Featuring footage of Greg Mehrten, Ron Vawter, and Marianne Weems’s Queer & Alone (1993), along with an introductory text written by 2019–2020 Curatorial Fellow Elizabeth Wiet; ephemera related to the artist trio’s Fall 1993 residency at The Kitchen; Ken Kobland’s End Credits (1994); and a video conversation between Mehrten, Weems, and Wiet.

Featuring an audio-essay by Ethan Philbrick on the colonial history of a Baroque slow dance called the Sarabande, as well as video documentation of a first meeting in an ongoing, remote collaborative research process between Philbrick and six dance artists: Anh Vo, Tess Dworman, Niall Jones, Tara Aisha Willis, nibia pastrana santiago, and Moriah Evans.

Since March 2020, the daily context of the COVID-19 pandemic has intertwined with the movement against systemic racism and white supremacy and with the systemic fractures within our “democratic” political system. In this Kitchen Magazine piece, Rayna Holmes discusses the ways that art institutions like The Kitchen have been engaging with and supporting mutual aid initiatives in order to address the current needs of local communities, and she highlights Performance Space New York’s ongoing Deeds for AIRs fundraising campaign…

Featuring excerpts from a performance recording of Beau Bree Rhee, Performance Paysage (translation Performance as Landscape) (2020), along with an accompanying text and drawings by the artist.

Since the Fall/Winter 2019 season, The Kitchen has presented several events and projects at Queenslab in Ridgewood, Queens, including a concert by Mario Diaz de Leon, performances by Lauren Bakst, and an exhibition of new work by Felix Bernstein and Gabe Rubin. Currently, artist Baseera Khan is using the Queenslab space…

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…

Featuring a performance recording of Sahra Motalebi, Directory of Portrayals (2017), along with artist’s comments, an excerpt of the Director’s notes, and production images.

In an effort to support our artists during this moment in which concerts, exhibitions, album releases, book launches, and other events are cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Kitchen is compiling weekly selections of projects that you can engage with from home…

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…

Autumn Knight’s residency in The Kitchen’s building at 512 West 19th Street is an example of an artist interacting with the realm of the unknown—a realm that has become far too familiar with the unpredictable changes that the pandemic and uprisings have caused…

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…

Featuring a performance recording of Wadada Leo Smith, Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs (2019), along with a composer’s note and still images.

Artists are skilled at adapting to ever-changing conditions in society and technology. During a time when artists are grappling with the circumstances created by COVID-19 and quickly developing new avenues to show their work beyond physical spaces, I was inspired to look more closely at the career of video artist Joan Logue…

Featuring materials related to Lawrence Weiner’s video Do You Believe in Water (1976), including archival images, ephemera, and excerpts from a recent conversation between Weiner and The Kitchen’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, Tim Griffin.

We walked down tenth avenue in the early afternoon, sun overhead with no shade cover from trees or buildings. On many blocks you could see directly out to the Hudson. We may have stopped into a few commercial galleries along the way; I truly can’t recall…

For over two decades, The Kitchen has maintained a partnership with a public high school located on 18th Street, just blocks from our building in Chelsea: Liberty High School Academy for Newcomers…

Featuring a recording of a panel discussion with Lauren Berlant, Sadhana Bery, Rizvana Bradley, Jane Caflisch, Lori Gruen, and Saidiya Hartman that took place at The Kitchen in 2018.

Featuring still images of Moriah Evans, Configure (2019) performed at The Kitchen; a statement written by the artist; and an excerpt from the score of movement strategies for this piece.