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M U S I C
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Raz Mesinai: Myth of Nations
September 21 and 22 (Wed and Thurs) 8:30pm $10
Composer and instrumentalist Raz Mesinai,
known for his acclaimed recordings under the moniker Badawi,
assembles an all-star ensemble of artists from the far reaches
of hip hop, dub, traditional Middle Eastern, and contemporary
experimental music for his new piece, Myth of Nations. Based
on ancient Sumerian mythology, this genre-defying excursion--featuring
rapper Seraphim, slam poet Celena
Glenn, and instrumentalists Carla Kihlstedt, Shahzad
Ismaily, and Miguel Frasconi, among
others--dissolves sonic boundaries in a musical exploration
of the story of the goddess Inanna's descent into the netherworld.
Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous
support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and The
Aaron Copland Fund for Music.
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D A N C E
Photo Credit: Go |
Beth Gill / Kakuya Ohashi
September 29 and 30 (Thurs and Fri)
8pm $10
Curated by Yasuko Yokoshi
Japanese choreographer Kakuya Ohashi makes
his United States debut with his provocative performance Wish
You Were Here, a deeply unsettling duet exploring the
compulsion and neurosis of Tokyo’s hyper-urban life.
Set to a live sound score by Skank, performers Ohashi and Miu
Miu appear side by side, yet isolated, moving through
separate actions from the pedestrian to the convulsive, creating
a rigorous psycho-sexual landscape.
Architectural in her approach, Brooklyn-based choreographer Beth
Gill explores the tension between stillness and
action through a deliberately stripped-down movement vocabulary.
This new work, wounded giant, uses the minimal
action of seven performers who, propelled by their own
internal momentum, move through the space and naturally
come to rest as they encounter points of resistance.
Dance programs at The Kitchen are made possible with sponsorship
support from Altria Group, Inc. and with generous grants
from The Harkness Foundation for Dance and the Mertz Gilmore
Foundation.
 
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M U S I C / F I L M
Photo: Rigo |
Text of Light
October 6 and 7 (Thurs and Fri) 8:30pm $10
William Hooker, Ulrich Krieger, Alan
Licht, Christian Marclay, and Lee
Ranaldo
Special guest appearances on October 7th by Zeena
Parkins and Marina Rosenfeld.
These evenings feature improvised music by the ensemble Text
of Light performed alongside projected films
by the late experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage,
including his 1974 work from which the band takes its
name. Rather than reacting directly to the otherwise
silent films, the sounds and structures created by the
musicians exist as parallel yet separate events.
Media and film programs at The Kitchen are made possible
with public funds from the New York State Council on the
Arts, a state agency.
Music programs are made possible with generous support from
the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and The Aaron Copland
Fund for Music.
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M U S I C
Photo: Larry Link |
Artist-In-Residence
Imani Uzuri
Her Holy Water: A Black Girl's Rock Opera
(Work-in-progress)
October 14 (Fri) 8pm $8
Imani Uzuri's Kitchen residency culminates
in a presentation and discussion of her latest project.
Featuring a full ambient band with a string quintet and
a sweeping video montage backdrop, this emotionally provocative
rock opera explores the journey from isolation into meditative
stillness that leads to the exuberant triumph of uninhibited
expression. Lyrical and often comedic, this unique concert
experience is told through drum n bass arias, transformational
ballads, and soulful electronica, while incorporating coming-of-age
memories from Uzuri's youth in rural North Carolina and
anecdotes from her nomadic travels around the world. It
is a celebration confirming that even the minutiae of a
Black Girl's Life is epic and universal.
Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with
generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable
Trust and The Aaron Copland Fund for Music.
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E X H I B I T I O N
Dara Friedman, video still from the installation Sunset Island,
2005. Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, NY. |
Dara Friedman Sunset Island
September 15-October 22
Opening reception:
September 15 (Thurs) 6-8pm
Selected by Ali Subotnick
In Dara Friedman’s new video installation,
a woman and a man isolated within two separate screens ask
themselves, and by implication each other, questions about
life’s big issues and small obsessions, ranging from
the philosophical to the tantalizing to the exceedingly mundane.
Volleying dialogue back-and-forth, falling in-and-out of
step, their syncopated exchanges expose the intricate rhythms
of human relationships marked by feelings of desire and repulsion,
insecurity and jealousy, love and anger. "Are we alone?
What will become of us? Did you put gas in the car? What's
that smell? Are you a lot like my mother?" As the short
rapid-fire questions accumulate, implications beneath the
attractive surface of the actors’ faces and surroundings
gradually emerge, suggesting how even the briefest fragment
can reveal underlying assumptions about the roles played
and the views held by the audience.
The Kitchen’s exhibition programs are made possible with
public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts,
a state agency.
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L I T E R A T U R E
Image: Rob Weingart, The Mummy, 2002 |
Readings with Fence
Magazine
October 18 (Tue) 7pm $5
The adventurous nonprofit journal and book publisher Fence curates
an evening of readings by four idiosyncratic and challenging
poets, one established and three emerging, whose new books
are just out. Forrest Gander reads from Eye
against Eye (New Directions) and A Faithful Existence (Shoemaker
and Hoard); Geraldine Kim reads passages
from her cross-genre debut, Povel; Aaron
Kunin reads excerpts from Folding Ruler Star,
his collection of short poems about shame; and Laura
Sims reads from Practice, Restraint,
which was the winner of the 2005 Alberta Prize from Fence
Books.
Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible
with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
and New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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P E R F O R M A N C E
Photo: Superamas |
Superamas
BIG: Episode #2 (Show/Business)
November 2-5 (Wed-Sat) 8:30pm $10
Curated by Mark Russell and presented as part
of the Act French Festival: A
Season of New Theater from France.
The French-Austrian theater collective makes its United
States debut with BIG:Episode #2 (Show/Business).
This darkly humorous piece with live music explores the
seductive superficiality of the relentless barrage of advertising
and media images that pervade our daily lives. By alternating
performed scenes with projected clips from movies, talk
shows, news reports, soap operas, and music videos, Superamas explores
connections between forms of popular entertainment and
the pervasiveness of consumer culture.
Act French is made possible by the Cultural Services
of the French Embassy in the United States, Association
FranÁaise díAction Artistique (AFAA), The Ministry of Culture
and Communication, FACE (French American Cultural Exchange),
Etant donnÈs: French American Fund for the Performing Arts.
Generous support provided by PLAYBILL, The Berlys Foundation,
and the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation.
Act French thanks Bloomberg for its support of the Downtown program.
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N E W M E D I A / P
E R F O R M A N C E
LoVid Photo: Tom Moody |
Transparent Processes
November 9 (Wed) 8pm $8
Curated by Nick Hallett
This evening of live visual music, expanded cinema, and
nouveau psychedelia features work in which sound and image
stem from the same source. Performers include Ray
Sweeten and the collaborative groups LoVid (Tali
Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus), I
Love You (Seth Kirby and Ana
Matronic) and the duo of Sandra Gibson and Luis
Recoder. Avoiding digital technology, these artists
create synesthetic lightshow environments by means of antique
equipment, consumer electronics, and home-made instruments
in ways that make evident the relationship between process
and result.
Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with
generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable
Trust and The Aaron Copland Fund for Music.
Media and film programs are made possible with public funds from the
New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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I T E R A T U R E
Anthony McCall, Long Film for Four Projectors, 1974.
Photo: Hank Graber, 2003 |
Anthony McCall and Branden
W. Joseph
November 12 (Sat)
Noon to 4:30pm: Preview of one of Anthony McCall's most recent "solid
light" installations, You and I, Horizontal - FREE Admission
5pm: Discussion with McCall and Branden
W. Joseph $5
On the occasion of the publication of Anthony McCall:
The Solid Light Films and Related Works by New Art
Trust in conjunction with Northwestern University Press
and Steidl, Anthony McCall discusses
his four-decade-long evolution as an artist with art
historian Branden W. Joseph, whose "Sparring
with the Spectacle," the main text of the book,
is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of McCall's
work. McCall is renowned for his series of "solid
light" films that treat the projection beam as a
sculptural presence. Much less known is the wide range
of art (film, photography, and performance) that McCall
has produced from 1968 to the present in London and New
York. Also included during the discussion will be a rare
showing of McCall's first film, the short and inventively
edited 16mm Landscape for Fire (1972).
Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible
with public funds from the New York State Council on the
Arts, a state agency.
Media and film programs are made possible with public funds from the
New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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P E R F O R M A N C E
Bernar Venet, Performance at the Judson Church Theater
by Martin Krieger: Neutron Emission from Muon Capture,
New York, 1968. Photo: Peter Moore. |
Listen up!
Lecture as Performance
Coco Fusco and Bernar Venet
November 18 (Fri) 7pm $8
Curated by PERFORMA
Presented as part of the PERFORMA 05 Biennial
Since the artist Filippo Tomaso Marinetti created his
Futurist “serate” in 1909, in which he ‘declaimed’ the
Futurist manifesto, many artists have used the lecture
format as a staging device to communicate radical ideas
about art and politics directly to audiences. In Listen
up! Lecture as Performance, PERFORMA responds to the
widespread contemporary interest in transforming the lecture
form into performance. In addition to recreating a live
conceptual art performance by Bernar Venet from
1968, and presenting a new work by Coco Fusco from
2005, the evening presents documentation of art historical
precedents to the use of the lecture as performance by
artists including Joseph Beuys, FT Marinetti, and Kurt
Schwitters.
Venet’s Neutron emission from muon capture in Ca40, which was
first presented at The Judson Church Theater in New York in 1968, will
be re-worked as Astrophysics with High Energy Light. Coco Fusco’s A
Room of One’s Own (2005) is a remarkable window onto the process
of special training sessions for women to learn interrogation techniques.
Bush’s ‘War on Terror’ leads Fusco to a training camp where she and five
women undergo a course in interrogation, conducted by former U.S. military
officers.
Curated by PERFORMA and presented as part of the PERFORMA05 Biennial.
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D A N C E
Photo: Noah Hilsenrad |
John Jasperse
Prone
December 2 and 3 (Fri and Sat) 8pm
December 6-10 and 13-17
Tuesdays and Wednesdays 8pm
Thursdays-Saturdays 7pm and 9pm
Extremely Limited Seating $15
Award-winning choreographer John Jasperse returns
to The Kitchen with a new work for three dancers with a
live score by Zeena Parkins. In Prone,
Jasperse investigates the mechanics of perception, with
the audience alternating between lying on the floor amid
the dancers and sitting in chairs surrounding the space.
Vibrations, shadows, obstructed views, and peripheral images
combine to create an unexpected dialogue among sound, movement,
sight, and site. Featuring performers Luciana Achugar, Levi
Gonzalez, and Eleanor Hullihan.
A discussion will follow the performance on December 7th.
Prone is co-commissioned by The Kitchen, The
International Dance Festival Ireland, and TanzQuartier
Wien.
Prone is supported in part by funding from the
American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program, the
Multi-Arts Production Fund, the National Dance Project
of the New England Foundation for the Arts, the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Meet The Composers Fund, and
the Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation.
Dance programs at The Kitchen are made possible with sponsorship support
from Altria Group, Inc. and with generous grants from The Harkness Foundation
for Dance and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
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E X H I B I T I O N
Edgar Arceneaux, detail of The Immeasurable Equation,
2004. Graphite, tape, colored paper on frosted vellum.
Collection of Demetrio Kerrison, Newport Coast, CA. Courtesy
of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.
Photo: Gene Ogami |
Edgar Arceneaux
Borrowed Sun
November 5-December 17
Curated by Debra Singer
Opening reception: November 5 (Sat) 6-8pm
Exhibition Hours: Tue-Sat, 12-6pm
Free Admission
This exhibition by the Los Angeles-based artist Edgar
Arceneaux incorporates slide projection, large-scale
drawings, sculpture, and 16mm film to create a poetic
network of relationships among the astronomer Galileo,
the jazz musician Sun Ra, and the conceptual artist Sol
LeWitt. Employing a nonlinear logic across diverse cultural
references, with no clear distinctions indicated between
fictional characters and real people, the installation
reflects Arceneaux's interest in the associative processes
of history and memory through unexpected, open-ended
connections among words, places, figures, and ordinary
circumstance.
The Kitchen's exhibition programs are made possible with
public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts,
a state agency.
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