A wave of excitement sweeps over me when I rummage through The Kitchen’s archive. It holds a trove of events, experiments, gatherings, and ideas that do not merely dwell in the past, but also offer diverse perspectives that remain applicable today. Take for example Memoryscan (1999), a dance performance choreographed by koosil-ja…

A tribute to a longtime member of The Kitchen’s community, Hal Willner, featuring a statement from Executive Director and Chief Curator Tim Griffin, reflections from artists who collaborated with Willner, and excerpts from the television show Night Music.

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 archival recordings of two performances by Eiko & Koma, Trilogy and Nurse’s Song (both 1981), along with images and a written response by one of Eiko’s current collaborators, artist DonChristian.

Known for her pioneering work in media art, performance, and film, Lynn Hershman Leeson has been exploring the relationship between humans and technology since the late 1960s. She has collaborated with The Kitchen on three occasions—in 1990, 1999, and 2019…

Featuring a video of Lex Brown’s performance Foccaciatown:Reloaded (2019) along with related images and an accompanying text written by the artist.

In November 2019, Audika Records released Iowa Dream, a compilation of demos Arthur Russell recorded for major labels…In light of this recent release, I was inspired to look at Russell’s relationship with The Kitchen and his work as Music Director from 1974 to 1975…

Featuring music videos created by Testu Collective (Serena Stucke and Dan Tesene) for the five songs that comprise Clarice Jensen’s recent album The experience of repetition as death (2020), along with introductory notes from the artists.

Ka Baird and Max Eilbacher—two innovative and celebrated musicians, producers, and performers—are teaming up in an exciting collaboration for The Kitchen titled Vivification Exercises. Each of their extensive bodies of work balance playful experimentation with a sense of deep introspection that invites listeners into a world both engaging and disorienting…

Featuring a new video that relays two texts from the zine for after summer (2019) and an excerpt from the recording of the performance in December alongside a new text written by the artist.

In the fall of 2017, Stanley Love Performance Group (SLPG) was the first large-scale show that I worked as House Manager at The Kitchen. It being my inaugural show was special for me from the jump-off, and it has only cemented itself as such over time…

Featuring a 3D rendering of the installation Vomitorium (2020) alongside a single-channel excerpt from the video.

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…

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

Over the course of three weekends in June 2019, the ASSEMBLY series made a spirited contribution to ongoing discussions both within The Kitchen and in the art world at large about the relationships between space and performance. Organized by Kevin Beasley and The Kitchen’s curatorial team, ASSEMBLY featured sixteen performers…

Featuring an archival recording of Rhys Chatham, Drastic Classical Music for Electric Instruments (1981) alongside an introductory text written by the artist and related images and ephemera from The Kitchen’s archive.

I came across Chantal Akerman’s work when I first moved to New York City in August 2001. My future wife, a native New Yorker, told me about News From Home (1977), a film made up of long static or panning shots of the city—mostly empty platforms, mundane East Village corners, and the like…

Throughout the fall 2019 and winter 2020 seasons, The Kitchen’s L.A.B. series has focused on the notion of “regeneration,” with artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers gathering monthly to share work and ideas in response to this term. February’s event featured movement-based performance artist, urban farmer, and writer mayfield brooks; cellist, composer, and writer Ethan Philbrick; and artist and filmmaker Tourmaline…

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…

Since 2010, Felix Bernstein and Gabe Rubin have been working collaboratively on live performances, film projects, and multimedia exhibitions. Their multifaceted production is primarily informed by drag performance, queer theory, greek mythology/tragedy, and social media…