January 9: Saturday Sessions with Jibade-Khalil Huffman

Saturday, January 9, 2010
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

**Due to unforseen circumstances, Desi Santiago's scheduled performance has been postponed to a later date.

Jibade-Khalil Huffman presents Monster Island Czar, an epic poem that takes the form of a slide show. A poet and a photographer, Huffman's interdisciplinary approach invites notions of chance and indeterminacy by allowing the projectors and computers to run at different speeds and create different combinations of words, images, and sounds. With the Dadaists and William S. Burroughs cut-ups in mind, Huffman's performance interweaves visual art and literary tradition.

The January Saturday Sessions are presented in conjunction with open studios and discussions with participants in Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront, held from 2-6pm. Organized by The Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with P.S.1, Rising Currents will include a residency for teams of architects and designers at P.S.1 this fall and an exhibition at MoMA next spring. The residency at P.S.1 is part of Free Space, a new project with artists and nonprofit arts institutions in which P.S.1 provides collaborative use of its gallery space for events, rehearsals, and other live presentations.

For more information about Saturday Sessions and Open Studios for Rising Currents, please visit www.ps1.org

January 9: Open Studios and Presentations for Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront

Saturday, January 9, 2010
2:00 PM to 6:00 PM

This Saturday January 9 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., is the last opportunity for the public to visit the Rising Currents architect-in-residence studios at P.S.1. As part of P.S.1’s Saturday Sessions, the five teams will open their studios to the public and be available to discuss their work. A presentation by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design and the five team leaders will take place from 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. in the Paintings Gallery.

Organized by The Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with P.S.1, Rising Currents includes an eight week residency for teams of architects and designers at P.S.1 this fall and winter, followed by an exhibition at MoMA next spring (opening March 24, 2010). The residency at P.S.1 is part of Free Space, a new project with artists and nonprofit arts institutions in which P.S.1 provides collaborative use of its gallery space for events, rehearsals, and other live presentations.

For more information about Saturday Sessions and Open Studios for Rising Currents, please visit www.ps1.org . Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at Rising Currents.