MoMA Announces Sunday Sessions

Encompassing performance, music, dance, conversation, and moving image, VW Sunday Sessions welcomes visitors to experience art live and in real time-underscoring how these art forms encourage engagement with our contemporary world.

February 5, 2017: 3PM
CRUMBLING WORLD RUNWAY

Intermedia artist INDIA SALVOR MENUEZ brings together a multidisciplinary group of designers, visual artists, writers, and performers, including MARIA JOSÉ, SARA GRACE POWELL, ROWAN OLIVER, SER SERPAS, WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM, and ARIEL ZETINA, to present original work utilizing performance, poetry, and music to address mutual expression, community, and personal identity. The invited participants create a nonlinear narrative that touches on queerness, trans-feminine social dissonance, the othering of women, out identity, the symbolic connotations of garments, and collective consciousness. India Salvor Menuez is part of a new generation of New York artists who are building an extended community both within the city itself and through the Internet and social media networks, with individuals frequently collaborating and working together on common projects.
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February 12, 19, and 26, 2017
BETWEEN 0 AND 1: REMIXING GENDER, TECHNOLOGY, AND MUSIC

Organized with BILL KOULIGAS, Between 0 and 1 is a series of performances, talks, screenings, and workshops that highlight and investigate the relationship between gender nonconforming identities, technology, and electronic music. For three consecutive weekends, the series focuses on gender positions that reject and challenge a binary world view and looks at the historical role electronic music plays in creating alternative spaces allowing for multitudes of identities, desires, and affects.
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February 12, 2017

Between 0 and 1 begins with a day focused on community, both as it is fostered within the digital realm in recent years and, as it has been for many decades, within New York City's nightlife scene. With HONEY DIJON, CODE LIBERATION, PAULINE BOUDRY, and RENATE LORENZ.

February 19, 2017

The central Sunday of Between 0 and 1 is built around a live performance of Cantos I-IV from TERRE THAEMLITZ's larger multi-media sound work Soulnessless, which, at over 32 hours in its entirety, is the longest mass produced album in history and the world's first full-length MP3 album. The performance will be followed by HONEY DIJON and Terre Thaemlitz in conversation, moderated by JULIANA HUXTABLE.

February 26, 2017

Between 0 and 1 culminates with a day highlighting the longstanding relationship between electronic music and the dissolution of established gender constructs, which continues to be a catalyst for artists emerging today. Experimental electronic musician ELYSIA CRAMPTON and New York-based noise artist DREAMCRUSHER present live performances. Artist, musician, and writer GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE closes the series with a lecture that charts the evolution of their gender identity alongside their success in experimental music.

March 5, 2017: 3PM & 5PM
NEW LECTURE-PERFORMANCE BY MARK LECKEY

See a brand new lecture-performance by Mark Leckey commissioned by MoMA PS1 to coincide with the final day of the exhibition Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers.
FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION

March 12, 2017: 2PM
FROM.UNDER.ABOVE

Richard Kennedy presents FROM.UNDER.ABOVE, an afternoon of new music and performance centered around the themes of self-actualization, visibility of marginalized bodies, underground creative communities, and the transformative power of sound in the face of geopolitical violence. Performers will include BEARCAT, DONCHRISTIAN, ANTWAUN DUNCAN, QUAY DASH, Richard Kennedy, SADAF, TYGAPAW, and VIOLENCE.
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March 19, 2017: 3PM
MORIAH EVANS

This public presentation marks the culmination of MORIAH EVANS's four-month-long residency in the VW Dome. In this first look at a new work-in-progress, Evans, a New York-based choreographer and dancer, examines how we move, what we expect to watch, and how our values of discernment must be reconstructed. Performers explore personal interiority, while negotiating the medium's insistence upon external visibility. The work explores alternate forms of socialization through embodied experience and perception, in which four female bodies are caught in a state of reorganizing themselves. With LIZZIE FEIDELSON, NICOLE MANNARINO, and SARAH BETH PERCIVAL.
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March 26, 2017: 12PM
MoMA PS1 AND OTHER MUSIC PRESENT
COME TOGETHER: MUSIC FESTIVAL AND LABEL MARKET

Come Together: Music Festival and Label Market offers live performances, films, workshops, and panels that celebrate the interactive ecosystem of local and international music communities, and a label fair where visitors can explore some of the most interesting, cutting-edge music being released today.

While the very fabric of music culture has been stretched-maybe shredded-by fast-changing digital platforms, the central and essential role that communities play in both the creation and consumption of new sounds remains unchanged. When the iconic NYC record shop Other Music closed last summer, there was an overwhelming outpouring of love and emotion from artists, fans, and the industry over the loss of not just a store, but a meeting place, incubator, and community space for forward-thinking art. With Come Together, Other Music and MoMA PS1 recast the fading record store experience for the modern era.
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April 2, 2017: 12PM
LABORATORY FOR FREEDOMS PROGRAM

During the first 100 days of the new Presidential administration, MoMA PS1 is hosting an artist residency with artist-run political action committee (PAC) FOR FREEDOMS. As part of VW Sunday Sessions, For Freedoms will present a live program related to their ongoing practice of using art to inspire deeper political engagement. Founded one year ago by artists HANK WILLIS THOMAS and ERIC GOTTESMAN, this non-partisan PAC has invited other artists to work on advertisements, exhibitions, and public meetings across the country that claimed political space for art. Rather than campaigning for or against any specific candidate or party, For Freedoms encourages discussions of core democratic values through art.
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April 9, 2017: 3PM
HANNAH BLACK, OR LIFE OR

This new performance by HANNAH BLACK is part of an ongoing collaboration with the musician BONAVENTURE and the designer EBBA FRANSÉN WALDHÖR. Their 2016 performance at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, titled Anxietina, introduced an eponymous, mundane superhero figure who channels her anxiety into miraculous small acts of creation and destruction.

The VW Sunday Sessions commission presents an expanded iteration of this character, with Anxietina setting off on a deconstructed adventure loosely based on the Wikipedia entry for "life," the field of corporate catastrophic risk analysis, and colonial American antiques. The work explores the links between 19th century Euro-capitalist expansion, contemporary corporatism, and the rise in populism both in the United Kingdom and United States.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Images: Members of the non-partisan, artist-run political action committee For Freedoms. | Hannah Black. 2016. Still from Credits. | Genesis and Lady Jaye. 2016. Photo: Laure A. Leber

Between 0 and 1: Remixing Gender, Technology, and Music and Come Together: Music Festival and Label Market are supported by B&O PLAY by Bang & Olufsen.