THE ARTISTS CINEMA at Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park, London
12 - 15 October 2006

The Artists Cinema is a major initiative by Frieze Projects and LUX, designed to focus on the increasing importance of cinema as a mode of exhibition for contemporary artists.

Frieze Projects/LUX film commissions will be shown alongside daily screenings of an invited programme of film and video, selected by specialist film and video artists and curators, and expanded cinema performances in The Artists Cinema. The Artists Cinema is co-ordinated by Ian White and supported by Arts Council England.

You can also download a PDF of the Artists Cinema Programme (267k).

Curators:

• Stuart Comer (Curator: Film at Tate Modern)
• Sharon Lockhart (Artist)
• The Otolith Group (Artist Curator and Theorist Collective)
• Cristina Ricupero (Curator)
• Christine Tohme (Curator & founding member of the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts - Ashkal Alwan)
• Maria-Christina Villaseñor (Associate Curator of Film & Media at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
  New York)

Expanded Cinema Works

• Stephan Dillemuth & k2 Aufbau Organisation
• Yoko Ono
• Gill Eatherley & Malcolm Le Grice expanded works (curated by Mark Webber)

35mm Film Commissions
Frieze Projects and LUX will commission 35mm artists’ films to be premiered at the fair. These films will be screened twice daily at the fair in the Artists Cinema. These commissions will subsequently tour cinemas around the UK, showing before main features, through the Independent Cinema Office.

Manon de Boer
Manon de Boer (b. 1966) is a Dutch artist based in Brussels.
Recent group exhibitions include ‘Don Quiote’, Witte de With, Rotterdam, (2006), ‘Documentary Creations’, Kunst Museum, Luzern (2005) and ‘Nederland niet Nederland’, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2004). De Boer’s Zilm Sylvia Kristel – Paris (2003) has been screened in numerous international film festivals since 2003, (including Hong Kong, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Montreal).

De Boer’s film Resonating Surfaces (2005) has been included in the International Film Festival, Rotterdam and is in the prestigious International Competition FID (Festival Internationale Documentaire), Marseille (2006) She was previously awarded the Prix Georges de Beauregard at Marseille in 2004. This Frieze Projects/LUX commission will be de Boer’s first 35mm film production.

Miguel Calderón
Miguel Calderón (b. 1971) is a Mexican artist based in Mexico City.
Calderón has a prolific history of exhibitions and projects, participating in the seminal survey exhibition‘Ultra Baroque: Aspects of Post Latin American Art’ which toured multiple museum venues in the USA during 2001.

Recent group exhibitions include ‘In the Air: Projections of Mexico’, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and ‘Prometer no empobrece: arte contemporáneo mexicano’, Reina Sofía National Art Museum, Madrid (both 2005). Calderón has recently shown in the Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2005), the Sharjah Biennale, United Arab Emirates (2005) and the Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil (2004).

Calderón has shown his videos in numerous film festivals and has also directed music videos and was the lead singer in the bands Mazinger Z and Intestino Grueso. In 1994 he established the artist-run space La Panadería, Mexico City. Forthcoming projects include the Busan Biennale (2006). This Projects/LUX commission will be Calderón’s first 35mm film production.

Bonnie Camplin
Bonnie Camplin (b. 1970) is a British artist based in London.

Recent exhibitions include ‘A Meeting at Conway Hall’, Conway Hall, commissioned by Book Works, London (2004) and ‘The Best Book About Pessimism I Ever Read’ Kuntsverein, Braunschweig (2002). Camplin is a member of the group Donateller with Mark Leckey and Ed Laliq and has recently released a solo LP of her experimental music Heavy Epic LP featured in Dan Fox’s end of year round up ‘Music 2005’, frieze. Camplin is currently collaborating on a short film with Paulina Olowska to be shown at Weils Contemporary Art Center, Brussels. This Frieze Projects/LUX commission will be Camplin’s first 35mm film production.

Phil Collins
Phil Collins (b.1970) is an artist currently based in Glasgow.
Recent solo exhibitions include ‘they shoot horses’, Tate Britain, London (2006–7), Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen and ‘the return of the real’, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (both 2006) and ‘yeah..... you, baby you’, Milton Keynes Gallery, (2005). Recent group shows include British Art Show 6, touring venues UK (2005-6), and the Istanbul Biennial, ‘Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye’, Hayward Gallery, London & Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and ‘Populism’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (all 2005) Forthcoming solo exhibitions include ‘New Work: Phil Collins’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2006) and Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst’, Münster (2007). Phil Collins has been nominated for the Turner Prize 2006 showing at Tate Britain, London this October.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970) is a Thai artist and filmmaker based in Bangkok.

Since Weerasethakul began making films and videos in the early 90s, he has become one of the few filmmakers in Thailand who have worked outside the strict Thai studio system. He is active in promoting experimental and independent films through Kick the Machine, the company he founded in 1999. Feature films include Tropical Malady (2004), Blissfully Yours (2002), The Adventure of Iron Pussy(2003) and Mysterious Object at Noon (2000). Recent group exhibitions include ‘La force de l’art’, Grand Palais, Paris and Cinéma(s), Le Magasin, CNAC, Grenoble (both 2006), The Baltic Triennial, Lithuania (2005) and The Pantagruel Syndrome, T1-Turin Triennial (2005), Taipei Biennial and the Busan Biennial (both 2004), Istanbul Biennial and the Tirana Biennial (both 2001). Weerasethakul has presented his work in numerous international film festivals and has received many awards including the prestigious Prix du Jury at Cannes in 2004 for Tropical Malady and Le Prix Un Certain Regard, also at Cannes in 2002, for Blissfully Yours. In 2005 Weerasethakul was presented with one of the most prestigious awards for Thai visual artists, Silpatorn, from the Thailand’s Ministry of Culture.

Weerasethakul is currently working on a new feature, Syndromes and a Century, to be released in November 2006. He is also a producer for the upcoming experimental feature, Heartbreak Pavilion.

More information on Frieze Art Fair Projects website

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Sunday 15 October 11am -6pm

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The Frieze Art Fair takes place every October in Regent's Park, London. It features over 150 of the most exciting contemporary art galleries in the world. As well as these exhibitors, the fair includes specially commissioned artists' projects and an ambitious talks programme. The fourth edition of the fair will take place between 12-15 October, 2006 with a preview day for invited guests on 11 October, 2006.