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.

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. …

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. …