Jumana Manna
Break, Take, Erase, Tally
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Jumana Manna. Old Bread (detail). 2021. Ceramics, plastic bags, galvanized metal.
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
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.
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)
Artists Make New York
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.
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
jackie sumell and Mina Stone in Conversation
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Video by Nora Rodriguez and Noel Woodford
"Plants were used to map significant places along the underground railroad, and okra (ngombo), whose seeds were braided into the hair of the enslaved as they struggled to survive the middle passage, were then planted into colonized soil. The bright yellow ngombo flowers became beacons of hope to other enslaved individuals. It is said that the enslaved could remember their homeland through the flowers that waved to them on foreign soil."
— jackie sumell
jackie sumell's Growing Abolition, a collaboration with interns from the Lower East Side Girls Club, is an opportunity to learn from plants about strategies of resistance, coalition, and healing. jackie sat down with Mina Stone, chef and owner of Mina's at MoMA PS1, to talk about one particularly potent teacher: okra!
Continue the conversation on your plate: starting tomorrow, for a limited time only, Mina's will be serving Bamies—slow cooked okra with tomatoes, onions and chilies—inspired by the work of Growing Abolition. If you can't make it to Mina's, her recipe is available for you to cook at home below!
"Plants were used to map significant places along the underground railroad, and okra (ngombo), whose seeds were braided into the hair of the enslaved as they struggled to survive the middle passage, were then planted into colonized soil. The bright yellow ngombo flowers became beacons of hope to other enslaved individuals. It is said that the enslaved could remember their homeland through the flowers that waved to them on foreign soil."
— jackie sumell
jackie sumell's Growing Abolition, a collaboration with interns from the Lower East Side Girls Club, is an opportunity to learn from plants about strategies of resistance, coalition, and healing. jackie sat down with Mina Stone, chef and owner of Mina's at MoMA PS1, to talk about one particularly potent teacher: okra!
Continue the conversation on your plate: starting tomorrow, for a limited time only, Mina's will be serving Bamies—slow cooked okra with tomatoes, onions and chilies—inspired by the work of Growing Abolition. If you can't make it to Mina's, her recipe is available for you to cook at home below!
Freedom to Grow
The Lower Eastside Girls Club & jackie sumell
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Detail of garden shed at Queensbridge Houses, painted by the Lower Eastside Girls Club interns with artist Nani Chacon in the summer of 2021.
Photo by Eliot EngelmaierArtists Make New York
Layqa Nuna Yawar
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Video: Noel Woodford, Eva Cruz, Nora Rodriguez
New Yorkers know: being NOT from NY is sometimes deeply NY. We met Layqa Nuna Yawar, whose new collaborative mural After the Fire is now on view on MoMA PS1's exterior walls, in New Jersey with a perfect view of the NYC skyline to talk about what it means to work from the outside:
"Being on the periphery, being on the outside...I think it's a blessing, actually. It's another circle to think about my indigeneity not being present, growing up under colonialism...I think that's why I enjoy New Jersey a lot. Because it's a representation of that...Art doesn't happen in the center. It happens in the peripheries."
Artists Make New York, no matter where they start from.