Bilna'es, nora chipaumire, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Juliana Huxtable, Darrell Jones, Julie Tolentino, Wendy’s Subway, Andrea Zavala Folache & Adriano Wilfert Jensen

In performance: nora chipaumire • Juliana Huxtable • Julie Tolentino

keywords: affinity, atmosphere, commemoration, commons, energy, erotics, flesh-body, freedom, friendship, giving-receiving, loss, materiality, mortality, (non)knowledge, observation, research, revolution, service, speculation, survival, unstable archives

In practice: Bilna’es • Denise Ferreira da Silva • Darrell Jones

keywords: air, becoming, black feminist poethics, crisis, dancing, disorder, difference without separability, gravity, hijacking, improvisation, negation, participant, periphery, permutation, praxis, refuge, refusal, rhythm, un-languageable

In process: Wendy’s Subway • Andrea Zavala Folache & Adriano Wilfert Jensen

keywords: attention, collectivity, complicity, conviviality, elsewhere, dispersal, interdependence, movement, methodology, play, rehearsal, scoring, time, tempo, transmission, translation

In performance, we gather in proximity to the works and lifeworlds of nora chipaumire, Juliana Huxtable, and Julie Tolentino. Each artist offers performances that differently inhabit and refract liveness as a proposition, need, and horizon. Their works sharpen, tear, and cut into the multiplicities and densities that charge the present, the excessive and playful art of the edit, the instability and difference that emerges in the archival encounter. chipaumire’s acontinua - an obituary, a manual for a life lived chasing LIFE is a revolutionary meditation that iterates across two nights, channeling the maximal into the distilled and back again. Juliana Huxtable extends her lush interspecies, intra-animating poetics into a shifting environment of language, light, and sound for GFP (GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN). Building on their archiving-performance project The Sky Remains the Same, Julie Tolentino gives group form to Lovett/Codagnone’s 1999/2005 duet CLOSER, attuning us to the urgent task of keeping the impossible record.

In practice, we read, listen, dance, talk, wonder, and dream with Bilna’es, Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Darrell Jones. Expanded listening and study sessions with the adisciplinary platform Bilna’es dwell in the resounding anticolonial multitude of life-lived in the negative. Poethical readings of the Tarot led by Denise Ferreira da Silva challenge the inherited philosophical and epistemological traditions that constitute the political-architecture of the present, welcoming our capacities for “existence as implicancy.” The physical-poetic-philosophical is alive in Darrell Jones’ practice sessions that invite participants toward extremes and edges, finding non-redemptive ways of moving the body through intensity.

In process, we promiscuously accumulate, collide and (dis)arrange matters and materials in the Wendy’s Subway’s Reading Room, inseparable assembly, and in the zona de juego, a manifestation of Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen’s project Domestic Anarchism. inseparable assembly constellates a collection of texts that prompt connections and webs of thought. Through a screening program with the After Hours Film School, inseparable assembly attends to the many valences of rehearsal. Domestic Anarchism: zona de juego makes a place for ambient conviviality and cohabitation. Emerging from a series of intimate collaborations that blur living and making, the zona de juego and its companion session bailes with Malcolm-x Betts shapeshift between dancing, mark-making, ingesting, and reflecting.

STL, Vol. 4 swarms improvisationally against attempts at institutional, disciplinary, and repressive enclosure. We’ve already been swarming. Our movement is the dissonant counter-sway, a hesitant social dance within a para-site containing and scattering our immeasurable para-fictions. We gather cause we want to and we have to. STL is open to all — we are all students.

Come fantasize, disrupt, and unwork the school, the scene, the scheme…

— Lauren Bakst & Niall Jones

PROGRAM

View the full program and schedule on temporaryliveness.org.

The School for Temporary Liveness reimagines performance through the poetic frame of a school. STL asks: What if we approach performances as invitations to enter into study? Inversely, if we imagine the whole operation of a school as a performance, how does that change the ways we teach and learn, or what we think of as knowledge?

When approached as a form that bears the excesses, instabilities, and ruptures of social life, performance—like school—can be an excuse for taking part in dissonant communion. Amid crumbling and defunct infrastructures for assembly, STL Vol. 4 proposes a para-site for renewal, refuge, and possibility.

Following three prior presentations in Philadelphia in 2019, 2020, and 2023, STL Vol. 4, presented in New York City for the first time and dually broadcasted live on Montez Press Radio, creates a site for emergent and collective study, mobilizing formats for practice, action, and reflection over three days.

The School for Temporary Liveness Vol. 4 is organized by guest curators Lauren Bakst and Niall Jones, with Matthew Lyons and Angelique Rosales Salgado, The Kitchen. Production by David Riley, Production & Exhibitions Manager, and Tassja Walker, Production Supervisor, The Kitchen.

LOFT

4:30 pm, in practice

Metaphysics of the Elements: The Studio on Reading (Air)

Denise Ferreira da Silva

Free with RSVP

No kidding! This is a moment of crisis! But …

What if the end of the world as we know it is not something that takes place somewhere in time or begins at a certain place? What if the end of the world as we know it is just right there, anywhere, and everywhere, as a hidden dimension?

The Metaphysics of the Elements supports poethical reading as a practice because it gathers and nurtures tools, practices, and propositions that already enact or help in the imagining and enacting of terrestrial existence otherwise than what has prevailed in the past 500 years or so.

In this iteration of The Studio, where the hidden dimension is accessed, we experiment with reading as a correspondence of the element Air. On Reading (Air) elaborates on the capacities attributed to matter when considered through Air. But here materiality is considered in terms of aesthesis, that is, re/de/composition in the intellectual register, in which the abstract (figural and formal) is inseparable from the concrete (actual and material), because indistinguishable when one attends to deep implicancy as the key to existential conditions.

Key here is the correspondence between Air and Aesthesis, as the latter is here employed because — unlike aesthetic, which already obtains the experience (feeling of pleasure) of the beautiful as purely mental — it conveys the inseparability of the corporeal and mental feelings. As we may have the chance to observe/experience, it is not uncommon to have goosebumps while reading the Tarot!

During this reading session the various significations of Air (the invisible, the atmosphere, public exposure, a mode or manner, expression and movement, will guide us to appreciation of existence as implicancy, as when/as each participant enjoys the collaborative modality that is poethical reading. By that I mean, reading as also experimenting with how every time anyone reads that person is reading with all those who have read, are readings as well as will read, with the same figures and format (the Tarot) in a moment of crisis.

ACCESS NOTES

Entry: Late entry is not guaranteed. There are stairs or ramp access to an open door marked with The Kitchen's name, behind which there is an elevator accessible to the public. The elevator enters directly into the loft. Seating: This program is seated via foldable, cushioned chairs in the loft space. We are happy to accommodate and adjust for individuals who require wheelchair access upon request. Duration: The program run-time is about 1.5 hours total. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

LOFT

6:00 pm, in practice

Listening Session: Only sounds that tremble through us

Bilna’es

Free with RSVP

Bilnaes’s latest musical release, Only sounds that tremble through us is part of the ongoing project from Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth. The album Only sounds that tremble through us is a double LP. The first record features a full album of compositions by Abbas and Abou-Rahme, developed as part of the project between 2022 and 2024, while the second record is an album made up of commissioned compositions by Hiro Kone, Drew McDowall, Makimakkuk, Julmud, Haykal, SCRAAATCH, Muqata’a, Freddie June, and DJ Haram in conversation with the project.

The wider project begins with a collection of online recordings of unknown figures (mostly from Palestine, Iraq, and Syria) performing through song, music, and dance either in the intimacy of their homes, or on a street, in a square, at a wedding or on a beach having just found refuge. May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth examines the place and significance of voice in the form of song and oral poetry, and body in the form of dance and gesture as a political act of embodiment and becoming in a moment marked by various forms of violence against entire living fabrics. The project repositions these moments as a material witness inscribed through body, movement, rhythm, and voice to the destruction of everyday life that is occurring or has occurred. Equally, it is also one of the most critical ways in which these fractured communities are resisting their own erasure and laying claim to space, self, and community once more.

For the School of Temporary Liveness, Bilna’es will host a listening session to the two sides of the LP, with the presence of the contributing musicians DJ Haram, SCRAAATCH, Drew McDowall, Hiro Kone, Haykal, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. The session will reflect on the politics of sound and the aesthetics of sampling and borrowing as materialized and conceptualized in the project, inviting participants to spend time in prolonged, collective study with the album, listening and reflecting with the artists who have had an extensive engagement with the wider project.

ACCESS NOTES

Please note: This listening session may include loud sounds. Earplugs are available at the door. Entry: Late entry is permitted at any time dependent on capacity. There are stairs or ramp access to an open door marked with The Kitchen's name, behind which there is an elevator accessible to the public. The elevator enters directly into the loft. Duration: The program run-time is about two hours total. Audiences are welcome to come and go. Seating: This program is seated via foldable, cushioned chairs in the loft space, as well as intermittent seating via couches, gallery benches, and floor cushions. We are happy to accommodate and adjust for individuals who require wheelchair access upon request. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

BASEMENT

8:00 pm, in performance

acontinua - an obituary, a manual for a life lived chasing LIFE

nora chipaumire

Tickets: $10-30 Sliding Scale

When MITsp – Mostra Internacional de Teatro de São Paulo invited nora chipaumire to present a retrospective of past works, she refused to participate in this linear and institutionalized format of presentation. acontinua - an obituary, a manual for a life lived chasing LIFE was made out of this refusal, as a commitment to liveness and the knowledge that all our experiences become muscle, breath, footfall, backbend. The word acontinua celebrates André Lepecki’s ongoing work with liberatory choreographies and marks the artist’s personal dedication to the Mozambican revolutionary leader Eduardo Mondale, the Zapatistas, and all the unsung women without whom change is impossible. Now, chipaumire re-situates this generative refusal in the basement at Westbeth over two distinctive performances. For this deeply personal work, chipaumire is joined by long-time collaborators, artist and performer Shamar Watt and musician David Gagliardi.

ACCESS NOTES

Please note: This performance contains use of fog, and may include loud sounds. Earplugs are available at the door. Entry: Doors open 15 minutes prior to the performance. Please arrive on time to ensure smooth check-in. Late entry is not guaranteed. There is an ADA accessible entrance via elevator in the lobby at 55 Bethune St. There is entry via stairwell through a steep spiral staircase leading directly into the basement space. Seating: There will be seating throughout the space via foldable, cushioned chairs. Visitors are welcome to sit or stand during the duration of the performance. Duration: The program run-time is about 1.5 hours total. Exits:

BASEMENT

9:00 pm, in process

After Hours Film School: Screening

Wendy's Subway

Free with RSVP

After Hours Film School presents a screening program about rehearsal, improvisation, and musical and embodied interpretation as forms of collective study.

ACCESS NOTES

Entry: Please arrive on time to ensure minimal disruption of the filmic presentations. Late entry is not guaranteed. There are stairs or ramp access to an open door marked with The Kitchen's name, behind which there is an elevator accessible to the public. The elevator enters directly into the loft. Seating: This program is seated via foldable, cushioned chairs in the loft space. We are happy to accommodate and adjust for individuals who require wheelchair access upon request. Duration: The program run-time is about 1.5 hours total. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

FRIDAY, JULY 11

LOFT

1:00-2:30 pm, in practice

I get lost...

Darrell Jones

Free with RSVP

PRACTICE!

PROGRESSION of research PRACTICES

my PEOPLE miller, lemon, tanaka, zollar

POST-modern PRACTITIONERS

POP, dip and spin

i come from a line of PREACHERS

speaking in POETICS

repeating with PLAIN LANGUAGE

“…a PHYSICAL LANGUAGE for the human condition”

how do you PLACE it in the body?

what are PRACTICES that allow it to emerge in the body?

PRINCIPLES

PLACE POLITICS in the body

notice how PERSONAL PHILOSOPHIES emerge as we try on

a PEDAGOGY of call and response

POLYATTENTION

PHYSICALITY

PLAY with PARTS of our PERSON

PROPOSITIONS

PERCEIVE

PERIPHERAL what’s around the body

PUPIL where’s the center

POSTERIOR what’s behind us

falling PRACTICE

PROTESTS and PERMUTATIONS of gravity

PERSISTENCE with redirections

acts of PASSIVE resistance

PLAN, PRECARIOUS our choices in dealing with force

PATTERNS of POSITIONALITY

the cultures PROMINENT in the PLACE

POV

PARALLEL-PERPENDICULAR trajectories

PERSISTENCE in PROCESS

PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLES edges of experience to create the appetite for furthering

P * SSY / P * NK tactics, who to take out

POWER ability to direct or influence the behavior of others/self in the course of events

PARADIGM shift-a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions

observer/PARTICIPANT watch/do

This class inquiry is grounded in my extensive investigation into structures and tactics for training the body to go to the edge of the physical experience. We’ll practice the extreme moment, movement. Within reason. Within range. Within context.

ACCESS NOTES

Please note: This is a physical class that involves moving in space with other bodies and sound. It will encourage going to extreme physical limits, with options to move at your own pace, to step back, rest, and observe. Entry: Please arrive on time so participants can engage in the full range of the workshop. Space is limited. Late entry is not guaranteed. Duration: The program run-time is about 1.5 hours total. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

LOFT

2:45-4:45 pm, in practice

Workshop: To all those we are indebted to

Bilna'es

Free with RSVP

after everything is extracted

بعد ما استخرج كل شيء

in the lack

بالنقص

in the negative

بالناقص

in zero

بالصفر

in sub in minus in debt

بالأدنى بالسالب بالديْن

This workshop session will highlight themes engaged by Bilna’es as an adisciplinary publishing platform supporting artistic communities in Palestine and beyond. Through collective reading and discussion led by members of Bilna’es and extended collaborators, participants in the workshop session will explore themes of indebtedness and colonial debt and the politics of refusal through the ongoing prisoners’ struggle in Palestine, with a focus on prison literature and art. Prior reading is required.

ACCESS NOTES

Entry: Please arrive on time so participants can engage in the full range of the workshop. Space is limited. Participatory engagement is encouraged. Late entry is not guaranteed. There are stairs or ramp access to an open door marked with The Kitchen's name, behind which there is an elevator accessible to the public. The elevator enters directly into the loft. Duration: The program run-time is about two hours total. Seating: This program is seated via foldable, cushioned chairs in the loft space, as well as intermittent seating via couches, gallery benches, and floor cushions. We are happy to accommodate and adjust for individuals who require wheelchair access upon request. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

LOFT

5-7 pm, in process

Domestic Anarchism: bailes

Andrea Zavala Folache & Adriano Wilfert Jensen with Malcolm-x Betts

Free with RSVP

Bailes is an experiment in transmission and opening up a dance performance to let a new constellation find its rhythm. Bailes means ‘dances’, but more like La Macarena and salsa than Trio A and Swan Lake. Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen will work with New York based artist Malcolm-x Betts art for ten days leading up to School for Temporary Liveness, transmitting conversations, practices and materials that emerged previously from a series of intimate collaborations, each addressing problems of ‘the family.’ Living within zona de juego, all are invited along for this transmission to linger, rephrase, and situate anew these problematic bailes.

This experiment is part of a long term research project under the title Domestic Anarchism. Its materials and practices have been developed in a series of collaborations with HaYoung, Alissa Šnaider, Paolo Gile, Emma Daniel, Lisa Schåman and Lauren Bakst.

Reading and Writing in Tempo

Wendy’s Subway

Free with RSVP

In this collective reading and writing session, participants are invited to engage with the publications collected in the inseparable assembly Reading Room. A series of prompts will guide us through experiments in translating form, time, movement, and genre to the page.

ACCESS NOTES

Entry: Entry is permitted at any time dependent on capacity. There are stairs or ramp access to an open door marked with The Kitchen's name, behind which there is an elevator accessible to the public. The elevator enters directly into the loft. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Duration: The program run-time is about two hours total. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

LOFT

7-11 pm, in performance

THE SKY REMAINS THE SAME: Archiving Lovett/Codagnone’s CLOSER 1999, 2005 in 2025 (Group)

Julie Tolentino

Tickets: $10-30 Sliding Scale

Julie Tolentino offers new form to a Lovett/Codagnone performance Closer (1999). THE SKY REMAINS THE SAME: Archiving Lovett/Codagnone’s CLOSER 1999, 2005 in 2025 (Group) studies structures of queer engagement, generational memory, and non-linear temporalities through experimental process such as durational performance, site-sensitivity, and the rich landscapes of interdisciplinary artist practices. Created specifically for the School for Temporary Liveness, this group project is part of Tolentino’s ongoing practice from 2006, The Sky Remains the Same, and features artists: Stosh Fila, Kris Lee, Andrew Suggs, and STL curators Lauren Bakst and Niall Jones.

ACCESS NOTES

Please note: This performance will take place across two sites: the loft space and the basement space. Entry: Late entry is permitted at any time dependent on capacity. There are stairs or ramp access to an open door marked with The Kitchen's name, behind which there is an elevator accessible to the public. The elevator enters directly into the loft. Duration: The program run-time is about four hours total. Audiences are encouraged to experience the performance across both sites. Seating: Visitors are encouraged to move throughout the space. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

BASEMENT

8 pm, in performance

GFP (GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN)

Juliana Huxtable

Tickets: $10-30 Sliding Scale

Writer, artist, and musician Juliana Huxtable creates a new performance that emerges from the world of her forthcoming poetry collection. GFP (GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN) stages a collision of language and sound alongside WILDBLUR’s transient, fugitive architectures of light and will also feature DJ and producer ViaApp.

ACCESS NOTES

Please note: This performance contains strobe lights and loud sounds. Ear plugs are available at the door. Entry: Doors open 15 minutes prior to the performance. Please arrive on time to ensure smooth check-in. Late entry is not guaranteed. There is an ADA accessible entrance via elevator in the lobby at 55 Bethune St. There is entry via stairwell through a steep spiral staircase leading directly into the basement space. Seating: There will be scattered seating throughout the space. Visitors are welcome to sit or stand during the duration of the performance. Duration: The program run-time is about 1 hour total. Exits:

SATURDAY, JULY 12

LOFT

2-4 pm, in practice

Metaphysics of the Elements - The Studio on Reading (Air)

Denise Ferreira da Silva

Free with RSVP

This second session is limited to 20 participants.

[ Description - same as above ]

ACCESS NOTES

Entry: Please arrive on time so participants can engage in the full range of the workshop. Space is limited. Late entry is not permitted. There are stairs or ramp access to an open door marked with The Kitchen's name, behind which there is an elevator accessible to the public. The elevator enters directly into the loft. Seating: This program is seated via foldable, cushioned chairs in the loft space. We are happy to accommodate and adjust for individuals who require wheelchair access upon request. Duration: The program run-time is about two hours total. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

BASEMENT

3 pm, in conversation

Do Not Become Enamored of Power

Lia Gangitano and Julie Tolentino

Free with RSVP

Join PARTICIPANT INC founder/director Lia Gangitano and artist Julie Tolentino for a conversation responding to, riffing on, and annotating the previous night’s performance of THE SKY REMAINS THE SAME: Archiving Lovett/Codagnone’s CLOSER 1999, 2005 in 2025 (Group). The pair will discuss the histories and resonances of Lovett/Codagnone’s interdisciplinary art practice, which used photography, performance, video, sound, and installation to address issues of collective identity and relations of power in social structures, focusing on the absorption of underground tactics of resistance. The two also reflect on their ongoing commitments and approaches to queer performance archives as radical acts of care—from Tolentino’s ongoing project The Sky Remains the Same to PARTICIPANT INC’s estate-building work.

ACCESS NOTES

Entry: Doors open 15 minutes prior to the conversation. Please arrive on time to ensure smooth check-in. Late entry is not guaranteed. There is an ADA accessible entrance via elevator in the lobby at 55 Bethune St. There is entry via stairwell through a steep spiral staircase leading directly into the basement space. Seating: There will be scattered seating throughout the space. Visitors are welcome to sit or stand during the duration of the conversation. Duration: The program run-time is about 1 hour and 30 minutes total. Exits:

LOFT

4:30-6 pm, in practice

I get lost...

Darrell Jones

Free with RSVP

[ Description - same as above ]

ACCESS NOTES

Please note: This is a physical class that involves moving in space with other bodies and sound. It will encourage going to extreme physical limits, with options to move at your own pace, to step back, rest, and observe. Entry: Please arrive on time so participants can engage in the full range of the workshop. Space is limited. Late entry is not guaranteed. Duration: The program run-time is about 1.5 hours total. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

BASEMENT

6 pm, in performance

GFP (GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN)

Juliana Huxtable

Tickets: $10-30 Sliding Scale

Writer, artist, and musician Juliana Huxtable creates a new performance that emerges from the world of her forthcoming poetry collection. GFP (GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN) stages a collision of language and sound alongside WILDBLUR’s transient, fugitive architectures of light and will also feature DJ and producer ViaApp.

ACCESS NOTES

Please note: This performance contains strobe lights and loud sounds. Ear plugs are available at the door. Entry: Doors open 15 minutes prior to the performance. Please arrive on time to ensure smooth check-in. Late entry is not guaranteed. There is an ADA accessible entrance via elevator in the lobby at 55 Bethune St. There is entry via stairwell through a steep spiral staircase leading directly into the basement space. Seating: There will be scattered seating throughout the space. Visitors are welcome to sit or stand during the duration of the performance. Duration: The program run-time is about 1 hour total. Exits:

BASEMENT

7:00 pm, in performance

a post-mortem speculative interrogation of acontinua – an obituary, a manual for a life lived chasing LIFE

nora chipaumire with David Gagliardi and Shamar Watt

Tickets: $10-30 Sliding Scale

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ACCESS NOTES

Please note: This performance contains use of fog. Entry: Doors open 15 minutes prior to the performance. Please arrive on time to ensure smooth check-in. Late entry is not guaranteed. There is an ADA accessible entrance via elevator in the lobby at 55 Bethune St. There is entry via stairwell through a steep spiral staircase leading directly into the basement space. Seating: There will be seating throughout the space via foldable, cushioned chairs. Visitors are welcome to sit or stand during the duration of the performance. Bathrooms: There is an ADA accessible bathroom adjacent to the basement space. Wayfinding instructions / directions will be visible throughout the space. Duration: The program run-time is about 1 hour and 15 minutes total. Exits:

ONGOING

inseparable assembly Wendy’s Subway Reading Room

Wendy’s Subway presents inseparable assembly, a reading room that invites shared study, reflection, and gathering. Envisioning the reading room as a space of social choreography, inseparable assembly iterates across a selection of titles centering performative, improvisational, and pedagogical practices; a reader of citations and fragments assembled through self-guided movement; and an offering of prompts for writing and annotation. Inseparable assembly marks time on Friday evening, through an After Hours film screening program; and a Saturday session of writing and reading in tempo.

Domestic Anarchism: zona de juego Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen

A place for drift and contact, Domestic Anarchism: zona de juego is open before, during and after Domestic Anarchism: bailes. An invitation for children and adults to cohabit in the material and immaterial architectures of a performance. Large scale window paintings as reversed coloring books, aluminium clits as toys and tools, a hyphae house drawn with flowers on the floor, (mother) tongues carved in soap, erotic booklets and passing scores.

The materials and practices in Domestic Anarchism: zona de juego have been made in a series of collaborations with HaYoung, Alissa Šnaider, Paolo Gile, Emma Daniel, Lisa Schåman, Luca Soudant, Kexin Hao and Lauren Bakst.

Montez Press Radio

In partnership with Montez Press Radio, an experimental broadcasting and performance platform, The School for Temporary Liveness Vol. 4 at The Kitchen streams live on July 10–12. Montez Press Radio is as much a radio broadcast as it is a reflection of particular moments in time. The broadcast will go live from the start to the end of each program day, as an ongoing auditory document of STL Vol. 4.

PARTICIPANTS

Bilna'es is an adisciplinary platform that seeks to find new models for artists to redistribute resources and support one another in the production and circulation of work. It functions as a publishing space with releases ranging from music to video games, web projects, publications, performances, installations, and other yet-to-be-developed forms.

nora chipaumire was born in 1965 in what was then known as Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe). She is a product of colonial education for black native Africans – known as group B schooling. She studied law at the University of Zimbabwe and dance at Mills College in Oakland, California. As African knowledge acquisition does not come with baccalaureates it is impossible to quantify what the African body holds. chipaumire acknowledges these knowledges in addition to the western forms branded into her.

Denise Ferreira da Silva is an artist and philosopher. She is the Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities and Co-Director of the Critical Racial & Anti-Colonial Study Co-Laboratory at New York University and adjunct professor at the Monash University School of Art, Architecture, and Design (Australia). Her artistic and academic work reflect and speculate on themes and questions crucial to contemporary philosophy, aesthetics, political theory, black thought, feminist thought, and historical materialism. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), The Impagavel Divide (Workshop of Political Imagination and Living Commons, 2019), Unpayable Debt (Stenberg / MIT Press, 2022) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). Her artwork includes the films Serpent Rain (2016), 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018), Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum (2020) and Ancestral Claims/Ancestral Clouds (2023) in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational artistic practices Poethical Readings and Sensing Salon, in collaboration with Valentina Desideri. She has performed shows and lectures in important artistic spaces, such as the Pompidou Centre (Paris), Whitechapel Gallery (London), MASP (São Paulo), Guggenheim (New York) and MoMa (New York). She also wrote and created for publications for major art events (Liverpool Biennale, 2017; São Paulo Biennale, 2016; 2023 Venice Biennale, 2017 and Documenta 14, São Paulo Biennale, 2023) and published in art spaces such as Canadian Art, Texte Zur Kunst and E-Flux.

Juliana Huxtable is a writer, artist and musician living and working Between New York and Berlin. She has had solo exhibitions at Reena Spaulings, New York, Project Native Informant, in London, and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. Her work has been exhibited and collected at The Guggenheim, The New Museum, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and The ICA London. Her forthcoming poetry collection will be published with Wonder Press in 2025. Her first collection of texts, Mucus In my Pineal Gland, was co-published by Wonder Press and Capricious in 2017, and she co-wrote Life: A Novel with Hannah Black, which was published in 2018 with Buchhandlung Walther König.

Darrell Jones is a performer, educator, researcher, and choreographer. He has performed extensively across the United States and globally, in all kinds of venues, including Links Hall in Chicago, Danspace Project, Dance Box – Kobe, Japan, and the Venice Biennale. He maintains long-term collaborative relationships with Bebe Miller Company and Ralph Lemon. Additional foundational experiences have included working with Min Tanaka, Ronald K. Brown, Kokuma Dance Theatre (Birmingham, UK), and Urban Bush Women. Jones is a two-time Bessie Award recipient and has received grants and awards including the 3Arts Award, Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the MAP Fund and a Walder Foundation Platform Award. He is a tenured faculty member at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where he teaches classes in physical practice, performance, and improvisational techniques. He holds an MFA in Dance from Florida State University.

Julie Tolentino (b. 1964, San Francisco; lives and works in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree) led queer club spaces, including Clit Club, Tattooed Love Child, and Dagger, and was a member of ACT UP New York, Art Positive, and the House of Color collective. Exhibitions and performances have been held at SPACES, Cleveland (2024); Brown University, Providence (2024); Commonwealth and Council (2024, 2019, 2013); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2022); Aspen Art Museum (2020); Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York (2020); Performance Space New York (2019); Participant Inc, New York (2019, 2005); The Kitchen, New York (2019, 2001); EFA Project Space, New York (2019); 6th Annual Thessaloniki Biennale (2018); The Lab, San Francisco (2018); and New Museum, New York (2013), Performa, New York (2013, 2005). Tolentino is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2025), Foundation for Contemporary Art Creative Research Grant (2025), MacDowell Fellowship (2026), Joyce Foundation Award (2023), Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts Grant (2022), Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2021), Queer|Art|Prize for Sustained Achievement (2020), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Performance Award (2019), Fulcrum Arts Artist Honor (2019), Pieter Performance Dancemakers Grant (2018), Art Matters Foundation Award (2015, 2010), and CHIME Mentorship Award with J. Kidd (2012) and Doran George (2010). Tolentino has participated in residencies at Herb Alpert/Ucross (2021); MacDowell (2020); BOFFO, Fire Island (2018); Hope Mohr Bridge Project Community Engagement (2017-18); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2013-14); and PACT Zollverein, Essen (2012). Tolentino received an MFA from University of California, Riverside (2020) and is Faculty and Program Co-Director of the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts.

Wendy’s Subway is a reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. We support emerging artists and writers in making experimental, urgent work and create alternative modes for learning and thinking in community. Wendy’s Subway is dedicated to encouraging creative, critical, and discursive engagement with arts and literature. inseparable assembly is curated by Marian Chudnovsky, Juwon Jun, and Rachel Valinsky for Wendy’s Subway. After Hours Film School is a semi-monthly workshop and screening series devoted to new currents in cinematic practice. The series invites moving-image makers to share new work or work-in-progress and engage around methodology, production, and key questions animating their work. After Hours is organized by Kirsten Gill and Rachel Valinsky.

Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen are artistic collaborators and the main caretakers of Penélope (b. 2021). Andrea and Adriano work through dance as an expanded set of practices and tools for knowledge exchange that can be used to sense and make sense with the audience. Their work questions the distribution of care and solidarity beyond ‘the family’ and considers how such a distribution could inform dance practice. They were fellows at the Jan van Eyck Academie 2023-2024, and have presented their work across Europe. Their separate artistic practices are still present, but since the last three years, it’s all a bit tangled up.

TEAM

Lauren Bakst (Curator) dreamt up the School for Temporary Liveness in Philadelphia with Donna Faye Burchfield in 2018. Since then she has been iterating and devising the School across various contexts with friends and accomplices. Lauren is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her dissertation project considers the rendering of lesbian sex and erotics in minor archives of performance, film, and scenes of social life from the 1970s to the present. She was a 2023-24 Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellow in Lesbian Studies at Yale University. Lauren’s article, “Erotic City: Slipping into the Clit Club’s Lesbian Surround,” is forthcoming in a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review. Her performance works have been presented by The Kitchen, Danspace Project, the Chocolate Factory, Pioneer Works, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, SculptureCenter, and the Drawing Center, among other spaces. Lauren’s chapbook, more problems with form or, desire notes or, still woman, was published by Wendy's Subway. She regularly teaches seminars in dance and performance studies, contemporary art, and gender & sexuality studies and has previously taught at The Cooper Union, University of the Arts, University of Pennsylvania, and Rutgers University. Lauren is devoted to the lifeworlds of experimental performance.

Sarai Frazier (Lighting Supervisor), @s.arai__ is a Bessie nominated lighting designer, technical producer, and artist born and raised in New York City. Her work spans performance art exploring the presence of black, disappearing, and isolated bodies through light. She is currently curating a series of workshops at Performance Space New York for technicians that emphasizes community, collaboration, and professional development, with a particular focus on sharing resources to marginalized communities.

Niall Jones (Curator) is an artist, performer and teacher based in New York City. Niall constructs immersive, liminal sites that attend to sensual, collective registers of fiction, dis/order, dis/placement and in/completeness. And he dances through a constellation of curiosities, obsessions and practices destabilized by performance, sound, text, photography and video.

Maurina Lioce (Stage Manager) has worked in NYC with Half Straddle, Adrienne Truscott, Alex Tatarsky, Sibyl Kempson, Jim Findlay, David Byrne, Andrew Ondrejcak, Mike Iveson, Erin Markey, Suzanne Bocanegra, and Young Jean Lee. She is also the Associate Artistic Director and Stage Manager for Elevator Repair Service Theater Company. She loves working at The Kitchen (most recently with Dance and Process 2024) and is excited to return for this program.

Matthew Lyons (Curator) has organized numerous exhibitions and performance projects at The Kitchen with a wide range of artists since 2005. In 2024, he curated the exhibition Robert Indiana: The Sweet Mystery, an official collateral event of the Venice Biennial. His writing has appeared in Mousse Magazine, Movement Research Performance Journal, and Document Journal, among others.

Devanté Melton (Designer) is a Detroit-born visual artist and set designer living in Brooklyn, New York. This artist transforms spaces into whimsical landscapes. He manipulates objects & organic material to evoke a sense of childlike wonder. Devanté’s work leans towards the fantastical & aims to spark imagination and rekindle the magic of the natural world.

Montez Press Radio is an experimental broadcasting and performance platform founded in 2018, with the goal of fostering greater experimentation and conversation between artists, writers, and thinkers through the medium of radio. This platform invites different corners of the art world to interact with each other in person and on air—a place where media finally meets flesh. Montez Press Radio is drawn to art that exists in the unexpected, the authenticity of sharing without a script, the sounds of ideas in the making, conversation that forgets there’s an audience. All of its in-studio broadcasts are free and open to the public. Montez Press Radio’s archive is an ongoing auditory document of Montez Press Radio’s existence. It is not designed to reflect the ingenuity of postproduction, but rather serves as a catalogue of rough cuts which contain all the small glitches, false starts, and awkward silences that are intrinsic to our process of live recording and running an event space. Montez Press Radio is as much a radio broadcast as it is a reflection of particular moments in time.

David Riley (Production & Exhibitions Manager) is a producer, curator, and multimedia artist who works across video, performance, and installation. At The Kitchen he has overseen exhibitions by Lisa Alvarado and Harmony Holiday, and performances by JJJJJerome Ellis and Joy Guidry. From 2018-2023, he worked at The Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. As producer, he contributed to exhibitions by Morgan Bassichis, Naima Green, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Rashid Johnson, and many others. As curator of performance, he organized the performance residency Test Pattern, which invited artists such as Holland Andrews, Anh Vo, Brontez Purnell, and Moor Mother to use the ICA Auditorium as a TV production studio; and ICA Live, which featured musicians Angel Bat Dawid, Lucrecia Dalt, Nadah El Shazly, and Aja Monet. As a freelance video producer, he has collaborated with a long list of artists, arts organizations, and music labels, including Holly Herndon, Mika Tajima, Mexican Summer, and MOCA TV. He has performed or exhibited at MoMA/PS1, The New Museum, The Museum of Arts and Design, Recess, and Basilica Hudson.

Angelique Rosales Salgado (Assistant Curator) (Ciudad de México, México) is a curator and writer based in New York City. Their curatorial, research, and creative practice is grounded in queer study, and focuses on performance, experimental dance, collective work, and time-based media. Currently they are Assistant Curator at The Kitchen, and have held curatorial positions at Pioneer Works, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Select projects include PROTECT THE PEACE: we, INSURGENT (2024, The Kitchen), JJJJJerome Ellis: Aster of Ceremonies (2024, The Kitchen), Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art (2024-2025, The Kitchen, with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit), Harmony Holiday: BLACK BACKSTAGE (2024, The Kitchen), NIC Kay: The last gasp of the angry yt man (2024, Dia Chelsea), Los Cybrids: La Raza Techno-Crítica (2024, The Kitchen, Video Viewing Room), Matthew Lutz-Kinoy: Filling Station (2023, The Kitchen, Dia:Beacon), Leslie Cuyjet: With Marion (2023, The Kitchen), Christelle Oyiri: OBLIMEMBER (2023, The Kitchen, Video Viewing Room).

Tassja Walker (Production Supervisor) is a cultural worker and organizer born and raised in New York City. They are currently Production Supervisor at The Kitchen, where they work collaboratively with artists to assist in materializing their creative projects into shared works.

Kyla Arsadjaja and Bryant Wells are the graphic design team for STL Vol. 4.