MADELINE HOLLANDER DEVOILE « SUNRISE/SUNSET » DANS LE CADRE DU BMW OPEN WORK. CETTE INSTALLATION SPECIFIQUE EST PRESENTEE POUR LA PREMIERE FOIS A FRIEZE LONDON 2021.

Pour la cinquième année consécutive, BMW et Frieze poursuivent leur partenariat à long terme avec l’initiative artistique majeure BMW Open Work by Frieze. L’artiste sélectionnée par la commissaire Attilia Fattori Franchini est Madeline Hollander, basée à Los Angeles, qui présentera une installation en direct, spécifique au site, dans le BMW Lounge de Frieze London, du 13 au 17 octobre 2021.

Munich/London. For the fifth consecutive year, BMW and Frieze continue their long-term partnership with the major art initiative BMW Open Work by Frieze. Drawing inspiration from BMW engineering the project brings together art, technology and design in pioneering multi-platform formats. The artist selected by curator Attilia Fattori Franchini to create the latest edition of BMW Open Work by Frieze is the Los Angeles-based Madeline Hollander, who introduced the commission through an interactive digital platform and livery intervention on BMW i3 electric vehicles during Frieze Week 2020, and will present a live, site-specific installation in the BMW Lounge at Frieze London in 2021. As in previous years, BMW will also provide the VIP shuttle service transporting the fair’s VIP guests with the new all electric BMW iX.

Working with performance, film and installation, Hollander explores how the human body in motion negotiates its limits within everyday systems of technology and engineering, industrial apparatus, intellectual property and daily rituals. Her performances and installations present perpetually looping events that intervene within spatial, psychological and temporal landscapes, and engage with novel modes of viewership. Titled “Sunrise/Sunset” the project continues the artist’s recent research into traffic patterns and working without human actors to depict unseen systems or processes. Emerging from an inspiring dialogue with the department responsible for sustainability at BMW Group and investigation into the automatic adaptive system of BMW headlights, Hollander created for Frieze London 2021, a site-specific, and self-sufficient, live installation composed of one hundred  recycled BMW LED headlights from the BMW Group Recycling and Dismantling Centre. Thus, the artist developed an energetic loop, a networked map choreographed by the sunsets and sunrises across the globe. Fascinated by the responsive nature of headlights technology which reacts to a number of factors such as movement, light and weather conditions, the artist synced each headlight to different time zones creating a live and ceaseless global clock. In Hollander’s work our apparently erratic individual actions and everyday technologies synchronically align, becoming a collective, and in this case cascading-dance. The installation is accompanied by an original score created for the occasion by the composer Celia Hollander.

In addition to Madeline Hollander’s commission for BMW Open Work by Frieze, Superblue and BMW i will present the world premiere of “No One is an Island”, a collaboration between Random International and Studio Wayne McGregor. “No One is an Island” is fuelled by science and explores electrified movement steered by advanced algorithms. It is a future-oriented reflection on how the human mind empathises with artificial intelligence and automated processes. The performance comprises sculptural, performative, and musical aspects.

The centrepiece is a sculpture by Random International that experiments with the minimal amount of information that is actually necessary for an animated form to be recognised as human; and the fundamental impact created by subtle changes within that information. As it transitions from robot to human likeness, dancers from Company Wayne McGregor interact with the sculpture in a live, kinetic performance, further exploring the relationship between humans and technology and our capacity to empathise with a machine. The dancer’s interventions scored by Chihei Hatakeyama add a performative dimension to the sculpture, re-translating and celebrating the connection between human and mechanical movement. On the occasion of Frieze London, the installation will be shown publicly  from October 13 to 16 daily between 3:00 and 7:00pm at Park Village Studios. To visit, please register here.

BMW Open Work by Frieze
Now in its fifth year, and curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, BMW Open Work by Frieze gives artists and researchers a platform to push the boundaries of their work, starting the project with a creative dialogue between arts, technology, engineering and design to pursue their practice in innovative new directions. For its premier in 2017, artist Olivia Erlanger integrated a motion-sensitive sculpture, audio and immersive fog in her work “Body Electric”; in 2018, Sam Lewitt engaged with BMW intellectual property and engine production to conceptually and physically explore the production cycle of a BMW engine in “CORE (the ‘Work’)”; in 2019, Camille Blatrix collaborated with BMW Individual to explore the primal and emotional relationships to labor and materiality, raising questions about functionality and desire in the installation “Sirens”.

Frieze Music
BMW and Frieze have partnered for Frieze Music once again to present British singer and songwriter Baka. A short performance will be followed by an intimate conversation about the intersection of music and arts. This evening will be available to watch and listen on IGTV @friezeofficial from October 16, 2021.