P.S.1 Artists are All on Drugs

After going to Central Park, I went to PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City. Instead of taking the train, I decided to walk there. Bad decision. I went through a neighborhood that's mixed with vacant dilapidated buildings and housing projects. If I only see men standing around and barely any women or children, I get nervous. After walking a couple blocks, I tried to find a street that had some traffic, but they were mostly empty, so I ran to the closest major street.



I arrived at PS1 slightly sweaty and sticky. The entrance of the museum is a courtyard that showcases different exhibits. The winner of this year's design contest designed an urban farm.


The landscape is entitled P.F.1 (Public Farm One).


This tube is part of Public Farm One. I was tempted to crawl inside and my stick my head out one of the openings but I'm not sure what has gone on in the tunnel of love...


...plus the gravel would have hurt my dainty knees.


To go along with the farm theme, you can look inside these tiny holes to see videos of farm animals. You're looking at goats right now.



The chickens are part of the farm concept.


They come out toward closing time and are free to roam around. They're really friendly and will walk up to you.

Photography is prohibited in the building but there's not much to take pictures of anyways. The center, which was once a school building, is more of a exhibition space that allows artists to express new ideas and genres. There were videos of naked people, photographs, and a giant mirror spinning on the ceiling (bow chika bow wow).

One of the videos was called Salt Transfer Cycle by Jonathan Yoo. I walked in the room and saw on the wall a naked Asian man sitting on the grass. Not only was he naked, but he also had grains of salt all over his body. Hmmm...this is interesting...then the moose or caribou or whatever animal has antlers walked over to him. And licked him. I guess that explains the title of the film. But that's not even the best part. After showing the severed antler on the grass, the naked man jumps up into the air and then the scene cuts to him lying on his stomach on a pile of salt (or it could be a pile of cocaine) licking the salt/cocaine and making a legless snow angel on it.

The other video I saw had a lady being tasered in public, hosed down while she was totally nude (she had several tattoos and one, which looked like a giant mole, was right above her a-hole), and repeatedly had her head held down in a barrel of water by an "interrogator."

Some people call this art. I call it people on drugs.