On View: September 10
Come Forever (342 Hewes St, Williamsburg 11211)
Time:
4:00 pm
In an event held at Come Forever in Brooklyn, Tyler Morse and Nia Nottage of steph christ collective introduce the NYC Performance Archive 1980–2005, an open source platform launching in fall 2023 that will house video oral histories and digitized ephemera of artists and collectives involved in performance practice during a particular period of the discipline’s evolution in New York City.
The archive centers the voices of LGBT individuals, women, and artists of color. Morse and Nottage conceived the NYC Performance Archive while conducting research as participants in The Kitchen’s 2021 Research Residency. The platform will be available for access online as well as in person as a permanent installation at Come Forever.
To mark the launch of the new platform, Morse and Nottage host a screening of excerpts from the newly released oral history videos followed by a panel discussion between artists represented therein.
BIOS
Tyler Morse currently works alongside Willie Kearse, developing the Archive-Based Creative Arts workshop and press in collaboration with artists and authors incarcerated in NY (archivebasedarts.org). In the past few years, she’s collaborated with Rider Alsop (Porosity Press; BAILFRONT; Rewriting the Given Workshop), Nia Nottage (NYC Performance Oral History Archive 1980-2005; The Kitchen Research Residency; Come Forever @ 342 Hewes), Sarah Steadman (Come Forever @ 342 Hewes; Porosity Press @ Mt. Lebanon Residency), co/hosted workshops at Wendy's Subway and The Poetry Project, and published the work of Mohammed Zenia and Kamal Fardan. She's interested in open-access archival models, book-making, and collective practice.
Nia Nottage is an archivist, media artist, and arts organizer. Their projects aim to transform markers of time and place in contemporary media. Their focus includes community activism, internet pornography, performance, and somatics. They were a 2021 Kitchen Research Resident in collaboration with Tyler Morse and Steph Christ Collective.
steph christ is a fag communist collective of artists, archivists, and activists, as well as a small press. http://stephs.net.
Come Forever (CFE) is a forthcoming social space for cross-accessible contact opening in June of 2023. It’s home to a variety of free health resources as well as public archives, a bookmaking collaborative, public restroom and a small library. CFE is a mask non-optional space for the promotion of rest and physical and mental health and well-being.
FUNDING SUPPORT & CREDITS
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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