Tom Thayer, Chang Yuchen & Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Kite

Join us for performances by Tom Thayer, Chang Yuchen & Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Kite as part of Greater New York 2026, MoMA PS1’s signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area. Free tickets will be released soon, subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know.

May 30 Performances

2 p.m.
Tom Thayer, The Story of a Sudden Butterfly, 2026
Written and performed by Tom Thayer

Tom Thayer stages an immersive performance with sound, shadow, live video mixing, and manipulable sculptures and objects.

3 p.m.
Chang Yuchen & Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Call Me by Your Practice: A Cross-Examination

Two friends—both artists featured in the exhibition—deliver a performance lecture, intimately examining the use of language in each other’s practices.

4 p.m.
Kite, Four Handdreamers, 2026
Performed by Nava Dunkelman, JJJJJerome Ellis, and Kite

An improvisational performance with violin, saxophone, and percussion exploring the cosmic space of sonic collectivity, guided by a subconscious score and the Lakȟóta values of generosity, exchange, and reciprocity.

Credit: Wihanble S'a Center for Indigenous AI at Bard College, Abundant Intelligences (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, New Frontiers Research Fund)

Tom Thayer (b. 1970, Chicago Heights, IL) is an artist and educator who is Professor of Painting, Drawing, and Diverse Media at the City College of New York. His work has been exhibited at Blank Forms, New York (2025); Artists Space, New York (2023), Loong Mah, New York (2021); Tetsuo’s Garage, Nikko, Japan (2019); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); and in the 2012 Whitney Biennial.

Chang Yuchen (b. 1989, Shanxi, China) is an interdisciplinary artist. She is a recipient of New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellowship and Queens Art Fund New Work Grant. Chang has presented work at institutions including Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Artists Space, New York; and Taikwun Contemporary, Hong Kong. She was an artist-in-residence at Triangle, Smack Mellon, Asymmetry Art Foundation, MASS MoCA, Museum of Art and Design, and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.

Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985, East Palo Alto, CA) is a learner and a death doula in training. Her middle name, Janan, meaning “heart and soul,” comes from the Arabic trilateral root (J-N-N / جنان) evoking that which is unmoored, veiled, and wayward. Accordingly, she explores the politics and poetics of non-compliance and disobedience across written, spoken, and visual language. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021) and a Creative Capital Award (2022), and has exhibited worldwide.

Kite (b. 1990, Los Angeles, CA) (Oglála Lakȟóta) is an artist, composer, and scholar whose work merges Lakȟóta knowledge systems with performance, sound, sculpture, and computational media. Kite is Director of the Wíhaŋble S’a Center for Indigenous AI at Bard College, where she is Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor of American & Indigenous Studies. She is also Co-PI and Co-Director of the international Abundant Intelligences Research Program. Her work has been featured internationally at the Guatemala Biennial, the Whitney Biennial, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Shanghai Biennale. Kite is an enrolled citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and lives in Catskill, NY. She holds a PhD from Concordia University, Montreal.