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following the Museum’s reopening will be a multimedia work
by Haegue Yang.

FIRST YEAR OF MEDIA The Studio is a new live space dedicated to performance,
music, sound, spoken word, and expanded approaches to
AND PERFORMANCE the moving image. Since MoMA’s founding, the Museum
PROGRAMMING FOR NEW has shown a commitment to dance and the performing

arts through its collection and exhibition programming.
STATE-OF-THE-ART STUDIO It has been a bold innovator in positioning live art within
The Museum of Modern Art broader narratives of art history. Situated at the heart
of the Museum, within the collection gallery circuit on
the fourth floor, the Studio is the world’s first dedicated
space for performance, process, and time-based art to
The inaugural program for the Marie-Joseé and Henry Kravis be centrally integrated within the galleries of a major
Studio that will open with the newly-expanded MoMA on international Museum. This new space will be a fundamental
October 21, 2019 includes a presentation of Rainforest element in MoMA’s efforts to frame its collection as a living
V (variation 1) by David Tudor and Composers Inside history for both collection-responsive programming and
Electronics; commissions by Adam Linder and Shahryar new commissions by established and emerging artists.
Nashat; Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver’s Cinematic Illumination; two The program aims to enrich histories of modern and
new series: Studio Now and Studio Sound; and a Studio contemporary art, while at the same time offering a key
Residency with Okwui Okpokwasili. Rounding out the platform to support artists in creating new possibilities for
Museum’s presentation of media and performance, the first engaging with audiences and experimenting with new art
installation in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium forms.

First year Studio Residency artist Okwui Okpokwasili, Poor People’s TV
Room (solo). Performed at Lincoln Center Atrium 2015. Photo by Caitlin
McCarthy

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