P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to announce Warm Up 2003, the critically acclaimed music festival that has become one of New York’s most anticipated summer events. Now in its sixth year, Warm Up brings together music and visual arts with performances by local and international DJs and live 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 5, Warm Up 2003 will be held for 9 weeks, each Saturday afternoon through August 30, 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 Francisco’s DJ SPUN) and Director of Music, Lokke Highstein (New York-based DJ and musician Lo-Ki) and kicks off with Richie Hawtin, also known as Plastikman, who will perform with computers, turntables, drum machines and effects; Magda; live ambient percussian band Mice Parade; and DJ Tree. Over the past five 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, Jimi Tenor, DJ Swamp, Swayzak, Luke Vibert, Stuart Walker, Doc Martin, X-Press 2, Danny Wang, Harvey, Peanut Butter Wolf, and many more.
This year marks the fifth annual MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program, a competition that gives emerging architects the opportunity to realize an outdoor environment designed to host the Warm Up series. This year’s project, Light-Wing, by EMERGENT/Tom Wiscombe, is an environment that provides shade and cool water basins during the day, and transforms into a giant horizontal lantern at night. Since 1998, artists and architects including Gelatin, Philip Johnson, SHoP, ROY, and William Massie 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. Light-Wing opens June 29.
Warm Up 2003 is made possible with the generous support of The James Family Foundation, agnès b., and Brooklyn Brewery. |
