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Published on 7/25/08
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This summer marks the 11th year of P.S.1’s Warm Up series, and by now, you probably know the deal. It’s a weekly Saturday-afternoon outdoor DJ jam (blah blah blah) feels like a rave (uh-huh uh-huh) where new media and edgy sounds mash up—heard it all before. And yet: We can’t wait to come back. How does something so popular and long-lasting remain so fresh? Reinvention. This summer the series, which kicked off June 30 and runs for ten weeks, has been expanded to include more live bands, experimental music and performance in addition to the traditional DJ sets.
The backdrop for the fest is an artwork called Liquid Sky—rain or shine, revelers will dance underneath the canopy of psychedelic Mylar artistry in the P.S.1 courtyard, immersed in kaleidoscopic patterns of color created by sunlight filtering through the array of translucent, tinted petals. (They resemble blossoming flowers of stained glass.) Liquid Sky was designed by L.A.-based Ball-Nogues with Paul Endres as part of P.S.1 and MoMA’s Young Architects Program. For the adjacent outdoor gallery, the team has also designed Droopscape, a slack, curved belly of single-sheet Mylar that flows in the wind. Gravity-dependent tip buckets, perched on the supporting drench towers, periodically soak visitors below. Stop by when not jamming to sets from Ursula 1000 (July 28) and Escort (August 25).
That the borough’s premier art space also happens to be host to one of the city’s most unique and visionary dance parties is emblematic of Long Island City’s unpredictable and forward-thinking ethos.
P.S.1 courtyard, 22-25 Jackson Ave at 46th Ave. $10. LIC residents who can provide proof of residence in any of the LIC zip codes (11101, 11102, 11103, 11104, 11105, 11106 or 11109) are admitted free with one guest.
