Madeline Hollander, ‘Day Flight’
LA-based artist and choreographer, Madeline Hollander, invites visitors to move through the skies of Los Angeles for her latest performance, Day Flight. In collaboration with Santa Monica Flyers, Hollander has choreographed daily flights from February 20-23, between 10am - 4pm, available to the public.
Applications are now closed for Day Flight. Participants who have applied will be randomly selected and contacted by email to confirm scheduling and final flight details.
Each flight takes off from Santa Monica Airport and flies north along the coast towards Point Dume, passing over the radically transformed landscapes of Pacific Palisades and Malibu, which were recently affected by the LA wildfires, before returning to the airport and site of Frieze. Day Flight is at once an embodied tour of the interactions of various forms of movement—body, plane, wind, and sky—and a novel means of spatial and temporal reorientation to our precarious environment. From these new vantage points, Day Flight invites a deeply personal reflection on the conditions of living with global climate crises.
Hollander has collaborated closely with a select group of flight instructors from Santa Monica Flyers, Emily Hacker, Danny Grijalva, Sarah Burch, Andrew Zizik, 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.
Raffle Details: Participants will be randomly selected and contacted by email to confirm scheduling and final flight details.
Eligibility: This performance is free and open to a public 18 years and older. Participants must be available to participate in person at Santa Monica Airport between February 20 - 23, 2025. By entering, participants agree to abide by all rules and regulations.
An audio-visual installation inside of the Frieze tent presents footage from flights, each carrying an individual participant and flight instructor. The public can also venture to the Velis Electro e-plane, a type-certified electric-powered aircraft, parked outside of the fair at Gate D and experience audio from the SMO air traffic control tower.
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 is currently exhibiting at Bortolami's booth (A6) at Frieze Los Angeles 2025. She 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.
Frieze is proud to support the LA Arts Community Fire Fund, led by the J. Paul Getty Trust. In addition to Frieze’s contribution, 10% of the value of all newly purchased tickets is also being donated to the fund.
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Main Image: Madeline Hollander, Day Flight, 2025. Courtesy: the artist
