July 31, 2023
Pluralized Precedent: Black Queer Culture in Art at The Kitchen
Together, these Spotlight programs reconceptualize forms of revolutionary visibility, re-visiting and re-membering through processes of referential, liminal conversation.
On Mind
July 20, 2023
Collaborative Perversions & Haunted Temporalities: Revisiting "The Undead"
Jagged movements fill the stage as bodies flail and fall limp into one another’s awaiting arms or ground and steady in jolted motion; ominous drone disintegrations of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” flood the sonic space...
June 27, 2023
Anonymous Populations: Diamanda Galás’s "InSEkta" Thirty Years Later
“Don’t Look to Diamanda Galás for Comfort” reads a New York Times headline preemptively covering the premiere of Galás’s “electro-acoustic monodrama” InSEkta, which opened the Serious Fun! Festival at Lincoln Center on July 8, 1993.
June 14, 2023
Fall 2023 Video Viewing Rooms
June 12, 2023
Rashad Newsome and Kalup Linzy at The Kitchen
In February of 2009, Rashida Bumbray, during her tenure as an associate curator at the Kitchen, invited Rashaad Newsome and Kalup Linzy to collaborate on a project that would be staged in The Kitchen’s iconic black box theater.
May 30, 2023
Performance, Ephemerality and the Archive
As a time-based medium, performance poses a paradox for documentation. With the advent of video technology, performance has become inextricably linked to video recordings as a primary form of documentation.
December 16, 2022