MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1

Coordinates: 40°44′43″N 73°56′53″W / 40.745367°N 73.947977°W / 40.745367; -73.947977

MoMA PS1
Established 1971
Location Long Island City, Queens in New York City
Type Contemporary art
Director Klaus Biesenbach
Website www.momaps1.org

MoMA PS1 is one of the largest and oldest institutions in the United States dedicated solely to contemporary art. It is located in the Long Island City neighborhood of New York City. In addition to its renowned exhibitions, the institution also organizes the prestigious International and National Projects series, the Warm Up summer music series, and the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program with The Museum of Modern Art. It also ran WPS1, an Internet art radio station founded in 2004. MoMA PS1 has been affiliated with The Museum of Modern Art since January 2000.

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History

MoMA PS1 and New York skyline
Architectural installation Canopy by nARCHITECTS from summer 2004.
21st Street side of building
MoMA PS1 bathroom
Format Emergency Room by Thierry Geoffroy, February/March 2007

P.S.1 (now MoMA PS1) was founded in 1971 by Alanna Heiss as the Institute for Art and Urban Resources Inc.[1], an organization with the mission of turning abandoned, underutilized buildings in New York City into artist studios and exhibition spaces. Heiss, the center's former director, was born in 1943 in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in a farming community in southern Illinois. The daughter of teachers, she graduated with a B.A. from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, which she attended on a scholarship from the Lawrence Conservatory of Music.

Recognizing that New York was the worldwide magnet for contemporary artists, and believing that traditional museums were not providing adequate exhibition opportunities for site-specific art, Heiss decided to establish a formal, alternative arts organization. She was working as a contemporary art organizer with various civic organizations when she formed what became a long-term friendship and working relationship with architecture/theater critic Brendan Gill. In 1971, she and Gill founded The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, and began renovating many old abandoned buildings in New York City. Among the sites transformed by the Institute were 10 Bleecker Street, the Coney Island Sculpture Museum, and the Idea Warehouse in TriBeCa. Later in 1973, the Clocktower Gallery, located in a municipal building in Lower Manhattan, opened with its inaugural three shows: Joel Shapiro, Richard Tuttle, and James Bishop (artist). The Clocktower Gallery became a well-known alternative space and its distinctive location "in the sky near" City Hall made it an icon of one-person shows.

In 1976, Heiss exponentially increased the organization's exhibition and studio capacity by opening the art center in a deserted Romanesque Revival public school building. This building served as the first school in Long Island City until 1960, when the school was shuttered due to low attendance. In October 1997, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center reopened to the public after a three-year renovation project designed by Los Angeles-based architect Frederick Fisher. The building's facilities were expanded to include a large outdoor gallery, a dramatic entryway, and a two-story project space.

In 2000, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center became an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art.[2]

In 2008, Heiss left MoMA PS1 and founded Art International Radio, which is unaffiliated with MoMA PS1 but houses programs that originally aired on the now-defunct WPS1. AIR produces its own arts-oriented material.

Affiliation with the Museum of Modern Art

MoMA PS1 and the Museum of Modern Art formalized their affiliation in January 2000, bringing together a leader in cutting-edge art and the world's foremost museum of modern art. The principal objective of MoMA's partnership with MoMA PS1 is to promote the enjoyment, appreciation, study, and understanding of contemporary art to a wide and growing audience. Collaborative programs of exhibitions, educational activities, and special projects allow both institutions to draw on their respective strengths and resources and to continue shaping a cultural discourse. The first significant collaboration between MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art took place in 2000 with Greater New York, a widely acclaimed exhibition showcasing the work of more than 140 emerging New York-area artists. This ambitious effort was successfully repeated five years later with Greater New York 2005. Both shows demonstrated the diversity and dynamism of the metropolitan area's artistic community.

Artist and exhibition programs

From its inception, MoMA PS1 has championed the innovative and the experimental. MoMA PS1 has produced adventuresome surveys of the works of artists such as Janet Cardiff, Robert Grosvenor (artist), David Hammons, Hilma af Klint, Donald Lipski, John McCracken, Dennis Oppenheim, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alan Saret, Katharina Sieverding, Keith Sonnier, Michael Tracy, John Wesley (artist), Franz West, Peter Young (artist) and others. Many exhibitions organized by MoMA PS1 travel to museums in the United States and abroad.

Within MoMA PS1's exhibition seasons, a minimum of eight spaces have been reserved for International and National Project artists. This initiative, modeled after the inaugural MoMA PS1 Rooms exhibition in 1976, has been widely regarded as the premiere exhibition opportunity in New York City for young and mid-career artists. These solo exhibitions are selected by the MoMA PS1 curatorial staff. Artists are provided with both a space to design their exhibition and assistance with the installation. Recent artists who have participated in International and National Projects include Eberhard Bosslet, Joe Bradley, Mike Cloud, Kira Lynn Harris, Drew Heitzler, Kalup Linzy, Curtis Mitchell, Lisi Raskin, Kon Trubkovich, Su-Mei Tse and Thierry Geoffroy (Colonel).

In 2008, MoMA PS1 exhibited Minus Space, a survey of 54 artists from 14 countries affiliated with Minus Space curatorial project located in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibition was curated by Phong Bui, publisher of the Brooklyn Rail and MoMA PS1 Curatorial Advisor.

Young Architects Program

The Young Architects Program (YAP) is an annual competition hosted by MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art that invites emerging young architects to submit design proposals for MoMA PS1's courtyard. The winning entry is then converted from concept to construction and becomes the architectural setting for MoMA PS1's summer Warm Up music series. The winners of the 2008 YAP were Amale Andraos and Dan Wood of the Work Architecture Company

2006 YAP installation

BEATFUSE! by OBRA Architects.

OBRA Architects, the 2006 winners of the Young Architects Program designed BEATFUSE!, an installation that ripples through the courtyard, evoking a sense of interior space via seven curved, interconnected shells made of plywood and polypropylene mesh. The project also includes two wooden tidal pools, water misters, and light strainers that create constantly changing shapes in the mist. Three outdoor spaces: a caldarium, a tepidarium, and a frigidarium, offer three distinct climatic zones based on the divisions of a traditional Roman bath. The installation was on view through October 29, 2006.

Past YAP winners

  • 2011 - Holding Pattern by Interboro Partners & WHATAMI by stARTT (MAXXI, Rome)
  • 2010 - Pole Dance by Solid-Objectives - Idenburg LIU
  • 2009 - Afterparty by MOS (principals, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample)
  • 2008 - Public Farm 1 by WorkAC (principals, Amale Andraos and Dan Wood)
  • 2007 - Liquid Sky by Ball-Nogues
  • 2006 - BEATFUSE! by OBRA Architects
  • 2005 - SUR by Xefirotarch (principal, Hernan Diaz Alonso)
  • 2004 - Canopy by nARCHITECTS (principals, Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang)
  • 2003 - Light-Wing by EMERGENT (principal, Tom Wiscombe)
  • 2002 - Playa Urbana / Urban Beach by William E. Massie
  • 2001 - Summer Oasis by ROY (principal Lindy Roy)
  • 2000 - Dunescape by SHoP (principals Christopher R. Sharples, Coren D. Sharples, William W. Sharples, Kimberly J. Holden, and Gregg A. Pasquarelli)
  • 1999 - DJ Pavilion by Philip Johnson
  • 1998 - untitled? by Gelatin'

Warm Up

Warm Up is MoMA PS1's critically acclaimed music series and has become one of the most anticipated summer events in New York City. The series is housed within the architectural installation created by the winner of the annual MoMA PS1 and MoMA organized Young Architects Program. Together, the music, architecture and exhibition program provide a unique multi-sensory experience for music fans, artists, and families alike.

Warm Up was conceived in 1997 as a summer-long dance party to attract crowds to MoMA PS1 and Long Island City, Queens. The series runs every Saturday from July through early September and draws thousands of local and international visitors each day.

Highlights from the series include a stellar group of international DJs and live music ensembles: DJ Harvey, Groove Collective, Afrika Bambaataa, Mad Professor, Richie Hawtin, François K, Fischerspooner, Kid Koala, Arto Lindsay, Scissor Sisters, Luke Vibert, and many more.

WPS1

Biennalist in interview with WPS1's Tony Guerrero. Colonel and Copyflex

WPS1 was the Internet radio station of MoMA PS1. Art International Radio, of which Alanna Heiss became Director after leaving MoMA PS1, now houses WPS1's material.

The radio station provided a free 24-hour stream and an on-demand archive of cultural programming. It operated out of the historic Clocktower Gallery in Lower Manhattan, New York City, where a network of interlinked studios stream live and pre-recorded talk, performances and historic recordings to a worldwide audience. AIR now works from the same location. The radio station currently airs interviews with contemporary artists, poets, writers, choreographers, musicians, art dealers, critics and other cultural innovators related to the current scene. 2009/2010 interviewees include abstract painter Ronnie Landfield, performance artist Carolee Schneeman, founder of the Bowery Poetry Club poet Bob Holman, choreographer Martha Clarke, authors and art critics Jed Perl and Dore Ashton among others.

Launched in April 2004, WPS1's web-tracking statistics showed that listeners from over 50 countries tuned in to nearly 1,000 programs each day over the first year of operation. Visitors select from a traditional radio program format or choose from an on-demand archive of over 1,000 hours of material.

WPS1 featured talk radio style discussions and interviews with artists, authors, musicians, actors, filmmakers, critics, curators, poets, educators, journalists, media experts, and other cultural leaders, innovators, and challengers. The station also carried a unique and important collection of music assembled by a team of music curators. This material ranged from live recordings of the widely acclaimed MoMA PS1 summer Warm Up series, to rare and thoughtful surveys such as the recent Robert Moog Memorial Hour (honoring the passing of the synthesizer inventor), and the Gulf Coast Music Special assembled from rare vinyl recordings. WPS1 broadcast historic recordings from university and private collections, and from the audio archives of The Museum of Modern Art; presented live remote programs from festivals including The Armory Show, Art Basel Miami Beach, and the Venice Biennale; and frequently features panel discussions hosted by different New York cultural institutions. This material is now available on the Art International Radio website.

Long-term installations

Though MoMA PS1 does not have a permanent collection, it does house several long-term installations:

  • Richard Artschwager, Blips, 1976. Location: Throughout MoMA PS1
  • Richard Artschwager, Exit-Don’t fight City Hall, 1976. Location: First floor, hallway, Five red "exit" bulbs
  • Keith Sonnier, Tunnel of Tears, 1997. Location: "Chimney" in the foyer of the lobby
  • Lawrence Weiner, A bit of matter and a little bit more, 1976. Location: Front door, stenciled on glass
  • Pipilotti Rist, Selbstlos im Lavabad (Selfless in the Bath of Lava), 1994. Location: Lobby, single-channel video installation
  • William Kentridge, Stair Procession, 2000. Location: Staircase B
  • Ernesto Caivano, In the Woods. 2004, Location: Staircase A
  • James Turrell, Meeting, 1986. Location: Third floor
  • Alan Saret, Brick Wall and Sun, 1976. Location: Third floor, eastern end of the north wing
  • Matt Mullican, Untitled, 1997. Location: Steel inset in basement floor

References

  1. ^ http://momaps1.org/about/ "MoMA PS1 was founded in 1971 by Alanna Heiss as the Institute for Art and Urban Resources Inc."
  2. ^ http://momaps1.org/about/ "In 2000, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center became an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art"

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