Jen Liu’s “Electropore”: Electrifying and Encoding Biomaterial to Build Coalitionary Force
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…
The Kitchen at Liberty High School: Spring 2021
The Kitchen’s partnership with Liberty High School Academy for Newcomers has been running for over two decades, bringing together teaching artists from our community with students at this public school in Chelsea. In a typical year, The Kitchen’s teaching artists work with English classes over the course of twelve-week residences and lead separate after-school programs. However the 2020–2021 academic year was anything but typical…
Describing the Ephemeral
The Archival Highlight project was conceived as a platform for The Kitchen’s Curatorial interns to develop their own lens through which to consider The Kitchen’s vast archive and share their findings with its audiences on Instagram. From July 22–September 8, 2021, we (Maryam Rahaman and Noa Rui-Piin Weiss) formed a project thesis, researched events from The Kitchen’s history, gathered archival materials, and prepared highlights for social media..
Figure Void to Lithic Landscapes
On September 22, 2020, The Kitchen published a Video Viewing Room featuring a performance recording of Beau Bree Rhee’s work Performance Paysage (translation Performance as Landscape) (2020) alongside images and a new artist’s text. With the aim of further animating Performance Paysage’s multilayered temporality, Rhee envisioned a second element that would complement the Video Viewing Room—a postscript that is also a beginning in its own right…
Final Installment of The Kitchen L.A.B.: Regeneration
Between September 2019 and February 2020, we convened five L.A.B. programs around the term “regeneration.” Come March, we postponed the sixth L.A.B. of the year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we began to rethink how it would be possible to preserve the spirit of the series within the digital realm. What follows is the result of our invitation to three individuals—artists Martin Beck and Narcissister and art historian and critic Jeannine Tang—to write texts that would be shared with one another…
“Deeds for AIRS”: Mutual Aid and Arts Institutions
Since March 2020, the daily context of the COVID-19 pandemic has intertwined with the movement against systemic racism and white supremacy and with the systemic fractures within our “democratic” political system. In this Kitchen Magazine piece, Rayna Holmes discusses the ways that art institutions like The Kitchen have been engaging with and supporting mutual aid initiatives in order to address the current needs of local communities, and she highlights Performance Space New York’s ongoing Deeds for AIRs fundraising campaign…
The Kitchen at Queenslab
Since the Fall/Winter 2019 season, The Kitchen has presented several events and projects at Queenslab in Ridgewood, Queens, including a concert by Mario Diaz de Leon, performances by Lauren Bakst, and an exhibition of new work by Felix Bernstein and Gabe Rubin. Currently, artist Baseera Khan is using the Queenslab space…
From Our Artists: Recent Projects Online
In an effort to support our artists during this moment in which concerts, exhibitions, album releases, book launches, and other events are cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Kitchen is compiling weekly selections of projects that you can engage with from home…
The Kitchen’s Partnership with Liberty High School
For over two decades, The Kitchen has maintained a partnership with a public high school located on 18th Street, just blocks from our building in Chelsea: Liberty High School Academy for Newcomers…
The Kitchen L.A.B. Online: Regeneration
Throughout the fall 2019 and winter 2020 seasons, The Kitchen’s L.A.B. series has focused on the notion of “regeneration,” with artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers gathering monthly to share work and ideas in response to this term. February’s event featured movement-based performance artist, urban farmer, and writer mayfield brooks; cellist, composer, and writer Ethan Philbrick; and artist and filmmaker Tourmaline…
This Week: The Kitchen L.A.B.: Regeneration
Over the past months, we have convened artists, writers, and other practitioners to reflect on the notion of “regeneration” as part of four Kitchen L.A.B. programs. During January’s L.A.B., artist and musician E. Jane, artist Jamian Juliano-Villani, and poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum came together for a spirited exchange…
Next in The Kitchen L.A.B.: Regeneration
Since September 2019, we have convened three L.A.B. events bringing together artists, writers, and other practitioners to reflect on this year’s term, “regeneration,” in relation to both their own work and contemporary social and cultural developments. Our last L.A.B. event of 2019 took place in December with artists Andrea Geyer and Jams Allister Sprang and writer and AIDS historian Sarah Schulman…
The Kitchen L.A.B.: Regeneration Continues
By virtue of its yearlong format, The Kitchen’s L.A.B. series creates opportunities for sustained, collective thinking around a single term of importance to art in dialogue with broader culture. In November, the second program of the season brought together musicians Chris Eddleton and Avram Fefer, poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and artist Sara Magenheimer…
Tina Girouard: “Pinwheel”
In collaboration with Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, The Kitchen will present a historic restaging of Tina Girouard’s Pinwheel (1977) for the inaugural Meridians sector at Art Basel Miami Beach from December 4–8 with daily performances at 3pm. The nearly hour-long piece…
The Kitchen L.A.B.: Regeneration
Since 2012, The Kitchen’s annual L.A.B. series has created opportunities for practitioners to speak with one another and with audiences while addressing terms that are relevant to our contemporary social, cultural, and artistic landscape. We launched this year’s L.A.B. season on September 18 with a conversation about the term “regeneration” among Taja Cheek, Catherine Damman, and Constance DeJong…
The Making of “Turning Towards a Radical Listening”
Last week, James Allister Sprang premiered his performance Turning Towards a Radical Listening at The Kitchen. Culminating his five-week residency, this performance in our black box space is the first full realization of a project that the artist has been developing over several years in various contexts. …
“Turning Towards a Radical Listening” Poet Conversations
How does language shape—or even program—our lives? What happens to language when it is translated and transcribed through apps or other modes of technology? In what ways are social biases encoded in these translations? These are among the questions James Allister Sprang raises in his ongoing project Turning Towards a Radical Listening. …