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WARM UP 2014 / HY-FI BY THE LIVING

Expect major crowds at weekly MoMA PS1 Warm Up dance party (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Expect major crowds at weekly MoMA PS1 Warm Up dance party (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th Ave.
Warm Up: Saturdays through September 6, $18-$20, 3:00 – 9:00
“Hy-Fi”: Thursday – Monday through September 7, suggested admission $10 (free with paid MoMA ticket within fourteen days except during Warm Up), 12 noon – 6:00
718-784-2084
www.momaps1.org/warmup
www.momaps1.org/yap

The summer’s sweatiest dance party takes places every Saturday in Long Island City, as thousands of people gather in MoMA PS1’s courtyard for the weekly Warm Up celebration. Now in its seventeenth year, Warm Up features an international roster of prominent DJs and live performances on Saturdays from 3:00 to 9:00 on the dance floor located between the winning Young Architects Program urban design installation in the courtyard and the entrance to the old school building that became an arena for cutting-edge art back in 1971. During Warm Up, M. Wells Dinette serves alcoholic drinks indoors and hot food and cold drinks outdoors, including fried chicken, grilled mackerel yellow bean salad, a grilled veal heart hero, and maple water. On Saturdays, the exhibitions on the second and third floors close at 3:00, but the first-floor and basement shows (“Maria Lassnig,” “Korakrit Arunanondchai,” “Gavin Kenyon: Reliquary Void”) continue through 6:00. This week boasts one of the best lineups of the summer, with DJ sets by Mister Saturday Night (Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter) and Auntie Flo and live music by Cibo Matto, Archie Pelago, and Gabriel Garzón Montano; July 19 brings together Robert Hood, Objekt, Rrose, Vatican Shadow, Conatiner, and Young Male, while July 26 sees Cashmere Cat, Total Freedom, GoldLink, UNiiQU3, and Suicideyear take the stage at the top of the steps, joined by a rotating series of installations by CONFETTISYSTEM, Nightwood, the Principals, and others. Tickets are available for $18 in advance and $20 at the door; be prepared for some long lines the later you go. It’s incredibly easy to get to MoMA PS1, which is the third stop on the 7 from Grand Central. Once you get off the train, just follow the thumping music, which reverberates throughout the neighborhood.

(photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Environmentally friendly organic towers rise in MoMA PS1 courtyard (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Next to the Warm Up area, in the center of the courtyard, stands “Hy-Fi,” the winner of MoMA PS1’s fifteenth annual Young Architects Program. Created by New York-based firm the Living headed by 2013 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow David Benjamin, the three conjoined towers were made using nearly 100% fully compostable and environmentally sustainable biological technologies in collaboration with Ecovative, 3M, Advanced Metal Coatings, Shabd Simon-Alexander and Audrey Louisere, Build It Green Compost, Brooklyn Digital Foundry, Columbia University (where Benjamin is an assistant professor in the Living Architecture Lab), and others. “Hy-Fi” contains approximately ten thousand remarkably light handmade bricks consisting of such organic waste materials as cornstalks and mushroom mycelium, held together by mortar. The shiny, glittering bricks at the top are actually the molds in which the rest of the bricks were grown. (There are also several vertical wooden beams that hold up the entryways, primarily as protection against strong winds and storms, which came in handy last week.) The small gaps between some of the bricks are strictly artistic, resulting in streams of sunlight and shadows. Construction required no energy (except for human) and almost zero carbon emissions; when the installation, which also provides much-needed cooling, is brought down after September 7, the entire structure will be recycled. Unfortunately, because of the size and unpredictability of the crowds during Warm Up, on Saturdays visitors are not allowed inside the twisting structure, which was influenced by the designs of Barcelona architect Antoni Gaudí, but you can take a break in the small pool and sit in other circular areas while drinking wine, beer, and other cocktails. The Living, which was founded in 2006 with “the mission of creating the architecture of the future,” won the YAP commission this year over Collective-LOK, LAMAS, Pita + Bloom, and Fake Industries Architectural Agonism; you can currently see an exhibition on all five submissions, as well as finalists from similar competitions in Italy, Chile, and South Korea, at MoMA’s midtown location.

WARM UP 2012

HWKN’s “Wendy” will provide necessary cooling for MoMA PS1’s summer Warm Up series (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th Ave.
Saturdays from 3:00 to 9:00, July 7 – September 8, $15
718-784-2084
www.ps1.org
wendy slideshow

MoMA PS1’s exhilarating hot and sweaty weekly summer Warm Up dance party turns fifteen this year, with another wide-ranging lineup of live performances and DJ sets that are sure to get your booty shaking. And this year you can move and groove a rotating series of site-specific stage installations by such artists and collectives as CONFETTISYSTEM, Fort Makers, the Principals, and others. Warm Up begins July 7 with Todd Terry, Light Asylum, Nguzunguzu, Trust, and Arca ft. HBA. The July 14 show consists of Terrence Parker, D3, Ron Morelli, Jeremie Delon, Steve Summers, and Professor Genius, while July 21 brings together DJing Matthew Dear, Sepalcure, Le1f, MikeQ, and JDH and Dave P. On July 28, MJ Cole, Sinkane, DJ Spoko, Slava, and Van Rivers will lead the way, followed August 4 by Jamie xx, Pearson Sound, Lemonade, Sinjin Hawke, Zora Hones, and Miguel. On August 11, Photek, Evian Christ, Shlohmo, Autre Ne Veut, and Howse will man the boards and mics, while Floating Points, Jacques Greene, Secret Circuit, and Hieroglyphic Being will take care of things on August 18. August 25’s lineup features Just Blaze, Nick Catchdubs, Danny Brown, the Stallions, and BAIO, while September 1 boasts James Holden, Kassem Mosse, Om Unit, and Silent Diane. The season comes to an awesome close on September 8 with a DJ set by Atoms for Peace, Rustie, Holy Other, Maria Minerva, and Justin Strauss. Food will be provided by Long Island City favorites M. Wells, while much necessary cooling will come courtesy of “Wendy,” HWKN’s giant courtyard installation that won this year’s Young Architects Program. A giant ecologically friendly multifaceted blue star made of titania-nanoparticle-treated nylon that neutralizes air pollution, “Wendy” also has water cannons, big fans, pools of fresh water, and metal steps that lead into its epicenter. As always, the museum will be open as well, so be sure to check out “Jack Smith: Normal Love,” “Zackary Drucker: At Least You Know You Exist,” “Esther Kläs – Better Energy,” “Lara Favaretto: Just Knocked Out,” “Max Brand: no solid footing – (trained) duck fighting a crow,” Janet Cardiff’s “The Forty Part Motet,” and solo projects by Rey Akdogan, Edgardo Aragón, Ilja Karilampi, and Caitlin Keogh.