Hide & Seek by Dream the Combine. Opening
28/06/2018.
Young Architects Program 2018. PS1 MoMA [NYC] USA 28.06 > 03.09.2018
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Hide & Seek by Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers of Dream The Combine, in collaboration with Clayton Binkley of ARUP, was named the winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1’s 2018 Young Architects Program.
YAP 2018 Winner: Hide & Seek by Dream the Combine. Photograph by Caylon Hackwith. Image courtesy of MoMA PS1
YAP 2018 Winner: Hide & Seek by Dream the Combine. Photograph by Caylon Hackwith. Image courtesy of MoMA PS1
YAP 2018 Winner: Hide & Seek by Dream the Combine. Photograph by Caylon Hackwith. Image courtesy of MoMA PS1
YAP 2018 Winner: Hide & Seek by Dream the Combine. Photograph by Caylon Hackwith. Image courtesy of MoMA PS1
YAP 2018 Winner: Hide & Seek by Dream the Combine. Photograph by Caylon Hackwith. Image courtesy of MoMA PS1
Rendering. YAP 2018 Winner: Hide & Seek by Dream the Combine. Image courtesy of MoMA PS1
Rendering. YAP 2018 Winner: Hide & Seek by Dream the Combine. Image courtesy of MoMA PS1
Opening yesterday, June 28th, 2018, this year’s construction, by Dream The Combine is a responsive, kinetic environment that features nine intersecting elements arrayed across the entirety of the MoMA PS1 courtyard. Drawn from among five finalists, Hide & Seek will serve as a temporary urban landscape for the 21st season of Warm Up, MoMA PS1’s pioneering outdoor music series, and remain on view through the summer.
This year’s other finalists are LeCavalier R+D (Jesse LeCavalier), FreelandBuck (David Freeland and Brennan Buck), BairBalliet (Kelly Bair and Kristy Balliet) and OFICINAA (Silvia Benedito and Alexander Häusler). An exhibition of the five finalists' proposed projects will be on view at The Museum of Modern Art during summer 2018.
This year’s other finalists are LeCavalier R+D (Jesse LeCavalier), FreelandBuck (David Freeland and Brennan Buck), BairBalliet (Kelly Bair and Kristy Balliet) and OFICINAA (Silvia Benedito and Alexander Häusler). An exhibition of the five finalists' proposed projects will be on view at The Museum of Modern Art during summer 2018.
Inspired by the crowd, the street, and the jostle of relationships found in the contemporary city, Hide & Seek enables surprising connections throughout the adjoining courtyards of MoMA PS1 and the surrounding streets. Each of the horizontal structures contains two inward-facing, gimbaled mirrors suspended from a frame.
The mirrors move in the wind or with human touch, permitting dislocating views and unique spatial relationships across the space that foster unexpected interactions. As the vanishing points disappear into the depths of the mirrors, the illusion of space expands beyond the physical boundaries of the Museum and bends into new forms, creating visual connections within the courtyard and onto the streets outside.
In reference to these unpredictable gestures, the upper registers of the steel structure will be filled with a cloud of mist and light, responding to the activity and life of Warm Up at night. Scriptive elements, including a runway and a large-scale hammock, invite visitors into performance and establish platforms for improvisation.
The mirrors move in the wind or with human touch, permitting dislocating views and unique spatial relationships across the space that foster unexpected interactions. As the vanishing points disappear into the depths of the mirrors, the illusion of space expands beyond the physical boundaries of the Museum and bends into new forms, creating visual connections within the courtyard and onto the streets outside.
In reference to these unpredictable gestures, the upper registers of the steel structure will be filled with a cloud of mist and light, responding to the activity and life of Warm Up at night. Scriptive elements, including a runway and a large-scale hammock, invite visitors into performance and establish platforms for improvisation.
“For the 19th year of the Young Architects Program, Dream The Combine’s provocative intervention Hide & Seek is a test of architecture in Long Island City, Queens and, more broadly, the American city. Conceived as a temporary site of exchange, the proposal activates the MoMA PS1 courtyard as a speculative frontier to be magnified, transgressed, and reoccupied,” said Sean Anderson, Associate Curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design.
“As art can and should move through walls, so too does Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers’s architecture that restages how and why communities interact with the Museum. The materials deployed will not just be its reflective ‘runway,’ illuminated overhead misting networks, or even an expansive hammock for lounging, but a scaled system that addresses multiple publics with the impassioned statement, ‘You Are Here.’”
“As art can and should move through walls, so too does Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers’s architecture that restages how and why communities interact with the Museum. The materials deployed will not just be its reflective ‘runway,’ illuminated overhead misting networks, or even an expansive hammock for lounging, but a scaled system that addresses multiple publics with the impassioned statement, ‘You Are Here.’”
More information
Design
Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers of Dream The Combine in collaboration with Clayton Binkley of ARUP Structural Engineering: Clayton Binkley and Kristen Strobel, ARUP
Project Team
Max Ouellette-Howitz, Nero He, Tom Vogel, Emmy Tong, and Erik Grinde, with support from UMN School of Architecture
Consultants
Lighting Consultant.- Yuliya Savelyeva, ARUP. Mist Consultant.- Urs Hildebrand, THEFOGSYSTEM
Others
Donation-in-Kind of canopy fabric.- Hunter Douglas
Fabrication.- Jacobsson Carruthers
Video production.- Isaac Gale
Venue
MoMA PS1. 11 West 53 Street, 22 - 25 Jackson Avenue. New York, NY 10019. Long Island City, NY 11101. USA
Dates
June 28–September 3, 2018
Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers. Dream The Combine
Dream The Combine is the creative practice of artists and architects Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, based in Minneapolis, MN. Working with engineer Clayton Binkley and a trusted group of fabricators, Dream The Combine investigate the conceptual overlaps in art, architecture, and cultural theory through structures that disrupt assumed dichotomies and
manipulate the boundary between real and illusory space.
manipulate the boundary between real and illusory space.
Jennifer Newsom received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale College and her Master of Architecture from Yale University, where she also received the Fermin Ennis Memorial Fellowship and the Anne C.K. Garland award for academic achievement. While at Yale, she organized the two-day symposium Black Boxes: Enigmas of Space and Race held at Yale School of Architecture. Recently appointed an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture, she teaches undergraduate and graduate architectural design studios. Using race as a provocative impetus for her work, she is concerned with surface perceptions and the structures that support those readings. She has worked with firms as diverse as Adjaye Associates, Deborah Berke Partners, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, and Cooper Robertson. Her writing has been featured in Metropolis magazine and Africana: The Encyclopedia of African and African - American Experience.
Tom Carruthers received his Bachelor of Arts in drawing and sculpture from Brown University and his Master of Architecture from Yale University. His early work consists of site- specific sculptures that explore landscape as metaphor and image as space. For four years, he was lead assistant for artist Ursula von Rydingsvard, helping with the construction of over 20 large scale sculptural works. As a licensed architect, he worked alongside the late Charles Gwathmey and at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, developing early concept proposals with formal strategies that integrate context, complex geometry, and material construction. In addition to his creative practice, Tom is co-owner of Jacobsson Carruthers, a metal fabrication shop in Minneapolis.
Tom Carruthers received his Bachelor of Arts in drawing and sculpture from Brown University and his Master of Architecture from Yale University. His early work consists of site- specific sculptures that explore landscape as metaphor and image as space. For four years, he was lead assistant for artist Ursula von Rydingsvard, helping with the construction of over 20 large scale sculptural works. As a licensed architect, he worked alongside the late Charles Gwathmey and at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, developing early concept proposals with formal strategies that integrate context, complex geometry, and material construction. In addition to his creative practice, Tom is co-owner of Jacobsson Carruthers, a metal fabrication shop in Minneapolis.
