This fall, MoMA PS1 will present a major exhibition of Vaginal Davis, spanning five decades of her practice as a performer, visual artist, author, filmmaker, musician, educator, self-proclaimed “Blacktress,” and countercultural icon. The presentation spotlights Ms. Davis’s role as an underground trailblazer in culture and queer politics—as well as her uncompromising glamour.
Four Dilations presents four artistic positions that counter the dominant ways in which time is kept today. The exhibition’s title references temporal dilation, a physical phenomenon that describes how time can pass at different rates for observers with distinct frames of reference.
Artist Ayoung Kim (Korean, b. 1979) presents the US debut of her Delivery Dancer trilogy, renowned video installations presented for the first time together. Recognized as an artist on the vanguard of digital innovation, Kim uses generative AI, videogame engines, and live-action footage to create narratives that collide geopolitics, synthesize mythologies, and interrogate technologies.
The US premiere of Gabrielle Goliath’s (South African, b. 1983) acclaimed, ongoing video series Personal Accounts (2024–25) responds to the impacts of patriarchal violence in a range of global contexts from Johannesburg to Kyiv. Intimately documenting survivor testimonials, in collaboration with the contributors, the artist has withheld narrative speech within the videos, instead portraying the moments in between participants’ recounts: breaths, sighs, cries, humming, and even laughter. Goliath’s sonic cycles trouble false binaries of the ‘voiced’ and ‘voiceless,’ revealing the enormity of what can be conveyed in moments of perceived silence.
In their first project in the US, artist-run platform LA ESCUELA___ will initiate a collective learning project in Homeroom this fall charting pedagogies from across Latin America.
Join a free Lunar New Year celebration for all ages with food, drink, and music, and after-hours access to exhibitions including Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex
Join us for a new season of Winter Talks, our lecture series with distinguished speakers pushing forward critical discourse. These evenings invite the public into in-person conversations on cultural issues that are urgent for artists, scholars, and cultural workers. Invited speakers share material in development that bridges art, culture, technology, and economics. This event is free with RSVP.
Renowned art historian Larne Abse Gogarty will deliver the season’s first lecture. Dr. Abse Gogarty is the author of two books including What We Do is Secret: Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy (Sternberg Press, 2023) and Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art (Brill 2022).