TV Dinner @ The Kitchen
"There is no gravity in television"
Nam June Paik
Getting back to its formative roots in video, The Kitchen launches TV Dinner, a new series inviting groundbreaking artists working in video to show their work and share their thoughts in the informal atmosphere of The Kitchen's second floor theater. The audience meets the artists over television and a vegetarian buffet provided by Chelsea's favorite restaurant, La Lunchonette.
TV Dinner No. 1
Joan Logue: The 30-Second Portraits
October 2 & 3 [Fri & Sat] $15 ($25 with dinner) 6:30 pm
(Reservations required)
Visionary video portraitist Joan Logue kicks off the TV Dinner Series with her witty and provocative commercials on contemporary artists. Find out more about people and less about hamburgers while watching her 30-second spots (started at The Kitchen in 1979) featuring Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Julia Kristeva, Meredith Monk, Claude Simon, and others. More short format videos include portraits of New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Germany.
Chaos (World Premiere)
A Comic Science Fiction Opera
Music by Michael Gordon
Libretto by Matthew Maguire
Directed by Bob McGrath
Preview: October 7-9 [Wed-Fri] 8 pm $15
Opening Night: October 10 [Sat] 8 pm $20
October 14-17* [Wed-Sat] & 21-24 [Wed-Sat] 8 pm $20
"The movement of a butterfly's wing in Beijing can magnify till it sets a Kansas cyclone spiraling."
A journey through the micro cogs of the "Chaos Zone" with the propulsive fury of rock, the lyrical brilliance of free jazz, and the rigor of classical modernism. Chaos is a satiric sci fi opera that stages the battle of two scientists in love fighting against political intrigue as they create a revolution in science. What was thought to be random is revealed to be part of a deeper order that shapes human lives and the path to freedom.
A co-production of The Kitchen, Creation Production Company and Ridge Theater.
* Oct. 17 [Sat]: Followed by informance (dialogue with artists)
ForWord! No. 10
Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page
Reading/Performance
October 20 [Tue] 8 pm $10
Dance as writing and writing as dance. Poet, writer, and lapsed performance artist Elena Alexander, in collaboration with choreographers Douglas Dunn, Marjorie Gamso, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Kenneth King, Yvonne Meier, and Sarah Skaggs, uses the page as a performance space, one specifically informed by the experience of dance.
"Alexander has taken the unique step of asking six choreographers to approach writing, not as an illustration of their respective processes or principles, but as an act in itself"
(Jill Johnston, from the Foreward to Footnotes).
Hybrid No. 18
Kapusta Descending
October 30 & 31 [Fri-Sat] 8 pm $12
A hilarious and scarifying Halloween multi-media event
Walter Kapusta a.k.a. Marc Kehoe, the masked-accordionist-with-an-Eastern-European-twist, journeys through a mythic underworld on a quest for the Golden Pierogie. Featuring underground filmmaker George Kuchar as Pluto, King of the Netherworld; legendary pop singer Marilyn in her musical hit, "Sex Means Nothing When You're Dead;" Walter Kapusta's startling new short; and a tribute to William Castle, King of Hollywood Horror. Rustically rockin' musical stylings provided by rabble-rousers, The Johnson Boys.
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