4/2/2012
MoMA PS1 Performance Dome
MoMA PS1, New York
Sunday Sessions will feature an amalgam of artistic programming - from light, sound, and music installations to lectures by world-renowned scholars and special performances. Various other galleries and rooms inside of the former schoolhouse will also be activated during these weekly sessions.
The new geodesic dome at MoMA PS1 is made possible by Volkswagen of America as
part of an ongoing, innovative partnership between Volkswagen, MoMA, and MoMA PS1
“Sunday Sessions” at MoMA PS1
(Long Island City, NY—January 30, 2012) MoMA PS1 is delighted to announce the
inauguration of a new performance dome, thanks to a generous gift from Volkswagen of
America, as part of an ongoing, innovative partnership between Volkswagen, MoMA, and MoMA
PS1. The MoMA PS1 Performance Dome will allow for expanded winter programming in
MoMA PS1’s iconic courtyard, namely weekly “Sunday Sessions,” which will launch Sunday,
February 5 and continue every Sunday through May 13, 2012.
Weekly “Sunday Sessions” in the MoMA PS1 Performance Dome will feature an
amalgam of artistic programming—from light, sound, and music installations to lectures by
world-renowned scholars and special performances. Various other galleries and rooms inside of
the former schoolhouse will also be activated during these weekly sessions. The inaugural
celebration of the dome on February 5 will feature a special performance by musician Nicolas
Jaar and collaborators Will Epstein, Dave Harrington and Sasha Spielberg, presented by MoMA
PS1, Pitchfork, and Clown & Sunset Aesthetics (CSA). The five-hour, continuous piece will
combine recording, sampling, and looping techniques with analogue instrumentation and sound-
derived video from CSA's resident filmmaker Ryan Staake as well as a movement piece from
Lizzie Fiedelson LIVE in the MoMA PS1 Performance Dome.
Details about additional “Sunday Sessions” schedules will be forthcoming.
About the Volkswagen, MoMA, and MoMA PS1 Partnership
The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and Volkswagen began a two-year partnership in 2011
that supports exhibitions and education at MoMA and at MoMA PS1. The major components of
the partnership are the support for an international contemporary art exhibition at MoMA PS1 in
2013, and the expansion of MoMA’s online course offerings beginning in March 2012. It also
includes sponsorship of a series of installations in MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture
Garden and new initiatives to take place in 2012.
This unprecedented partnership supports MoMA and MoMA PS1’s leadership role in
contemporary art and culture, and our goal of reaching a diverse and global audience. As part of
the partnership with Volkswagen, Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at
Large at MoMA, is currently engaged in extensive research to scout artists working in multiple
mediums throughout the world. A major exhibition filling MoMA PS1’s entire gallery space, and
utilizing the new MoMA PS1 Performance Dome, will open in 2013, highlighting artists who
are reacting to the pressing questions of the 21st century with its interrelated ecological,
economical, spiritual, ethnographic, political, and social challenges.
SPONSORSHIP
The MoMA PS1 Performance Dome is made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen
of America.
Press Contact:
Rebecca Taylor, (718) 786-3139, rebecca_taylor@moma.org
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P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Avenue (Long Island City) - New York
EVERY Sunday, February 5 – May 13, 2012 12 – 6pm