In 2007, The Kitchen’s Executive Director and Chief Curator at the time, Debra Singer, and Curator Matthew Lyons organized a group exhibition called Just Kick It Till It Breaks, which featured artworks by eleven contemporary artists interrogating the relationship between political activism, consumerism, and corporate media…

One night in 1979, at the end of an evening of performances, ten artists stood in a line across The Kitchen stage facing a packed theater audience. The performer farthest left held a large cardboard box. Setting the box on the floor, he opened it and removed a smaller cardboard box…