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..
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…
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. …
In Conversation with James Allister Sprang
For five weeks from today through the end of October, artist James Allister Sprang is in residence in The Kitchen’s first-floor space, developing a new iteration of his ongoing project Turning Towards a Radical Listening. Sprang will begin his residency by organizing a sound-based sculptural installation, which will become a stage for public conversations with poets…