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october 18, 2021 - Moma

Moma announces the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio Program through summer 2022

Highlights Include Works from #noraturato, #baselabbas and #ruanneabourahme, and Okwui Okpokwasili

NEW YORK, October 18, 2021—The Museum of Modern Art announces presentations through summer 2022 for the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, a state-of-the-art space in the heart of the Museum dedicated to MoMA’s ongoing presentation of live and experimental works. The 2022 Studio program includes #noraturato: pool 5, January 29 – February 13, 2022; #baselabbas and #ruanneabourahme: May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth, March 12–June 12, 2022; and the Studio Residency: #okwuiokpokwasili, July 16–August 14, 2022. Complete details follow below.

Nora Turato: pool 5
January 29–February 13, 2022

In Nora Turato’s virtuosic performances, spoken word, graphic design, and bookmaking are intertwined to explore the possibilities of language in a culture oversaturated with information. Turato collects words and phrases from a range of sources: the Internet, media headlines, advertisements, conversations, books, commercial products, and her own thoughts. pool 5—which takes the form of a performance and a book—assembles and arranges these pools of text into a growing script that Turato memorizes and performs, alternating rhythm and intonation, voices and modes. She speaks loudly and boldly, disrupting the archetype of a soft-spoken woman and touching on many themes from politics to entertainment to sex.

The previous work in Turato’s series, titled pool 4, was scheduled to open at #MoMA on May 6, 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the meantime, the Amsterdam-based artist collected new texts and phrases, and will present pool 5 in the Kravis Studio. The publication presented in the space serves simultaneously as prop, set, exhibition, archive, and artist’s book.

Organized by Ana Janevski, Curator, Department of Media and Performance.

Further information in the press release to download