Standing on the Corner
Seven Prepared Pianos for the Seven African Powers
Ends Oct 9
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Standing on the Corner. Seven Prepared Pianos for the Seven African Powers. 2023.
Marissa AlperRaque Ford’s set design for Warm Up 2023
You Help Me Forget
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Directed by Nora Rodriguez; Produced by Marissa Alper; Filmed by Marissa Alper & Citlali Ortiz; Audio by Nora Rodriguez; Video Editing by Marissa Alper; Photography by Marissa Alper; Graphic Design by Julia Schäfer.
Raque Ford (American, b. 1986)
You help me forget, 2023
Plexiglass, lyrics, metal hardware, and plywood
Set design for Warm Up at MoMA PS1
Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York
Two parts:
Your Laugh, 2023
Setting for turntables
My words they still exist and need (reprise), 2022–23
Dancefloor
The 2023 Warm Up season takes place on a custom set, You Help Me Forget, designed by artist Raque Ford. The artist playfully inlays found, authored, and overheard language in her mirrored acrylic tiles–here enveloping the DJ booth–to subvert the rigor of grid systems and expand upon themes she explored in Greater New York 2021. Blurring the public character of language and the personal tone of address, Ford invites attendees to see themselves, fellow dancers, and the surrounding PS1 Courtyard in dynamic reflections that evolve through the evening as the crowd coalesces and the sun sets.
You Help Me Forget expands on Ford’s most recent body of work, exploring the style and spatial organization of clubs and nightlife venues designed to encourage communion and collective expression. The artist’s first outdoor project in public space, the sculpture draws on a variety of references, from the austere geometries of postwar minimalism to the synthetic saturation of digital space, with nods to the funkier edges of 1980s Italian interiors and dancehall vernacular.
To mark the opening of Warm Up 2023, a special presentation of Ford’s modular, checkerboard My words they still exist and need (reprise) (2022–23) encouraged audience interaction as a platform for dance, relaying the ethos of the iconic music series. As the lingering physical centerpiece of the extended season, the jeweled music box Your Laugh creates a reverberant setting for DJs and performers, imbued with the imagery and élan of attendees. Ford’s large-scale plexi work crystallizes atmosphere as environment, giving form to the electricity of the music, and the unforgettable energy of Warm Up.
Raque Ford (b. 1986, Columbia, Maryland) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Recent solo presentations include Good Weather, Chicago (2023); Greene Naftali, New York (2022); 321 Gallery, Brooklyn (2019); CAPITAL, San Francisco (2017); and Shoot the Lobster, New York (2017). Significant group shows include Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo (2022); MoMA PS1, New York (2021); Morán Morán, Mexico City (2021); Greene Naftali, New York (2020); Kai Matsumiya, New York (2019); Roberta Pelan, Toronto (2017); SculptureCenter, Queens (2016); and Division Gallery, Montreal (2016). Ford’s work is in the collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Raque Ford (American, b. 1986)
You help me forget, 2023
Plexiglass, lyrics, metal hardware, and plywood
Set design for Warm Up at MoMA PS1
Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York
Two parts:
Your Laugh, 2023
Setting for turntables
My words they still exist and need (reprise), 2022–23
Dancefloor
The 2023 Warm Up season takes place on a custom set, You Help Me Forget, designed by artist Raque Ford. The artist playfully inlays found, authored, and overheard language in her mirrored acrylic tiles–here enveloping the DJ booth–to subvert the rigor of grid systems and expand upon themes she explored in Greater New York 2021. Blurring the public character of language and the personal tone of address, Ford invites attendees to see themselves, fellow dancers, and the surrounding PS1 Courtyard in dynamic reflections that evolve through the evening as the crowd coalesces and the sun sets.
You Help Me Forget expands on Ford’s most recent body of work, exploring the style and spatial organization of clubs and nightlife venues designed to encourage communion and collective expression. The artist’s first outdoor project in public space, the sculpture draws on a variety of references, from the austere geometries of postwar minimalism to the synthetic saturation of digital space, with nods to the funkier edges of 1980s Italian interiors and dancehall vernacular.
To mark the opening of Warm Up 2023, a special presentation of Ford’s modular, checkerboard My words they still exist and need (reprise) (2022–23) encouraged audience interaction as a platform for dance, relaying the ethos of the iconic music series. As the lingering physical centerpiece of the extended season, the jeweled music box Your Laugh creates a reverberant setting for DJs and performers, imbued with the imagery and élan of attendees. Ford’s large-scale plexi work crystallizes atmosphere as environment, giving form to the electricity of the music, and the unforgettable energy of Warm Up.
Raque Ford (b. 1986, Columbia, Maryland) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Recent solo presentations include Good Weather, Chicago (2023); Greene Naftali, New York (2022); 321 Gallery, Brooklyn (2019); CAPITAL, San Francisco (2017); and Shoot the Lobster, New York (2017). Significant group shows include Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo (2022); MoMA PS1, New York (2021); Morán Morán, Mexico City (2021); Greene Naftali, New York (2020); Kai Matsumiya, New York (2019); Roberta Pelan, Toronto (2017); SculptureCenter, Queens (2016); and Division Gallery, Montreal (2016). Ford’s work is in the collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton
Q'iwanakaxa/Q'iwsanakaxa Utjxiwa (Cacique apoderado Francisco Tancara & Rosa Quiñones confronted by the subprefecto, chief of police, corregidor, archbishop, Reid Shepard, & Adventist missionaries)
Ends Oct 2
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Chuquimamani-Condori & Joshua Chuquimia Crampton Helados. 2023. Scanned traditional medicine incorporated into digital image.
Daniel Lind-Ramos in His Studio
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Directed/Produced by Nora Rodriguez. Filmed by Pati Cruz and Marissa Alper. Edited by Marissa Alper.
Español Abajo
"To take care of objects is to take care of memory." — Daniel Lind-Ramos
Experience Daniel's monumental sculptures that explore the connected histories and enduring practices of Afro-Caribbean communities in Puerto Rico and around the world. Using everyday objects—such as ropes, tarps, coconuts, wood scraps, and palm leaves—the artist creates assemblages that reveal the erasure of local traditions in the face of environmental degradation, climate change, and systemic neglect.
⬆️ Get to know Daniel in his studio in Loíza, Puerto Rico, along with some brand new works created for the show at MoMA PS1!
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“Cuidar los objetos es cuidar la memoria”. — Daniel Lind-Ramos
A partir del 20 de abril, nuestras galerías se llenarán de las esculturas monumentales de Daniel que exploran las historias y prácticas conectadas de las comunidades afrocaribeñas de todo el mundo. Utilizando objetos cotidianos encontrados y regalados —como cuerdas, toldos, cocos, restos de madera y hojas de palmera— el artista crea ensamblajes que revelan la resistencia de las tradiciones locales frente a la degradación medioambiental, el cambio climático y el abandono sistémico.
⬆️ ¡Conozca a Daniel en su taller en Loíza, Puerto Rico, junto con algunas obras totalmente nuevas producidas para la exposición en el MoMA PS1!
Malikah
Ends Oct 9
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- Homeroom
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Malikah member leaders from Astoria preparing for their upcoming Homeroom exhibition at their third storytelling workshop
Aziz RamosPoetry by Iiu Susiraja
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Susiraja's work has a deep connection to language. Her titles often take the form of quips and puns, and she has a practice of writing short poems. This selection of poems, penned between 2007 and 2012, reflects the dark humor and tenderness of her images.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
A LOT OF PEOPLE
Opens Oct 12
- Upcoming
- Exhibition
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Installation view of Rirkrit Tiravanija: Tomorrow is the Question at Remai Modern, Saskatoon, 2019. Courtesy Remai Modern, Saskatoon.
Blaine CampbellLos Ritmos del Griot
A Playlist by Payola Isabel in Honor of Daniel Lind-Ramos
- Playlist
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Listen to a special playlist celebrating Daniel Lind-Ramos created by Payola Isabel, DJ and co-founder of Radiored. Radiored is a platform for artistic exchange founded in 2015 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Their mission is to support emerging artists from the island, giving them a space to share their work and facilitating the export of their music.
“The playlist is a transformation of African and Caribbean rhythms. I invite you to listen to the playlist from start to finish and not in shuffle. Its progression is purposefully curated.” — Payola Isabel
Listen to a special playlist celebrating Daniel Lind-Ramos created by Payola Isabel, DJ and co-founder of Radiored. Radiored is a platform for artistic exchange founded in 2015 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Their mission is to support emerging artists from the island, giving them a space to share their work and facilitating the export of their music.
“The playlist is a transformation of African and Caribbean rhythms. I invite you to listen to the playlist from start to finish and not in shuffle. Its progression is purposefully curated.” — Payola Isabel
Scenes from the Archives
by Onyeka Igwe
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Listen to the artist Onyeka Igwe read from a text she wrote about her experience conducting research at the Bristol Archives in Southwest England. Igwe describes the sensation of viewing and handling brittle historical materials, which often evoked physical and visceral reactions, such as during the process of opening poorly preserved film canisters, some nearly one hundred years old. She and a colleague were cataloging items from the collection of the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, which held records and ephemera from private citizens and government officials related to the history of British colonization in Africa and beyond. At the time this text was written, Igwe was searching for film stock originally recorded in and around Nigeria by the Colonial Film Unit, which produced moving image reels for propaganda purposes. Later, Igwe personally digitized some of the celluloid found in this archive, including some passages that appear in the film Specialised Technique, now on view in her exhibition, A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver).
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.