P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to announce Warm Up 2002, the critically acclaimed music festival that has become one of New York's most anticipated summer events. Now in its fifth year, Warm Up brings together music and visual arts with performances by local and international DJs and bands, drawing thousands of people each week, including artists, families, and club-goers to dance, relax, and cool off in an innovative architectural installation in P.S.1's outdoor galleries. Opening July 6, Warm Up 2002 will be held for 9 weeks, each Saturday afternoon through August 31, from 3 p.m. - 9 p.m. Admission is $6.00.
Crowds have flocked to P.S.1 to hear an eclectic mix of sounds from experimental and established DJs and musicians, ranging from techno samples and house beats to hip hop poetry and Latin-inspired electronic rock. This year's music series is organized by P.S.1 Summer Music Series Coordinator Jason Drummond (a.k.a San Francisco1s DJ SPUN) and Music Advisor Lokke Highstein (New York-based DJ and musician Lo-Ki) and kicks off with Twerk, Joeski, Rob Paine & the Solomonic Sound System, and DJ Still. Over the past four years, Warm Up has hosted live performances by artists such as: Neil Aline, Antibalas, Anti Pop Consortium, Thomas Brinkmann, DJ Craze, Charlie Dark, Vikter Duplaix, Fischerspooner, Frederic Galliano, Kid Koala, Liminal, Arto Lindsay, Francisco Lopez, Los Amigos Invisibles, Ming & FS, Nortec Collective, Organic Grooves, Reid Speed, Ursula Rucker, Karl Hancock Rux, Jimi Tenor, DJ Spooky, DJ Swamp, Swayzak, Luke Vibert, Stuart Walker and many more.
This year marks the third annual MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program, a five-year competition that gives emerging architects the opportunity to realize an outdoor environment designed to host the Warm Up series. This year's winner, William E. Massie, has created a highly graphic landscape that unites the site1s natural and built elements and addresses concepts of surface and sensuality. Installed in P.S.1's 40,000 square foot courtyard, Massie's environment, titled Playa Urbana / Urban Beach, incorporates wave-like structures made of PVC tubing that wind throughout the courtyard providing shade and shelter, while reflecting pools, showers, and a hot tub offer visitors alternatives to the summer heat. Since 1998, artists and architects including Gelatin, Philip Johnson, SHoP, and ROY have transformed P.S.1's courtyard into an urban beach with works of interactive architecture and sculpture that have inspired both critics and audiences alike. Playa Urbana / Urban Beach opens June 30.
The MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program is made possible by Judy and Peter Price. Additional generous support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Peter Norton and the Peter Norton Family Foundation, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Dr. Axel and Lili Stawski, George S. Kaufman, and other individual donors.
Warm Up 2002 is made possible with the generous support of The James Family Foundation, Target, agnès b., Brooklyn Brewery, and The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.
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