Featuring Brian Fuata’s of a house besieged (preposition tweaked) (2020), alongside a text written by Matthew Lyons.

On May 25, 26, and 27 1982, The Kitchen screened a series of experimental films from an array of emerging and established filmmakers. The fourth iteration of the Filmworks program series initially conceived in 1978 by Leonardo Katz, Filmworks ’82 was curated by author, filmmaker, critic, Kitchen artist and guest curator Amy Taubin…

Featuring a link to download Will Lee’s videogame All it does is turn, alongside a manual.

Featuring June Canedo de Souza’s ongoing project, Every Memory Belongs to a Myth, alongside an introductory text by Lumi Tan and writing by the artist.

Featuring a new project by A.J. McClenon and Katherine Simóne Reynolds, Gestures Investigating the Good and Not So Good In Relationships – As Shown to Us by Blondell Cummings (2022), alongside excerpts of the archival recording of Blondell Cummings’s performance at The Kitchen from November 30–December 3, 1989 and a series of collages by McClenon, Inspirited by For J.B. & 3B49 (2022).

Exquisite corpse is a surrealist method of collectively creating a text whereby each collaborator adds to the composition by only seeing and responding to what the previous person had written…. In the short, experimental attempt at thinking together , interdisciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis and writer Zoé Samudzi collectively approach what Dennis has termed “a Black consciousness of space” in his artistic practice…

Featuring Umber Majeed’s ongoing Trans-Pakistan Zindabad project, alongside a text written by Matthew Lyons.

Featuring excerpts from Amit Desai's film Cross Eyed (2021), alongside an introduction written by Lumi Tan and additional text written by the artist.

“Black art must take more risks! Black art must take more risks!” In 1980, the artist Lorraine O’Grady interrupted the opening-night benefit of Just Above Midtown—a gallery founded by Linda Goode Bryant in 1974 that championed primarily Black artists and artists of color from New York City and Los Angeles. O’Grady made a scene as her performance persona Mlle Bourgeoise Noire (Miss Black Middle Class), a French-Guianese pageant winner dressed in a handmade ball gown made of 180 pairs of white gloves…

In October of 2008, The Kitchen hosted A Power Stronger Than Itself: A Celebration of The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, curated by George Lewis and Christopher McIntyre. Following the publication that same year of Lewis’s book, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music, the event at The Kitchen featured performances, panels, and a book signing…

E. Jane’s first solo institutional exhibition Where there’s love overflowing is on view at The Kitchen through May 14, 2022. While the artist was installing their work at The Kitchen, Curatorial Intern Alexis Jacquet spoke them about the intersection of art and music, and the research behind the new pieces created for this exhibition. In the conversation below, they get into the legacy of Black femmes in the music industry, how history informs the work of music covers, the realities of working as both visual and performing artist, and the power of love…

Featuring Allana Clarke’s Of My Longing and My Lack (2019), alongside a text written by Legacy Russell.

From fall 1998 to winter 2004, The Kitchen regularly held a program called TV Dinner during which around forty attendees would gather to enjoy a vegetarian buffet and an evening of time-based art and conversation with featured participants—video artists, performers, musicians, dancers, curators, and more. The TV Dinner series was the brainchild of Elise Bernhardt, The Kitchen’s Executive Director from 1998–2004…

Featuring Rhea Dillon’s (Working Title) Browning 2025 (2021), along with contextualizing texts and a response to the video written by 2021–2022 Curatorial Fellow Sienna Fekete.

stefa marin alarcon was in residence through The Kitchen at Queenslab from May 17–23, 2021. The work that they created during their residency, Born With An Extra Rib: The Film, will premiere at The Kitchen on March 17, 2022. After alarcon’s residency, Curatorial Intern Maryam Rahaman spoke with the artist about their work and process...

Annie-B Parson is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Big Dance Theater, a company known for merging dance, theater, music, and visual design that celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2021. Parson's work focuses on choreographing momentary realms—using a variety of elements such as “mood, tonality, and color” to engage the audience while releasing the need for linear structure….

In December 2021, The Kitchen welcomed back Claire Chase to perform a new program of flute works, Density 2036, part viii. Celebrating its eighth year, Density 2036 is Chase’s ongoing project to commission modern flute compositions annually until the centennial of Edgard Varèse’s 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. Motivated by Varèse’s work, Chase commissioned composers Ann Cleare, Matana Roberts, and Wang Lu to help her break new ground in this year’s program…

Featuring Abbey Williams’s Intermission (2018) and Overture (2020), alongside a text written by Legacy Russell and excerpts from films that the artist references in her work.

Jen Liu’s work-in-progress video Pink Slime Caesar Shift: Electropore (2021)—the newest chapter in her ongoing body of work Pink Slime Caesar Shift (PSCS)— was released in The Kitchen’s Video Viewing Room on September 30, 2021. This new work examines the connective tissues between a biologically manipulated future, fake news, media-encouraged hysteria, consumer capitalism, and the labor realities of commodity production in the global south…