Press Release
Frieze Film 2009: Superflex
Frieze Film 2009 is delighted to present a newly commissioned project in four parts by Danish artist-activists Superflex. Taking as their inspiration a passage in Lars von Trier’s film Epidemic, Superflex’s new films will show prominent figures who combine the worlds of art and finance, as they subject themselves to hypnosis.
Frieze Film will be shown in Channel 4’s innovative ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slot during the week of Frieze Art Fair from Monday 12 October to Thursday 15 October, at 7.55pm. In previous years collaborations between Frieze Film and Channel 4’s ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slot have averaged audiences in excess of one million viewers.
Superflex work outside traditional art contexts, collaborating with designers, engineers, businesses and marketers, they define their works as tools which have the potential for social or economic change. The artist-activists explained: “We want to experience the final stages of an economic crisis as seen through the eyes of a mayor economic player. We will use hypnosis to get us there, talk us through it and maybe even speak about what is to be seen on the other side of an apocalyptic financial crisis”.
Recent films have included Flooded McDonald’s at the South London Gallery in January 2009, and Burning Car in 2008, made in the aftermath of civil unrest in Paris and Copenhagen in 2007.
Neville Wakefield, curator of Frieze Film commented: “‘Having flooded the structures of global capitalism with their Poseidon adventure film Flooded McDonald’s, Superflex now want to peel back the conscious reasoning of its greatest minds to reveal the structures, fears and doubts upon which it may have been built…”.
Frieze Film is presented as part of Frieze Art Fair’s unique curated programme. Frieze Film, together with Frieze Projects, Frieze Talks and Frieze Education, is commissioned and produced under the auspices of the Frieze Foundation.
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Frieze Art Fair – Information
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Thursday 15 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 17 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 18 October 11am – 6pm
Preview:
Wednesday 14 October
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