tomorrow: Public Farm 1 at PS1 Warmup
PS1 Warmup tomorrow, Saturday, July 19! It’s gonna be a blast. Let’s resume the good times we had last summer! We’re meeting up sometime around 4pmish in the main courtyard for an afternoon of friends, art and great beats. MoMA we love you.
This summer’s concept goes green — keep reading for more (click below to go to t_a_i_s on Flickr):
From Dexigner:
PF1 (Public Farm One) is an urban farm concept that evokes the look of a flying carpet landing in the P.S.1 courtyard. Constructed from large cardboard tubes, its top surface will be a working farm, blooming with a variety of vegetables and plants. The structure will create a textured, colorful, and constantly changing surface in contrast with P.S.1′s angular concrete and gravel courtyard.
Urban Molecule observes developing trends in society, science and technology to better understand the emerging 
As a big supporter of the Warmup series and the great art that PS1 supports and exhibits I am thoroughly disappointed at the hypocrisy that goes on outside the venue each Saturday. Inside we have Public Farm One, a wonderful example of everything our planet should be, green. An art installation that uses sustainable materials in a beautiful way to not only produce a wonderful atmosphere for all to relax under, but also to support the idea that rooftop gardens help save our environment with each and every planting.
All of this inside, yet outside we have Warmup workers placing wristbands on people and throwing the sticker backings from them on the sidewalk when garbage cans are placed right next to them. This has happened each and every week this summer and it is disgraceful that such a blatant disregard for the planet we live on is exhibited outside of an environmentally friendly exhibit inside.
PS1 and Warmup should be ashamed of the workers they hire there and if I were the curator of the museum it would not be tolerated.
August 9, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I couldn’t agree more, lorien.
My frustration comes from the aggressive staff inside. They make it nearly impossible for anyone to enjoy the art. I was almost kicked out for disturbing one of the art pieces — a “brilliant” display of evenly-placed quarters on the floor (a section of the building that is ALWAYS open to foot traffic). First of all, wtf? Is that art? Anyway…
As for sustainable, if MoMA were indeed interested in saving the environment (or, at least promoting the idea with a bunch of affected, impressionable party-goers), it would examine its usage of plastic beer cups, wristbands, and the like. What would they do? How would they change it? Beats me, but if I was in charge of putting together a million-dollar making party/exhibition series each summer, you bet it would be my job to figure that out.
Besides, these are creative people we’re talking about, right?
My point is, MoMA is a money-maker. The museum (specifically PS-1) is NOT above doing things strictly for business. That’s what it’s all about in the world right now, MAKING MONEY. Short term gain, with the least possible liability. Sad but true. The Museum of Modern Art is not exempt from the hypocrisy that festers everywhere else.
If anyone should be ashamed, it should be us — the patrons of such events — because we go right along with it. I’m seriously thinking of not going back to WarmUp. Again, sad but true. I’m just not impressed at what it’s become.
The electronic music scene (along with the art scene long before it) has become infested with every type of materialistic, opportunistic, lets-be-a-hipster-for-the-summer-because-mommy-and-daddy-can-afford-it bourgeois bloodsuckers who jump from scene to scene, destroying the authenticity and boring the rest of us with their trite fashions and sickly attitudes. They are the embodiment of mass culture, and the kings and queens of FAD. Horkeimer and Adorno were the first to comment on “mass culture,” I believe (1950s?), and they did it well. You would be more empowered to read them.
For all we know, MoMA and PS-1 are now being run by those same vampires. Thanks again for the input, Lorien — and thanks for reading!
August 10, 2008 at 9:15 am
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