Warm Up 2001
July 7 – September, 2001

Summer 2001
Schedule
Saturdays, 3-9pm

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For the fourth consecutive summer, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Warm Up 2001, the critically acclaimed and highly popular DJ series. P.S.1’s Warm Up summer festival has established a vital multidisciplinary forum where audiences can interact with new trends in the arts. P.S.1’s Warm Up 2001 showcases a new and inventive series of national and international music performances, art installations and dance, coupled with an innovative architectural installation presented in P.S.1’s outdoor courtyard and galleries. Opening Saturday, July 7th, Warm Up 2001 will be held for 9 weeks, each Saturday afternoon through September 1, from 3 – 9pm, and admission is $5.00.

Warm Up 2001, curated by Jonathan Rudnick of Giant Step, kicks off on July 7th with the Nortec Collective featuring Fussible, Plankton Man and Terrestre, as well as Los Amigos Invisibles, a dance band from Venezuela. Breakbeat Science celebrates their fifth anniversary on July 21st with DB, Dara, and special guests. Onthecorner.FM, Charlie Dark from Attica Blues, Gamall, Studio K7 featuring Herbert, Ursula Rucker and many others will also perform later this summer. Over the past three years, crowds flocked to the frenzied, cutting-edge sounds of local and international DJs and live musicians. Warm Up has hosted live performances by artists such as: Neil Aline, Antibalas, Anti Pop Consortium, Thomas Brinkmann, Fischerspooner, Frederic Galliano, Giant Step, Liminal, Arto Lindsay, Francisco Lopez, Miho of Cibo Matto, Ming & FS, Organic Grooves, Karl Hancock Rux, Jimi Tenor, DJ Spooky, DJ Swamp, Swayzak, Luke Vibert, Stuart Walker and many more.

Last year was the first year of P.S.1/MoMA Young Architects Program, an annual five-year series of competition that gives emerging architects the opportunity to build projects conceived to host the Warm Up series at P.S.1’s facility. This year’s winner ROY, whose principal is Lindy Roy, has transformed the outdoor courtyard of P.S.1 into an industrial-meets-tropical landscape complete with moving hammocks, walls of fans, personal misters and wading pools, creating a much sought-after refuge for summer relaxation in the heart of New York City. The project is named subWave, and will open on July 1.

In addition to the music in the outdoor galleries, P.S.1 presents Summer Dance Warm Up, a rejuvenation of a program that flourished in the 70’s and early 80’s. In P.S.1’s former gymnasium, thirty emerging dancers will perform on Saturday afternoons throughout the summer.

The P.S.1/MoMA Young Architects Program is made possible by Judy and Peter O. Price. Additional generous support is provided by the Douglas S. Cramer Foundation, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, and other individual donors.

Warm Up 2001 is made possible with the generous support of agnes b., the James Family Foundation, Brooklyn Brewery, Häagen Dazs, Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, James G. Niven, and Balance Bar.

subWave is a project by ROY with principal Lindy Roy and project architect Benjamin Aranda. The Project Team is Barbara Ludescher, Tomoyuki Minowa, Gernot Riether, and Monica Tiulescu. The Installation Team is Rebecca Arcaro, Albert Angel, Andrew Ballard, Katherine Chang, Douglas Diaz, Hayley Eber, Pablo Garcia, Jorge Godoy, Till Houtermans, Chris Lasch, Mariam Mojdehi, Anna Niemark, Wade Perrin, Paul Schuette, Roberto Steck-Ibarra and Joshuah Webster. Design Consultation, Coordination and Fabrication by Rurik Ekstöm and Jonathan Taylor of The Oculus Group Ltd. and Kurt Lebeck of Cabezon Design Group. Graphic Design by Philip Kelly. Structural Engineering by Dewhurst MacFarlane and Partners Inc.

Exhibitions presented at P.S.1 this summer include: Uniform: Order and Disorder, Buzz Club: News From Japan, Los Carpinteros: Ciudad Transportable (Transportable City), Carla Accardi: Triplice Tenda, Miri Segal: Circular Acts, Kim Sooja: A Needle Woman, and Ashkan Sahihi: The Drug Series. Special projects include works by Gruppo A12, Bill Beirne, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Miguel Angel Rios, Aïda Ruilova and Nedko Solakov. Opening July 1st, Buzz Club: News from Japan features the work of more than 100 contemporary Japanese artists working in digital and analog media installed in an enormous honeycomb. This 70-foot-long beehive will contain cell phones, monitors, video games, and graphics; hive by hive, visitors can explore the diverse digital sensibilities of young Japan inside the structurally regimented social space. A second gallery will feature works by artists who routinely cross and confound genres with an interactive media installation, fashion remixing, and inventive sports games. These works will appear in five rotating solo exhibitions of works by Hideyuki Tanaka, Delaware, Nakagawa Sochi, Gabin Ito and Toshio Iwai.