Will Lee: “All it does is turn”
Featuring a link to download Will Lee’s videogame All it does is turn, alongside a manual.
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).
Ilana Harris-Babou: “Coral Gardens”
Featuring a new multimedia work by Ilana Harris-Babou, Coral Gardens (2021), which brings together video, archival documents, and contemporary correspondence.
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…
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.
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.
Steffani Jemison: “Recitatif (What if we need new words?)”
Featuring an interview between Steffani Jemison and curator Cindy Sissokho about the artist’s series of works titled Recitatif. Jemison and Sissokho discuss the series and their collaboration on the performance Recitatif: Never saying anything at all (2017), at Nottingham Contemporary in 2017.
Ian Andrew Askew: “SLAMDANCE TV”
Featuring a new video by Ian Andrew Askew, SLAMDANCE TV (2021), accompanied by writing by the artist and archival material from a 1986 performance by The Black Rock Coalition at The Kitchen.
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.
Carlota Schoolman
Featuring a selection of videos produced by Carlota Schoolman and her production company Fifi Corday Productions, and projects she produced while working for The Kitchen. Also included are an introductory text contextualizing Schoolman’s tenure as The Kitchen’s Video Director from 1974–1977 and Associate Director for Television Production from 1978–1986, transcribed excerpts from an oral history with Schoolman, images, and ephemera.
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…
A Dialogue with Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty
Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty are interdisciplinary artists who work collaboratively on projects that range from installations and performances to experimental films and interactive video scores. Their collaboration also extends in some cases into their efforts as teaching artists: for instance, Irons and Petty have contributed jointly to The Kitchen’s education programs at Liberty High School Academy for Newcomers for roughly ten years…
Jill Kroesen: “Stanley Oil and His Mother”
Featuring a recording of Jill Kroesen’s performance Stanley Oil and His Mother: A Systems Portrait of the Western World (1977), along with archival images, ephemera, and a new interview between Kroesen and Alison Burstein, Curator, Media and Engagement.
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…
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…
Oral History: JoAnn Fregalette Jansen
As part of our ongoing research into The Kitchen’s dance program in the 1980s and 1990s, our curators will be speaking to choreographers who worked with The Kitchen in these years. The first of these oral histories features JoAnn Fregalette Jansen, The Kitchen’s Dance Curator from 1992–1994…
Jenny Perlin: “The Bunker Films”
Featuring three of the Jenny Perlin’s recent films with an introductory text written by the artist.
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…