PS1 HOMESCHOOL

PS1 Homeschool is the hub for all of the online experiences and experiments that we are presenting across multiple platforms to permeate our collective isolation. Browse our digital homeschool to find your next recipe, listen to conversations with artists, discover new music, and see coverage of our live events.

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Artists Make New York: Alan Michelson

We took a sit at Newtown Creek with Greater New York artist Alan Michelson to talk about what's missing from the landscape. Four hundred years ago, monumental shell mounds—or middens—dotted this land (some dating as far back as 6950 BCE!). Alan’s installation, "Midden," pays homage to Lenapehoking, the ancestral Lenape homelands, and its bounty of oysters, which fed generations until pollution made them unsafe to eat and decimated the oyster population. Alan collaborated with the Billion Oyster Project to source three tons of oyster shells (!) for his installation.

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Artists Make New York: Peter Jemison

Greater New York artist G. Peter Jemison tells the stories left out of the history books. 📖

A Seneca artist and historian, Peter created a new work for Greater New York which explores the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794. The treaty was forged between the nascent US government and the Haudenosaunee, a confederacy of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora people. The Treaty not only affirmed the sovereignty of the Haudenosaunee, but guaranteed their land rights to a significant portion of Western New York (spoiler: the treaty has seen many violations since its adoption). To mark the treaty, the US government set aside $4500 to buy cloth to send to the Haudenosaunee, an amount that has never changed. The treaty still exists today—and so does the tradition of the cloth! You can see textile pieces given to Peter's family incorporated into many of the works on view. As a form of historical preservation, Peter's works combat the geographic and cultural erasure his people have faced.

Read the full conversation with Peter at mo.ma/peterjemison.

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Artists Make New York: Shanzhai Lyric

"I come to Canal Street for the corruption."

That’s how a visitor to Shanzhai Lyric's Canal Street space once described the area, notorious as New York's counterfeit epicenter. But in their research on Canal Street, the Greater New York artists problematize where the real corruption lies.

“The concept of shanzhai reframes property as something that should be shared and innovated upon, as opposed to something that should be hoarded and protected through violence…it redirects the finger at who the real thieves are, which in this case are those who are hoarding all the resources and property of the city.”

For “In Incomplete Poem,” on view in the lobby of MoMA PS1, the collective took inspiration from the global impact of "shanzhai", or counterfeit, t-shirts made in China: “With devoted irreverence, shanzhai poems highlight the arbitrary line between real and fake—designed to exploit and criminalize the many for the gain of the few.”

In our series, Artists Make New York, we're exploring the city through the eyes of the artists that love it. Watch more video from the series at mo.ma/gny.

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Artists Make New York: Yuji Agematsu

How would you capture what a city leaves behind each day? 👣

Greater New York artist Yuji Agematsu has cultivated a daily practice of walking and collecting scraps of debris—chewed gum, foil, bottle caps, feathers, thread—from city streets since 1980 when he moved to New York City from Japan. Yuji delicately packages those foraged treasures into cellophane cigarette wrappers, which become small sculptures known as "zips."

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Cooking with Artists: Mina Stone

Why do you come to the kitchen?👩🏾‍🍳🥕🍜🍰. Today, we wrap up our beloved series, Cooking with Artists, with an interview with Mina Stone, chef and owner of Mina's at PS1, and the voice behind so many conversations with artists about so much more than food.

The series kicked off in March of 2020 (sourdough, anyone?) when Mina began interrogating the deeper reasons behind a collective retreat to the kitchen. "At first, I think it seems really obvious….‘oh, because food is cozy and fun.’ But then, what the interview series unearthed is that it’s actually a lot more nuanced and deep than I would have ever thought.”

Read more + get Mina's recipe for oven baked chickpeas at mo.ma/mina.

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Nuevayorkinos: A Celebration of Life and Labor

On the last day of Nuevayorkino's activation of Homeroom, we're remembering "Nuevayorkinos: A Celebration of Life and Labor," a powerful day honoring the brilliance, artistry, and persistence of New York's many immigrant communities. Take a look back at some of our highlights from the day. Artists, activists, and community members came together to celebrate the collective action that secured a historic $2.1 billion in funding for excluded workers, many of whom are undocumented. The event was held in conjunction with "Nuevayorkinos: Essential and Excluded" in Homeroom, a collaboration between Nuevayorkinos and representatives from Make the Road, Fund Excluded Workers Coalition, NY Communities for Change, and the Street Vendor Project.

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Nuevayorkinos: A Celebration of Life and Labor

On the last day of Nuevayorkino's activation of Homeroom, we're remembering "Nuevayorkinos: A Celebration of Life and Labor," a powerful day honoring the brilliance, artistry, and persistence of New York's many immigrant communities. Take a look back at some of our highlights from the day. Artists, activists, and community members came together to celebrate the collective action that secured a historic $2.1 billion in funding for excluded workers, many of whom are undocumented. The event was held in conjunction with "Nuevayorkinos: Essential and Excluded" in Homeroom, a collaboration between Nuevayorkinos and representatives from Make the Road NY, Fund Excluded Workers Coalition, NY Communities for Change, and the Street Vendor Project.

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Artists Make New York: Sean-Kierre Lyons

This winter solstice, get to know a tree that's seen some things. 🌙

For our second installment of Artists Make New York, Sean-Kierre Lyons takes us to a hidden spot in Prospect Park, where we discover a tree that's still alive, despite a cavern that runs straight through its trunk. We talk about imagining something new after trauma, and how the park has changed since SK hung here as a teenager. 🧚🏽

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Freya Powell, Only Remains Remain Discussion

The pandemic has forced us all into close quarters with ambiguous loss: it's a mourning without closure, a rupture without resolution. Freya Powell took on the topic last month in her performance and panel discussion, drawing connections between the ongoing migration tragedy in Brooks County, Texas and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Freya's performance, Only Remains Remain, used the structure of a Sophoclean chorus to create an elegy for the hundreds of unidentified migrants buried in mass graves in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Brooks County.

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The New York Oyster Conference

A conversation about oysters is about so much more than oysters.

Full video of the New York Oyster Conference is now available to stream here! Held in conjunction with Greater New York, the conference brought together artists, environmental advocates, and scholars to discuss not only the evolution of New York's oyster population, but what oysters can teach us about how colonialism has shaped the social and ecological landscape of the city.

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Cooking with Artists: C. Spencer Yeh

To be clear: you're DEFINITELY f🥗cking up your salad. But you won't find any in our next Cooking with Artists. Spencer Yeh explores noise, embodiment, and experimentation as entry points into the fine art of Taiwanese fried chicken. 🍗🤘🍗

This Thanksgiving, forget the gravy and break out the fish sauce. Grab the recipe and read the full conversation with Mina Stone, Chef and owner of Mina's restaurant, here. And for goodness sake, bring napkins.

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Artists Make New York: Steffani Jemison

It's time to re-meet New York. 🤝 In conjunction with Greater New York, we're exploring the city through the eyes of the artists who love it. First up in our Artists Make New York video series, Steffani Jemison meets us in Crown Height's Brower Park, the setting of her film Similitude, now on view in the exhibition.

"This part of Crown Heights and the use of this park, it had been a mostly Black community until relatively recently—and now it's super diverse...I'm glad that I was able to shoot Similitude here, to document something about a particular moment in the history of this neighborhood, this community, which may never come back again."

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MoMA PS1 x On

"There's a togetherness within the liberation of the dance floor." 🕺🏽⚡🎧️

In partnership with On , we're highlighting some of the artists, musicians, and creators that have brought community together here at MoMA PS1. From Warm Up to Greater New York, from the walls to the stage, we'll explore how PS1 artists stay connected to their practice and their community, and how they use that connection to thrive.

Follow along over the next 4 weeks to learn how PS1 artists Ana Roxanne, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Marie Karlberg, and Sazón Department have continued creating through the profound ruptures of the pandemic, and how creation can be an engine for communion.

Read their full article here.

📹 Video by Gabriel Gomez

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Visitor Engagement Audio Guide

"I miss people’s smiles. I read into people’s energies, and smiles are such a big part of people’s energies. And I’m a big flirter." – Bobby, Visitor Engagement Associate

Flirting aside, this pandemic has been hard on museum workers, particularly those welcoming visitors each and every day! To honor the work of our Visitor Engagement team, we put together an audio guide with some of their incredible stories and rich knowledge of PS1. Our team will take you through the artist activations embedded in our building, and let in you on a few of their own secrets.

Listen to the full audio guide.

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Cooking with Artists: Meriem Bennani

“Food feels parallel to language, your mother tongue. When you live far away from where you’re from, you have the same relationship to your language as to your food. These two things relate to your primary understanding of the world and your mode of expression.”

—Meriem Bennani Artist Meriem Bennani spoke with @MinaStone for our next Cooking ith Artists about chermoula fish balls, Bennani's own re-creation of a traditional Moroccan dish that usually uses ground beef. Meriem creates films and installations, many of which include sculptures, furniture, and architecture that create an immersive environment. Meriem’s installations use elements of documentary as a springboard into myth, surprise, and the unpredictable. Read the full conversation and find the recipe at mo.ma/meriem.

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Artists on Artworks: Anthea Hamilton

"Hon really spoke to me, it was like the way that you keep an image around in the studio, in a book, or in your desktop. You're not necessarily sure that you'll do something with it but it seems kind of true to you...It holds some kind of keys of truth about what you think the experience of making art can be." In the last installment of our "Artists on Artworks," Anthea Hamilton speaks about Niki de Saint Phalle's monumental installation Hon, a work that became a lifelong reference point. "Not just as an artist," she explains, "but just in how to be in the world."

Artists on Artworks is made possible through the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life Book Launch

To mark the publication of the catalog for Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life, we hosted a conversation between Ruba Katrib, the exhibition curator and the book’s editor, and catalogue contributors Anne Dressen and Nick Mauss, Alex Kitnick, and Lanka Tattersall. They discussed Saint Phalle’s attention to interdisciplinarity, architecture, and the politics and erotics of the body.