Featuring Brian Fuata’s of a house besieged (preposition tweaked) (2020), alongside a text written by Matthew Lyons.

Featuring Umber Majeed’s ongoing Trans-Pakistan Zindabad project, alongside a text written by Matthew Lyons.

Annie-B Parson is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Big Dance Theater, a company known for merging dance, theater, music, and visual design that celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2021. Parson's work focuses on choreographing momentary realms—using a variety of elements such as “mood, tonality, and color” to engage the audience while releasing the need for linear structure….

In December 2021, The Kitchen welcomed back Claire Chase to perform a new program of flute works, Density 2036, part viii. Celebrating its eighth year, Density 2036 is Chase’s ongoing project to commission modern flute compositions annually until the centennial of Edgard Varèse’s 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. Motivated by Varèse’s work, Chase commissioned composers Ann Cleare, Matana Roberts, and Wang Lu to help her break new ground in this year’s program…

Codex, coding, coda, coded. To begin with a few words, we can trace the ways language is at the center of our constructed identities, and the images created by them. Language is plastic; as is the organization of sexuality, and race. The ways we categorize, keep, care, and recall are collections of codes held in our bodies informed by practices of habit…

Featuring a text by Matthew Lyons and selections of video stills and archival ephemera related to the 16mm film by Elaine Summers, Windows in The Kitchen (1981).

Featuring a video that revisits ROOM, a 2005 installation and performance by Tracy + the Plastics and Fawn Krieger at The Kitchen. An introductory text, images, and ephemera accompany the video.

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…

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 second in this series of oral histories features Steve Gross, The Kitchen’s Dance Curator from 1990–1992…

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…

Featuring three of the Jenny Perlin’s recent films with an introductory text written by the artist.