Frieze Projects has returned to Los Angeles with a new citywide programme of public commissions, delivered through a collaboration between Frieze and Art Production Fund. Operating as the fair’s public art platform, the initiative expands Frieze’s footprint beyond the exhibition halls by commissioning artists based in the city.
This year’s edition, titled Body & Soul, brings together eight performances and installations examining existence, embodiment, ritual and collective experience. The programme is positioned as a cultural activation strategy designed to broaden public engagement with contemporary art in urban space.
Art Production Fund takes Frieze beyond the booths by activating public spaces with large-scale installations and site-specific projects during the international art fair. 
Art Production Fund takes Frieze beyond the booths by activating public spaces with large-scale installations and site-specific projects during the international art fair. 
Art Production Fund takes Frieze beyond the booths by activating public spaces with large-scale installations and site-specific projects during the international art fair. 
Art Production Fund takes Frieze beyond the booths by activating public spaces with large-scale installations and site-specific projects during the international art fair.
On a soccer field adjacent to the fair site, Amanda Ross-Ho presents Untitled Orbit (MANUAL MODE), a durational performance in which the artist continuously rolls a 16-foot inflatable Earth during opening hours. Nearby, Australian photographer Polly Borland unveils BOD, her largest sculptural work to date, cast in aluminium and extending her soft, wrapped visual language into a monumental format.
Woodworker Shana Hoehn contributes Deadfall, her first large-scale public sculpture, carved from a ficus tree sourced through the city’s urban forest programme and focused on decay and transformation. Following a recent solo exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, ceramicist Kohshin Finley presents The Piano Player, a series of large-scale stoneware vessels arranged within shadow-box shelving. In parallel, Dan John Anderson shows two glass and bronze works, Threshold and Terra Seer, which explore light, shadow and totemic form.
Beyond the fairgrounds, Kelly Wall activates a vacant newsstand in Westwood Village with Everything Must Go, filling the structure with glass magazine covers that gradually disappear throughout the week. Closing the programme, the duo Cosmas & Damian Brown presents interactive fountain works that incorporate smoke, sound and reconfigurable metal vessels designed to invite physical participation.
Body & Soul remains on view through March 1. As part of the wider programme, Cosmas & Damian Brown will also lead a youth workshop on February 28 through Art Production Fund’s Art Sundae initiative, culminating in a collaborative public artwork created with participating children.