Jumana Manna
Break, Take, Erase, Tally
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Jumana Manna. Old Bread (detail). 2021. Ceramics, plastic bags, galvanized metal.
Peter Cramer and Jack Waters
Artists Make New York
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"We've always worked as a collective. It's not just our own work that we're trying to generate." — Peter Cramer
Peter Cramer and Jack Waters have been creating community—and creating IN community—for decades. Le Petit Versailles, a community garden on East 2nd street, is one such creation. You might have walked past the tiny garden hundreds of times without knowing that it's part of a long history of artists and community members reclaiming corners of the urban landscape.
Peter and Jack were founding members of the performance group POOL, which staged performances about race, class, sexuality, and urban ecology, throughout the city in the 1980s and 90s. They're also longtime residents of the LES, and gardeners! They've stewarded Le Petit Versailles for the last quarter century, transforming it into a place for performances, community gatherings, and horticulture.
Jumana Manna
Cache Sculptures
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"I was really attracted to [khabyas] and how both incredibly beautiful they were and how they spoke to both bodies and architecture" — Jumana Manna
How does a sculpture come to life? From conception to creation, we caught up with Jumana Manna to watch her Cache series take shape. Tracing the process of research, drawing, and fabrication, Jumana talks about this series of ceramic works inspired by a long obsolete tool for preservation.
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger
Autonomous Drive
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Frieda Toranzo Jaeger. Hope The Air Conditioning Is On While Facing Global Warming (part 1). 2017. Oil on canvas. 87 7/8 x 176 inches (223 x 447 cm)
Danielle De Jesus
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"I need to be around my community because it's my muse, it's the reason I do what I do. I had to come back home." — Danielle De Jesus
Meet us on Graham Ave with Danielle De Jesus, an artist featured in "Life Between Buildings." Born and raised in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Danielle has deep ties to the Puerto Rican community that has shaped the neighborhood for generations. Finding inspiration in everything from community gardens to local grocery stores to the colors of the Puerto Rican flag, Danielle's work charts the intersections of green space, gentrification, and Nuyorican community.
Looking for Za'atar
Mina Stone and Adam HajYahia mark the screening of Jumana Manna's "Foragers"
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In conjunction with the presentation of Jumana Manna’s latest film, Foragers (2022), chef Mina Stone will offer a new menu item featuring Za’atar on whipped feta. Find it at Mina’s restaurant at MoMA PS1, or make it at home with the recipe below.
Za’atar—a word used to describe both an herb (thyme) and herb mixture (thyme, sumac, sesame seeds, and salt)—is among the most ubiquitous and beloved flavors of the Levant. Foraging wild Za’atar is an ancient practice, one closely tied to Palestinian identity, food traditions, and the land where it grows. Foragers chronicles the gatherers of wild Za’atar as they track the plants, and are themselves pursued by the Israeli Nature Protection Authority. The film reveals the ways in which longstanding cultural traditions are both constrained by, and struggle against, neoliberal and colonial policies, even those framed as preservationist. Read more about this issue in Manna’s essay for e-flux Journal.
To accompany Mina’s recipe, Palestinian curator and researcher Adam HajYahia contributed an essay on the meaning and history of foraging, which you can read below.
Umar Rashid
Ancien Regime Change 4, 5, and 6
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Umar Rashid, Messier object 66 and the warrior who slew the basilisk and damaged Mission Control. Ad Astra. 2022. Acrylic and ink on canvas. 72 × 84 inches (182.9 × 213.4 centimeters). Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo
Umar Rashid
Sink or Synchronize
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Filmed by Noel Woodford & Marissa Alper; Audio by Nora Rodriguez; Video Editing by Marissa Alper
A jumbotron has just slammed into earth from outer space. And it has a message from the future: "First, you have to sink: a metaphor for reducing one's ego...And then, you must synchronize: become one with everything...It gives you only two options. You can't have fries with that."
Umar Rashid collides history and fantasy to create epic narratives that span continents and millennia. Titled Sink or Synchronize. The voice from the outer realm of the cosmic overlords that compels you, this piece was the artist's first foray into sculpture. Umar worked with a team to execute his vision for this brand new work, created specifically for his show at MoMA PS1.
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Nani Chacon
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"The first time I came out here my brain couldn't comprehend how linear everything was, because I was so used to this far-stretching, organic landscape. The other thing that I remember immediately feeling when coming to New York was just that the city had a soul." — Nani Chacon
What surprised you when you arrived in New York City? Or, if you've never left, what continues to stop you in your tracks?
Artists have been drawing inspiration from, and drawing on, the city from the start. For Nani Chacon, graffiti and mural making have been strategies to claim a place in the landscape.
Along with fellow artists Tatyana Fazlalizadeh and Layqa Nuna Yawar, Nani helped create the collaborative and participatory mural on the exterior of PS1's Courtyard, After the Fire. The three muralists worked with community members from Make the Road, Transform America and the Shinnecock Matinecocks Nations to conceive of the project.