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A.J. McClenon and Katherine Simóne Reynolds: “Gestures Investigating the Good and Not So Good In Relationships – As Shown to Us by Blondell Cummings”

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).

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Jen Liu >< Fred Ho /// “Electropore” >< “Warrior Sisters”

Featuring a work-in-progress video by artist Jen Liu, Pink Slime Caesar Shift: Electropore (2021), alongside excerpts from the video recording of the sci-fi opera from which this new work draws inspiration: Warrior Sisters: The New Adventures of African and Asian Womyn Warriors by composer and musician Fred Ho and librettist Ann T. Greene, staged at The Kitchen in 2000. Writing by Liu, archival materials related to Warrior Sisters, and reference materials for Electropore accompany the videos.

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fields harrington: “Alchemical Affinities”

Featuring new writing by artist fields harrington that responds to three works represented in The Kitchen’s archive: Kerry James Marshall’s Doppler Incident (1997), Butch Morris’s Current Trends in Racism in Modern America: (A Work in Progress) (1985), and Tracie Morris’s Sonic Synthesis (1999). Excerpts from performance recordings and ephemera are also included.

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Na Mira: “Passages Paysages Passengers”

Featuring an experimental video by Na Mira, Tesseract (test) (2020) with related archival images from a 1982 screening at The Kitchen of a work by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. These are accompanied by an introductory text by Kathy Cho, 2020–2021 Curatorial Fellow and a narrative written by Mira on the process of creating Tesseract.

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Literature at The Kitchen

Featuring recordings of selected performances and events by four artists who have presented literature or language-based programming at The Kitchen between 1976 and the present day—Constance DeJong, Jessica Hagedorn, Carl Hancock Rux, and Matvei Yankelevich of Ugly Duckling Presse—alongside images and ephemera from The Kitchen’s archive and an introductory text.

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