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Alanis Obomsawin

The Children Have to Hear Another Story

Ends Aug 25

On View
Exhibition

Alanis Obomsawin rests on a rock beside the Lake of Two Mountains, Kanehsatake, 1990.

Photo: John Kenney

Julien Ceccaldi

Adult Theater

Opens Mar 27

Upcoming
Exhibition

Drawing from the comic Tasteful. 2024

Whitney Claflin

I was wearing this when you met me

Opens Mar 27

Upcoming
Exhibition

An abstract painting done in yellow, red, black and blue, with nails sticking out of the top and right side.

Whitney Claflin. Cinema. 2023. Oil, nails, bracelet on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Derosia, New York

DonChristian Jones

The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-Go

Ends Apr 28

On View
Exhibition

Mason Blake

Through the Open Window: Ralph Lemon and the Legacy of Dance at P.S.1

by Jody Graf, Serena Moscardelli, Kari Rittenbach

Writing

Paul Hamilton, Dwayne Brown, Lysis (Ley), Angie Pittman, and April Matthis perform in Ralph Lemon’s Tell it anyway, MoMA PS1, November 16, 2024

Kevin Beasley and Ralph Lemon in Tell it anyway, MoMA PS1, November 16, 2024

Simone Forti. Planet. 1976. Performance view, P.S.1, Queens, 1976

The late 1970s saw several more standalone dance performances, including Air Lines by Batya Zamir (May 20–21, 1977), in which dancers moved while suspended from a kinetic sculpture by Richard Van Buren

Flyer for Min Tanaka: Hyperdance – Drive Series, 1978

Tim Miller performs Postwar (1981), as part of DANCETEXTFLASH, P.S.1, May 9–10, 1981

Blondell Cummings performs Chicken Soup (1982), as part of Paranarrative, P.S.1, May 8–16, 1982

A contact sheet of performance images Risa Jaroslow with Jon Burris and Catherine Weis, “Guerrilla War” and “Shuttle”; Elizabeth Strebs with Danita Gilter “Space Object”; and John Bernd with Beth Lapides “Little America”, Dance Environments, 1983. Photo: Andrew MooreMoMA PS1 Archives, II.A.101. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

The choreographer, writer, and visual artist Ralph Lemon has likened the presentation of dance within a contemporary art museum to the event of a bird flying unexpectedly into a house through an open window. There is a disorienting change in air pressure and temperature from the perspective of the bird, and a dizzying disruption of atmosphere for those already in the room. A potentially productive meeting arises from two very different positions.

On the occasion of Lemon’s major solo show at MoMA PS1, Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon, exhibition curators Connie Butler, T. Lax, and Kari Rittenbach placed equal emphasis on the drawings, films, sculptural objects, and remnants made by Lemon and his collaborators, and the ambitious program of performances rehearsed on site and staged monthly for museum audiences. The ebb and flow of Lemon’s ceremonies engage with the material traces occupying the very same building. In some cases, art objects and sonic elements even travel between the porous realm of live performance and the secure climate-controlled room—virtuosically upending the values conventionally held in either setting.

The Fortune Society: Future Freedoms

Homeroom

Ends Mar 24

Last Chance
Exhibition

Prison Is History. Billboard Collage. 2023. Dimensions variable. Courtesy Jenny Polak and The Fortune Society Artists

On Bungkalan and Butterflies

An Interview with Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien

Interview

Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien. Flame Garden (bruised) (detail). 2024. Watercolor, ink, beeswax, abaca pulp, bagasse, banana stalk, cilantro, coconut, cogon grass, fennel, kale, leek, onion skins, primrose petals, rice hull, sargassum algae, seashell, seaweed, spring onion, statice blossoms, and taro shoots. Installation view of Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien: Offerings for Escalante, on view at MoMA PS1 from October 10, 2024 through February 17, 2025. Photo: Steven Paneccasio

For over a decade, artists Enzo Camacho (Filipino, b. 1985) and Ami Lien (American, b. 1987) have amplified local forms of survival and resistance, with particular attention to the Philippines. On the occasion of their first major US museum exhibition Offerings for Escalante, on view at MoMA PS1 through February 17, the duo discuss their historical and material research on the island of Negros, with both documentary and indexical approaches to embodying the land. Camacho and Lien’s interests materialize in two of their recent works on view in the exhibition, Langit Lupa (2023) and Decomposition Animation (2023), which recently entered the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. The conversation with Chief Curator Ruba Katrib triangulates the social and environmental concerns of artists and activists across The Philippines, its diaspora, and New York.

Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon

Publication

Julia Schäfer

Accompanying the first US museum exhibition dedicated to artist, dancer, and choreographer Ralph Lemon, this catalogue features works across diverse media, including sculpture, film, drawing, and major ensemble performances that emerge in the afterlife of postmodern dance. As a “devotional” handbook for the PS1 show, Ceremonies Out of the Air traces the arc of Lemon’s ongoing collaborations, which extend far beyond the paradigm of dance. It includes essays by exhibition curators Connie Butler and Thomas Lax, as well as newly commissioned essays, texts and contributions by Kevin Beasley, Adrienne Edwards, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, Okwui Okpokwasili, Pope.L, Kevin Quashie, and Kari Rittenbach. Featuring a dust jacket that unfolds into a poster, the book includes more than 100 full-color illustrations of Lemon’s artworks, performance documentation, and sketches.

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Edited by Connie Butler, Thomas Lax, Kari Rittenbach, Jody Graf. Text by Butler, Lax, Adrienne Edwards, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, Okwui Okpokwasili, Pope.L, Kevin Quashie, and Rittenbach. Contribution by Kevin Beasley. Designed by Julia Schäfer and Asel Tambay.

The Gatherers

Opens Apr 24

Upcoming
Exhibition

Tolia Astakhishvili and Dylan Peirce. Untitled. 2025. 2-channel video (48 min., looped). Courtesy the artists