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The Kitchen High Line Block Party
A neighboorhood street fair presented by The Kitchen and Friends of the High Line

Saturday, September 15, 2007
12-5pm

Rain or Shine, FREE

Kick off the fall season with an afternoon in West Chelsea at The Kitchen’s neighborhood street fair produced in collaboration with Friends of the High Line. Lining our block of West 19th Street will be dozens of artist-led, free activities for the whole family to enjoy, as well as an entertaining mix of live music and unusual performances!

Artists leading activities include Groovehoops, Elia Alba and Aisha Cousins, Johanna Almiron and Rachael Schaffran, Bozidar Brazda, Ernest Concepcion and Ahmed Faheem, Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan, Michael de Feo, Pat Hammond, Pablo Helguera, Nancy Hwang, Byron Kim and Lisa Sigal, Isabelle Lumpkin, Thomas Marquet, Suzi Matthews, Adam Shecter and Joe Winter, Ward Shelly, Shinique Smith, Bec Stupak, Charmaine Wheatley and Jen Mazza, Saya Woolfak and Chris Myers.

The main stage will feature live music and dance performances by DJ Reborn, Matana Roberts & Friends (a saxophonist and her quintet), Hoofers' House Tap Jam Session (in collaboration with The Studio Museum in Harlem) led by Jason Samuels Smith and featuring the Pheeroan akLaff trio, and a performance by the Afro-Latin drum ensemble Ilu Aiye. The fair will also feature affordable food from local vendors including the Treats Truck, Chelsea Thai, Amy’s Bread, Ronnybrook Farms, Cleaver Company, and Calidad Latina.

Visitors can also cool off inside The Kitchen and view the new exhibition Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music, a group exhibition that explores the intersection of drawing and sound through experimental scores by more than thirty composers who relinquish traditional musical notation in favor of their own invented visual systems of pictorial or “graphic” elements.

Friends of the High Line is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and reuse of the High Line, a 1.5-mile-long historic elevated rail structure on the West Side of Manhattan. www.thehighline.org

The Kitchen High Line Block Party is made possible with generous support from Chelsea Market, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Bishopscourt Realty, and with public funds from from New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, the New York City Council, the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

E X H I B I T I O N

Photo: Wadada Leo Smith, Multiamerica (detail)

Between Thought and Sound:
Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music

September 7–October 20, 2007

Opening Reception:
Friday, September 7, 6-8pm

Curated by Alex Waterman, Debra Singer, and Matthew Lyons

Exploring the intersection of drawing and sound, this show includes experimental scores by more than thirty composers who have relinquished traditional musical notation in favor of their own invented visual systems employing graphic or pictorial elements. Their musical compositions take the form of abstract drawings, videos, and digital renderings filled with complex pictograms, evocative mark-making, gestural symbols, and intricate codes of numbers, letters, and color. These highly personal vocabularies are the catalysts for a social process of translation and open-ended interpretation between composer and performer. Among the artists included in the exhibition are: Laura Andel, Robert Ashley, James Beckett, David Behrman, Cathy Berberian, Earle Brown, Cornelius Cardew, Tony Conrad, John Driscoll, Morton Feldman, Jon Gibson, Tom Johnson, Alison Knowles, Joan La Barbara, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, Miya Masaoka, Kaffe Matthews, Meredith Monk, Gordon Mumma, Anthony Jay Ptak, Steve Roden, Marina Rosenfeld, James Saunders, Michael J. Schumacher, Elliott Sharp, Wadada Leo Smith, Yasunao Tone, David Tudor, Stephen Vitiello, and Christian Wolff.

Exhibition Hours:
Tue-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm FREE

This exhibition is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc.

Additional support was provided by the American Center Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner, and the Fifth Floor Foundation. Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The New York State Music Fund, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

           

M U S I C

Either/Or

Friday, September 14, 7pm

Tickets $10

In conjunction with the exhibition Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music, the ensemble Either/Or performs an evening of graphic scores by composers Robert Ashley, Earle Brown, Cornelius Cardew, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff in the intimate setting of the gallery. Performers include Anthony Burr (clarinets), Richard Carrick (percussion), Jennifer Choi (violin), Jane Rigler (flutes), Dave Shively (cimbalom/percussion), and Alex Waterman (cello).

Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The New York State Music Fund, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

     

M U S I C

Photo: Ralph Jones

David Tudor’s Rainforest IV
Realized by Composers Inside Electronics

Performed by John Driscoll, Ian Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, Matt Rogalsky, and Stephen Vitiello

Saturday, September 22   4-9pm*
Sunday, September 23   4-9pm*

Tickets $10

*Please Note: Audience members may come and go at any time throughout the performance.

The pioneering electronic music group Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), which formed around the late composer/performer David Tudor, presents their famed collaborative work Rainforest IV, which was performed at The Kitchen in 1975. This electro-acoustic environment integrates over twenty resonating sound sculptures into an evolving sonic and visual experience. Each composer designs and constructs sculptures which function as instrumental loudspeakers under their control, and each independently produces sound material to reveal the sculptures’ resonant characteristics. Performers include original CIE members John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein, as well as special guests Ian Driscoll, Matt Rogalsky, and Stephen Vitiello.

This event is offered in conjunction with the current exhibition Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music and is presented on the occasion of The Kitchen’s latest CD release, From The Kitchen Archives No.4: Composers Inside Electronics. This CD and other archival recordings in the series can be purchased at The Kitchen or online.

Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The New York State Music Fund, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

     

M U S I C

Photo: Atsuhiro Ito

SOME CATS FROM JAPAN:
Kanta Horio, Atsuhiro Ito, and Fuyuki Yamakawa with special guests Ikue Mori and C. Spencer Yeh

Thursday, September 27  8pm
Friday, September 28  8pm

Tickets $10

Curated by Aki Onda

Using self-made devices and unique electronic instruments to transform digital information into sound, light, and image, Kanta Horio, Atsuhiro Ito, and Fuyuki Yamakawa are three of the most innovative performers from Tokyo’s thriving underground music and sound art scene. Horio uses electromagnets, motors, contact microphones, and video cameras to create unpredictable, low-fi audiovisual effects. Yamakawa pairs an adapted version of traditional “Khoomei” overtone singing with minimalist electric guitar and an oscillating field of lights calibrated to the rhythms of his own heartbeat.  Yamakawa will be joined by special guest Ikue Mori on September 27. Ito generates fierce noise and flickering lights with the “Optron,” an amplified fluorescent tube rigged with microphones that he manipulates like an electric guitar.  Ito will be joined by special guest C. Spencer Yeh on September 28.

This program is made possible with generous support from the Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN program.

Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The New York State Music Fund, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Some Cats from Japan is a part of Turning Japanese, a city-wide celebration commemorating Japan Society’s Centennial.

                

D A N C E

Photo: Yoichi Tsukada

Mika Kurosawa and SKANK:
with special guests Jennifer Monson, Margarita Guergue, and Hahn Rowe

Wednesday, October 3  8pm
Thursday, October 4  8pm

Tickets $12

Curated by Yasuko Yokoshi

A legendary and highly influential presence within the Japanese contemporary dance scene, Mika Kurosawa is known for highly experimental works that combine pared-down movement inspired by the work of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer with elaborate costumes evocative of fairy tales and cabaret performance. Kurosawa will present a new version of her solo dance Romantic Night, never performed in the United States, as well as a new, improvisational work with a live sound score by Japanese experimental musician SKANK (leader of the post-hardcore band MEXI). They will be joined onstage by New York-based dance improvisers Jennifer Monson and Margarita Guergue and multi-instrumentalist Hahn Rowe.

This program is made possible with generous support from Altria Group, Inc., the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

This performance is a part of Turning Japanese, a city-wide celebration commemorating Japan Society’s Centennial.

                     

M U S I C

Photo: Bertrand Provost

alva noto:
a.k.a. Carsten Nicolai

Saturday, October 6  8pm

Tickets $15

The renowned Berlin-based artist Carsten Nicolai, whose minimalist, post-techno music is released under the name alva noto, presents Xerrox vol. 2, an evening of new and recent audio-visual works for solo laptop and video projection. Created from a range of ordinary source material ranging from Muzak to television advertisements, Nicolai compresses, multiplies, and alters this digital information into hypnotic progressions of sonic and visual abstraction.

Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The New York State Music Fund, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

     

M U S I C

Ne(x)tworks

Wednesday, October 10, 8pm

Tickets $10

In the theater, Ne(x)tworks performs graphic scores by composers Joan La Barbara, Cornelius Cardew, Wadada Leo Smith, and Michael J. Schumacher. Featured performers include: Joan La Barbara (voice), Kenji Bunch (viola), Shelley Burgon (harp & electronics), Yves Dharamraj (cello), Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Miguel Frasconi (glass instruments & electronics), Stephen Gosling (piano), Ariana Kim (violin), and Christopher McIntyre (trombone).

Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The New York State Music Fund, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
     

D A N C E

Photo: Ryan McNamara

Sam Kim: dumb dumb bunny

October 18-20 (Thursday - Saturday)  8pm

Tickets $12

Curated by Tere O’Connor

One of the most exciting young mavericks in the dance field to have emerged in recent years, choreographer Sam Kim is celebrated for works that walk the razor’s edge, deftly balancing poignant humor and dark subversion. In her new work performers vibrate and throb in moments of absolute power and perfect failure, finding a way to insist on their presence despite all the handicaps that mute them.

“dumb dumb bunny is a defiant shout out into the world of what we know best—our own names.” —Sam Kim

The show features Michael Helland, Sam Kim, Liz Santoro, Miriam Wolf, and multiple guest performers with lighting design by Michael Stiller and set design by Mimi Lien.>

This program is made possible with generous support from Altria Group, Inc., The Greenwall Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

           

M U S I C

Photo: Marina Rosenfeld, WHITE LINES (video still), 2005-07

Jennifer Choi, Marina Rosenfeld, Alex Waterman, and special guests

Saturday, October 20, 6pm

Tickets $10

In the intimate setting of the gallery, Jennifer Choi, Marina Rosenfeld, Alex Waterman, and special guests, including Alison Knowles, perform graphic scores by Rosenfeld, Cornelius Cardew, and others.

Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The New York State Music Fund, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

     

L I T E R A T U R E

Literary Death Match
An Evening With Opium magazine

Tuesday, October 23 7pm
Tickets: $7

In conjunction with the release of its fifth issue, Opium magazine hosts one of its “literary death matches,” a humorously competitive event featuring a series of short readings by authors Susan Buttenwieser, Thomas Cooper, Pedro Ponce, and Giancarlo Trapano. Guest star judges Ben Greenman, Amanda Stern, and Joshua Furst discuss their favorites in terms of literary merit, performance, and everything in between. Founded by Todd Zuniga and Elizabeth Koch, Opium is a literary humor publication that features fiction, poetry, cartoons, odd games, and quirky art. Started online in 2001, the print magazine has been published semi-annually since August 2005. For more information, visit www.opiummagazine.com <http://www.opiummagazine.com/> .

Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

           

M U S I C

Photo: Helmut Lackinger

Min Xiao-Fen / Guillermo E. Brown

Thursday, October 25, 8pm
Friday, October 26, 8pm

Tickets $10

Curated by Rashida Bumbray

Pipa virtuoso and composer Min Xiao-Fen returns to The Kitchen with a new commissioned work, Return of the Dragon, that interweaves diverse musical influences including Chinese folk music, American jazz, and bluegrass. The performance features Xiao-Fen (pipa and vocals), Okkyung Lee (cello), and Satoshi Takeishi (percussion and electronics).

Opening the evenings is Guillermo E. Brown, who tests the boundaries of free jazz and hip hop in Syrup, a new collection of electro-acoustic sonic explorations influenced by Afro-Latin and Caribbean music. Syrup features Brown on drums, vocals, and electronics, Shoko Nagai (piano, keyboard, and electronics), and a guest percussionist.

This program is made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Greenwall Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The New York State Music Fund, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

     

E X H I B I T I O N

Photo: Jose Alvarez

Jose Alvarez: The Visitors

November 1–December 22, 2007

Opening Reception:
Thursday, November 1, 6-8pm

Curated by Debra Singer

A painter, performance artist, and video maker, Jose Alvarez is known for his charismatic performances in which he “channeled” the 2,000-year-old spirit of the shaman Carlos, in front of live audiences and in media broadcasts across the globe in the United States, China, Australia, Europe, and South America. For his first New York solo exhibition, he presents a powerful combination of newly created videos, paintings, works-on-paper, and photography that continues his exploration of the complex intersection of mysticism, science, spirituality, and the construction of belief systems. Drawing on his long-standing dialogue with James Randi, the famous magician and renowned challenger of paranormal phenomena, and on his own recent visits to Houston’s NASA Space Flight Center and to Australia’s Parkes Observatory telescope, Alvarez explores how the unfolding of psychic hoaxes, the perceived supernatural energy of charmed objects, and the mysterious quests underlying space exploration all connect to the strong human desire for knowledge and transformation.

Exhibition Hours:
Tue-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm FREE

This exhibition is made possible with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Gavlak, West Palm Beach; and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

           

M U S I C / F I L M

Photo: Andrew Lampert

Okkyung Lee and Andrew Lampert

Friday, November 9, 8pm
Saturday, November 10, 8pm

Tickets $10

New York-based cellist and composer Okkyung Lee’s music combines the intensity of free improvisation and noise with more fragile and intricate sound structures. For these concerts, Lee teams up with filmmaker Andrew Lampert to premiere a new commissioned work that generates a complex environment of sound and image. Lee’s new music composition -- performed by Lee (cello), Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Trevor Dunn (bass), and Miguel Frasconi (glass instruments and electronics) -- is paired with Lampert’s signature blend of newly shot film, recycled footage, imageless projections, and distinctive live cinema techniques involving multiple projectors, props, and texts.

This program is made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Greenwall Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The New York State Music Fund, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

     

L I T E R A T U R E

An evening with Esopus

Tuesday, November 13 7pm
Tickets: $7

In conjunction with the release of its ninth issue, the semi-annual cultural journal Esopus hosts an evening of reading, screenings, and live music by recent contributing artists. Actor and director Tom Gilroy will read a screenplay by the late actor and film editor Jim Lyons titled A Short Film about Andy Warhol; the Brooklyn-based musical duo High Places (Mary Pearson and Robert Barber) will perform a short set of music including original material inspired by the dreams of an Esopus subscriber; and, in addition, the rare 1991 video Sisyphus by conceptual artist Kay Rosen and the short film The Skywalk is Gone by Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-Liang will be screened. For more information about the magazine, please visit www.esopusmag.com.

Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

           

P E R F O R M A N C E

Photo: Aïda Ruilova

Aïda Ruilova: The Silver Globe
featuring Caitlin Cook, Dan Seward, and Ian Vanek

Friday, November 16, 8pm
Saturday, November 17, 8pm

Tickets $10

Curated by Debra Singer

Visual artist Aďda Ruilova intermixes original and appropriated video imagery with live music and movement in this commissioned performance that uses as a point of departure Andrzej Zulawski’s film The Silver Globe -- a controversial Polish science fiction movie from the 1970s about a failed mission to the moon that subsequently spawns a new primitive society.

This program is made possible with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional support has been provided by The PERFORMA Commission Fund.

This event is part of PERFORMA 07, the second biennial of new visual art performance that will take place across New York City from November 1-20, 2007.

            

P A N E L

Photo: Richard Prince, Untitled (couple), 1977, Ektacolor photograph (detail). Courtesy Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.

Re-Take:
A Panel on Art and Appropriation
featuring Michael Newman, Judith Barry, Sarah Charlesworth, and others

Organized by Afterall

Tuesday, November 27 7pm
Tickets: $7

This panel discussion examines the use of appropriation in contemporary art, considering the various approaches to appropriation adopted by three different generations of artists spanning the 1970s to today. The panel will be moderated by art historian and writer Michael Newman, the author of Richard Prince: Untitled (couple) recently published by Afterall Books, and he will be accompanied by artists Judith Barry, Sarah Charlesworth, and others.

Afterall is a non-profit research and publishing organization, supported by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London and California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, that publishes a contemporary art journal and a series of books. For more information, please visit www.afterall.org

Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

           

D A N C E

Photo: Barbara Hansen

Dance and Process: Kathryn Sanders, Noemi Segarra, and Lise Serrell

Friday, November 30, 8pm
Saturday, December 1, 8pm

Tickets $10

Curated by Dean Moss

The culmination of an extended group process of sharing work and receiving structured feedback, this evening features the three new works by choreographers Kathryn Sanders, Noemí Segarra, and Lise Serrell.

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Choreography: Kathryn Sanders
Performers: Serena Jost, Joanna Kotze, Ryutaro Mishima
Music: Serena Jost

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Concept and performance: Noemí Segarra

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Custom-crafted and performed by: Lise and Becky Serrell

This program is made possible with generous support from Altria Group, Inc., The Greenwall Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

           

T H E A T E R / D A N C E

Photo (Gordon): Andrew Eccles

Uncivil Wars:
Collaborating with Brecht & Eisler

Edited, directed, and choreographed by David Gordon

December 13–15 (Thursday-Saturday), 8pm
December 19–22 (Wednesday-Saturday), 8pm

Tickets $15

Based on The Roundheads and the Pointheads by Bertolt Brecht as translated by Michael Feingold

Music: Hanns Eisler / Media Direction: Dean Moss / Music Direction: Gina Leishman / Light: Jennifer Tipton

Tobacconist, Abbess, Mrs. Lopez, Lawyer: *Norma Fire / Vice Viceroy, Hat Knocker, Lopez: John Kelly / Callas, Hat Knocker, Nun: *Derek Lucci / Moving Man: Dean Moss / Madam, Mother Superior: *Estelle Parsons / Nana, Mrs. Callas, Isabella: *Autumn Dornfeld / Viceroy, Slumlord, De Guzman: *Robert LaVelle / Bertolt Brecht, Judge: *Valda Setterfield

Uncivil Wars is a new dance-theater work developed with material borrowed from Brecht’s treatises on playwriting and from his play The Roundheads and the Pointheads, as well as Eisler’s thoughts on composing for the theater. Gordon explores implications of readdressing historical works in the context of our present moment and considers racial, religious, linguistic and geographical divisions resulting in war.

Produced by Alyce Dissette

*appearing courtesy of Actor’s Equity Association

This production is co-commissioned by The Kitchen and the Walker Art Center, and is made possible, in part, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, NYSCA Dance Program, Cornell University, The Lila Wallace Theater Fund, and The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

The Kitchen’s presentation is made possible with generous support from Altria Group, Inc., The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.