Frieze Projects: Madeline Hollander, ‘Day Flight’
Madeline Hollander, Day Flight, 2025.
Performance in Collaboration with Santa Monica Flyers. Velis Electro e-planes, Cessnas, Sportcruisers, certified flight instructors, wind, Santa Monica Municipal Airport air traffic control tower.
About the Project
For those seeking new vantages, the artist and choreographer, Madeline Hollander invites visitors to move through the skies of Los Angeles. In collaboration with Santa Monica Flyers, a renowned local flight school located at Santa Monica Airport, she offers a limited number of choreographed flights each day for individual fairgoers. Inspired by her childhood flight lessons, which influenced her approach to dance, and her understanding of the body’s symbiotic relationship to machines, Hollander has worked closely with a select group of flight instructors to share this embodied experience. Day Flight features a fleet of Velis Electro planes, the first ever type-certified, electric-powered aircrafts, as well as Sportcruisers, and Cessnas. The piece will be accompanied by an immersive on-ground audio-visual installation that will allow visitors to listen and watch the live feeds of the flights overhead. Blending the personal with the celestial, Day Flight invites a physical exploration of moving through three-dimensional space and an intimate perspective on the city’s airspace.
About the Artist
Madeline Hollander (b. 1986, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist and choreographer who works with performance, video and installation to explore how human movement and body-language negotiate their limits within everyday systems of technology, intellectual property law, and ritual. Hollander composes movement sequences that investigate the formation of new body languages, quotidian gestures, social behavior, and spectacle. Hollander has exhibited works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2023); Performa’s 2021 Biennial, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; The Artists’ Institute, NY; The Park Avenue Armory, NY; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany; the Serpentine Galleries, Londons, UK; Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA; Gagosian, New York; Bosse & Baum Gallery, London, UK; Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland; Galeria Zmud, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Bortolami Gallery, NY; Signal, NY; Luxembourg & Dayan Gallery, NY; the Sculpture Center, NY; Jack Hanley Gallery, NY; Tina Kim Gallery, NY; The Kitchen, NY; Torrance Shipman Gallery, NY; and the Centre Pompidou Metz, France (2019). She choreographed two ballets, “5 Live Calibrations” and “Elastic Ballet,” for Los Angeles Dance Project in Los Angeles, that premiered at the Theatre Champs-Elysees, Paris, and the Louvre, Abu Dhabi. Hollander has collaborated with Jordan Peele on his feature film Us (2019) and Urs Fisher’s immersive installation PLAY at Gagosian, New York (2019) and Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA (2019). Hollander received her MFA in Film/Video from the Milton Avery School of Arts, Bard College in 2018.
Further Information
Frieze Los Angeles, 20 – 23 February 2025, Santa Monica Airport.
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Main Image: Madeline Hollander, Day Flight, 2025. Courtesy: the artist
