
Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents a conversation with artist Fritz Haeg
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Join Artbook @ MoMA PS1 for a conversation with multidisciplinary artist Fritz Haeg, whose project Domestic Integrity Field Part A-1 features an organic garden—currently on view in the MoMA Sculpture Garden—which is being harvested to produce materials for an interior installation, opening September 24, for MoMA Studio: Common Senses. Haeg will be in conversation with Annie Novak, Head Farmer at Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Brooklyn and founder/director of Growing Chefs, a field-to-fork food education program. Haeg’s bestselling book, Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, will be available for purchase at the event.
IKEA Disobedients
3:00–5:00 p.m.
IKEA Disobedients, an architectural performance by Madrid-based Andrés Jaque Arquitectos, was recently acquired by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The international premiere of the performance at MoMA PS1, part of the 9+1 Ways of Being Political exhibition on view concurrently at MoMA, reveals how recent architectural practices utilize performative actions to engage audiences with architecture in a non-traditional way.
The performance occurs in an installation constructed from re-configured IKEA furniture, wherein the notion of “The Independent Republic of Our Home”, as espoused in the traditional family oriented IKEA catalogue, is re-evaluated through the alternative domestic lives of those performing, all of whom counter the notion of domestic isolation via engaging directly with the collective from the intimacy of their own homes.
Each of the nine participants, Corentin Bohl, Gianna Cerbone-Teoli, Moddy Harding, Donnie Jochum, Denish Kinariwala, Maja Leonardsen Musum, Rael Michael Clarke, Greg Newton and Frank Traynor were selected on account of how their own domestic lives exist apart from the professed “norm”. Whether through activism or entrepreneurship these individuals are bringing social and political actions into the personal sanctum of the home. Throughout the two performances each performer will go about the social actions that routinely take place within their own homes, from providing haircuts and food to discussing the nature of their own ideas about what a contemporary domestic idyll encompasses. The audience is encouraged to participate and interact within the space and voice their own thoughts on the idea of the home as not a neutral space but one where “controversy and disagreement (can arise) at the site where affections may also emerge.”
Sunday Sessions is a weekly presentation of performance, moving images, dance, music, and discursive programs. Its mission is to embrace live arts as an integral aspect of contemporary practice and ask how art forms, which unfold in the here and now, produce specific ways of thinking and useful means to engage with the broader world. Every Sunday different artists, curators, thinkers and a range of other cultural agents are invited to share their latest projects and ideas with the MoMA PS1 audience.
Sunday Sessions is made possible by MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation.