On View: September 27-September 30
thekitchen.org
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Web Project Launching in September 2023
“...the ‘counter-archive’ represents an incomplete and unstable repository, an entity to be contested and expanded through clandestine acts, a space of impermanence and play. Taken as an action, the term entails mischief and imagination, challenging the record of official history. Employed as an artistic strategy it pushes our archival impulse into new territories, encouraging critique and material alteration/fabrication…To counter-archive is to counter-act, to rewrite, to animate over.”
— Brett Kashmere, Cache Rules Everything Around Me, Introduction to Incite Issue #2: Counter Archive
The Kitchen L.A.B. Research Residency primary researcher Asha Tamirisa presents a web-based platform informed by notions of the counter-archive. The web platform invites visitor participation and encourages polyvocality and dynamism, such that work in this version of the archive is never stable defined by a single authority. The web platform offers one possible example for how an archive can be relational, critical, political, and communal, with the ultimate goal of producing evidence of the complex relationship between the Global South and American experimental sonic arts and aesthetics.
The web platform will launch in tandem with a roundtable conversation facilitated by Tamirisa with artist-researchers Sharmi Basu, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Amirtha Kidambi, and Rajna Swaminathan, airing on Montez Press Radio on September 27 at 7pm EST as part of the series Instruments of the Black Gooey Universe On Air.
This project is part of This project is part of The Kitchen L.A.B. Research Residency x Simons Foundation x School for Poetic Computation.
BIO
Asha Tamirisa (she/her) is an artist and researcher, primarily working with sound and video in performance and installation. Her work often explores matereality and metaphor, history and archives, and gender and technology. Tamirisa holds a Ph.D. in Computer Music and Multimedia and an M.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, and has taught at Street Level Youth Media, Brown University, RISD, and Bates College.
FUNDING SUPPORT & CREDITS
The Kitchen L.A.B. Research Residency is generously supported by the Simons Foundation, whose mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences. The Foundation’s Science, Society and Culture division seeks to provide opportunities for people to forge a connection to science—whether for the first time or a lifetime. Through their initiatives, they work to inspire a feeling of awe and wonder, foster connections between people and science, and support environments that provide a sense of belonging.
The Kitchen’s programs are made possible through generous support from annual grants from Bloomberg Philanthropies, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Simons Foundation, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, and Teiger Foundation; and in part by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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