances: 3–6pm, daily
Sophie Jung (as Featured in Issue 2 of Art of Conversation) (presented by Sophie Tappeiner) Performance: 6pm, Saturday 5 October
Khvay Samnang (presented by Tomio Koyama with support from Delfina Foundation, choreographers and dancers by Mot Pharan with Sot Sovanndy) Performances: 3pm, daily
Oskar Schlemmer (presented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac) Performances: 4pm, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday
Frieze London and Frieze Masters return to Regent’s Park from 3 to 6 October 2019.
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