Greg Mehrten, Ron Vawter, and Marianne Weems: The Pomodori Foundation
Featuring footage of Greg Mehrten, Ron Vawter, and Marianne Weems’s Queer & Alone (1993), along with an introductory text written by 2019–2020 Curatorial Fellow Elizabeth Wiet; ephemera related to the artist trio’s Fall 1993 residency at The Kitchen; Ken Kobland’s End Credits (1994); and a video conversation between Mehrten, Weems, and Wiet.
Birnbaum, Bender, Perry
Following the conversation that The Kitchen hosted between Dara Birnbaum and Sondra Perry on February 15, I was moved to write an essay exploring The Kitchen’s history of supporting video made by female artists and assessing the formal and thematic concerns linking their work…
A Dialogue with Muyassar Kurdi
Muyassar Kurdi is an interdisciplinary artist who works across film, movement, sound, and performance. Her record Voice Games, recorded in collaboration with Ka Baird, was released on Astral Spirits on February 28. This spring, The Kitchen has been working with Muyassar to develop a workshop for MoMA PS1’s Come Together (Apart) festival…
In Conversation with Richard Maxwell
Richard Maxwell is a playwright and theater director best known for his work with the New York City Players, a company he founded in 1999. Utilizing sparse sets and often laconic acting styles, Maxwell reduces theater to its most essential elements, creating plays that, in the words of critic Hilton Als, oscillate between the “mythic” and the “mundane.” …