L E C T U R E - P E R F O R M A N C E
Installation View Matthew Ritchie
“We Want to See Some Light”
Portikus, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany,
July 9 – August 21, 2005.
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Matthew Ritchie
Thursday, July 21 at 7pm - Free
Matthew Ritchie’s monumental wall drawings, expansive sculptural
installations and exquisite digital animations tell a complex imaginary
history of the universe. At The Kitchen, Ritchie will present a
performance-based lecture about his work, in which actors will
be silently cued to read texts written by the artist while he delivers
a lecture. In a rare and experimental performance, which he calls “half
wizard of oz, half Rod Steiger”, he will simultaneously process
both live sound feed and live video projected onto multiple screens.
Ritchie was born in 1964 in London, England. He attended Boston
University in 1982 and received his BFA from Camberwell School
of Art, London, in 1986. His recent solo exhibition Matthew Ritchie:
Proposition: Player organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston, recently completed a tour at the Massachusetts Museum
of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA. Ritchie was also featured
in the 1997 Whitney Biennial. He lives and works in New York City.
Now in its seventh season, The Kitchen’s Sidney Kahn Summer
Institute 2005, an intensive three-week laboratory for college-aged
and graduate students, reflects the vision of its first invited
Artistic Director, Ong Keng Sen, who addresses how traditional
performance strategies can blend with cutting edge new media to
create artistic forms reflecting today’s dynamic global culture.
The focus is the powerful relationships between ancient technologies,
dramaturgy, and game. The 2005 Institute will also feature a public
performance by Mariko Mori on Friday, July 29th at 7pm.
The Kitchen’s 7th Annual Sidney Kahn Summer Institute is
made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for
the Arts and with the generosity of its founding sponsor, Elizabeth
Kahn Ingleby. Additional support has been provided by the Asian
Cultural Council and the Sidney Kahn Family Foundation. Special
thanks to Technology Sponsor, TEKSERVE, and to Media Lab Sponsor,
Parsons School of Design, Graduate Department of Design and Technology.
   
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P E R F O R M A N C E
Nirvana, 1997
3D video installation
Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo and Deitch Projects, New
York
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Mariko Mori
Friday, July 29 at 7pm - FREE
Mariko Mori, born in Tokyo in 1967, produces large-scale photographs
and video installations that present futuristic scenes utilizing
East Asian spiritual thought to express optimism for the new millennium.
At The Kitchen, Mori will perform Rei-okuri, her first performance
in New York City since her retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum
of Art in 1999. Based on a Jomon period (13,000-12,000 B.C to 240-230
B.C.) ritual in which villagers formed circular spaces to honor
their ancestors, believing that they would return as spirits, rei-okuri
is translated as “ceremony of the transcendence.” The
performance will feature Mori wearing a replica of a Jomon-period
style clay mask from the Aso site, symbolizing the spirit of her
Jomon-period ancestors. Utilizing an ancient tradition in a contemporary
setting, Mori creates a space in which to connect the past and
the future.
Some of Mori's recent works include Wave UFO, which was exhibited
in Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, The Sculpture Park and by Public
Art Fund, NYC, and is in the 2005 Venice Biennale; and Transcircle,
which is inspired by the Neolithic Age.
Now In its seventh season, The Kitchen’s Sidney Kahn Summer
Institute 2005, an intensive three-week laboratory for college-aged
and graduate students, reflects the vision of its first invited
Artistic Director, Ong Keng Sen, who addresses how traditional
performance strategies can blend with cutting edge new media to
create artistic forms reflecting today’s dynamic global culture.
The focus is the powerful relationships between ancient technologies,
dramaturgy, and game. The 2005 Institute will also feature a public
lecture-performance by Matthew Ritchie on Thursday, July 21st at
7pm.
The Kitchen’s 7th Annual Sidney Kahn Summer Institute is
made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for
the Arts and with the generosity of its founding sponsor, Elizabeth
Kahn Ingleby. Additional support has been provided by the Asian
Cultural Council and the Sidney Kahn Family Foundation. Special
thanks to Technology Sponsor, TEKSERVE, and to Media Lab Sponsor,
Parsons School of Design, Graduate Department of Design and Technology.
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M U S I C
Video still from the Kitchen House Blend performance May 22,
2004. Depicted left to right are: Jennifer Choi, Okkyung Lee,
and Kevin Ray.
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Kitchen House Blend Finale:
Music by Kitty Brazelton, Lee Hyla, and Matthew Shipp
June 25th (Sat) 8pm $10
In a spectacular grand finale performance, The Kitchen’s
ten-piece resident ensemble will revisit three highlights from
the band’s repertoire of cutting-edge commissioned works,
fusing rugged experimentation with cross-cultural exploration from
some of today’s most creative musical minds. This all-star
evening will feature circles by avant-jazz pianist Matthew
Shipp, Lee Hyla’s richly textured composition Zurek and Kitty
Brazelton’s dynamic Consider the Carving Knife,
performed by an ensemble of extraordinary musicians from the worlds
of jazz, new music, and rock.
Curated by Christopher McIntyre
The musicians include Jennifer Choi (violin), Okkyung
Lee (cello), JD Parran (various reeds), Rudresh
Mahanthappa (alto saxophone), Russ Johnson (trumpet), Curtis
Hasselbring (trombone), Nicki Parrot (bass), Tony
Lewis (drums), Jim Pugliese (percussion), and Kathleen
Supové (piano). The conductor for Matthew Shipp's
piece is Will Connell.
Kitchen House Blend is made possible with public funds from the
New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous
support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Aaron
Copland Fund for Music and the Virgil Thomson Foundation. 
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N E W M E D I A
Matthew Buckingham and Joachim Koester, video still depicting
squatters in Christiania, Copenhagen, circa 1971, from the installation
Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State, 2001.
Photograph courtesy of the Royal Library, Copenhagen.
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Matthew Buckingham/Joachim Koester
Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State
April 26-June 18, 2005
Opening: April 26 (Tue) 6-8pm;
Exhibition Hours: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 12-6
Curated by Debra Singer
Past and present life in the anarchistic “free city” of
Christiania in Copenhagen, Denmark, is the subject of this five-channel
video installation by Matthew Buckingham and Joachim
Koester. In 1971 Danish housing activists broke through the
fences of an abandoned seventeenth-century military base, founding
what is now one of the largest anarchistic communities in the
world. The work investigates the contrasting power relations
and vivid social forces of this environment to unravel the assumptions
and arbitrary events that make up its history. Each of the projections
follows a separate thematic line through the daily excursions
of the fictional protagonist Sandra, an outsider living in Christiania.
Idiosyncratic facts and historical data are interwoven with the
unpredictable and subjective flow of memories, offering multiple
perspectives on this community’s originating utopian ideals
and the consequences of “living outside the law” as
a form of protest.
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 E C T U R E
Open City #12 cover, photograph by Miranda Lichtenstein
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Open City Presents
June 15th (Wed) 7pm $5
Curated by Open City editor Joanna Yas
Open City, a literary magazine and book publisher acclaimed
by the Village Voice for its “athletic blend of hipster
glamour and highbrow esoterica,” presents an evening of readings
and music. Thomas Beller reads from his new essay collection, How
to Be a Man; fiction writer Rachel Sherman reads her
story from the new issue; and an actor reads a story by Scott
Smith, (screenwriter, A Simple Plan). Mighty Flashlight (aka
Mike Fellows, formerly of the legendary Rites of Spring),
plays hushed and surreal future folk.
Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible with public
funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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L E C T U R E
photo: Oscar Rejlander of himself demonstrating the physical
similarities between laughing and crying, ca. 1870s.
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Laughing Matters: A Multimedia Evening with Philosopher
Simon Critchley, artist Luke Murphy, and Samuel Beckett ’s
Film
June 8th (Wed) 7pm $5
Organized by Cabinet magazine
Laughing is easy, but understanding why we do it proves to be
more difficult. In conjunction with its new issue on "laughter," Cabinet
magazine organizes a multimedia evening exploring the theme. To
be featured is a rare screening of Samuel Beckett's Film (1965),
a deeply unfunny, short film starring Buster Keaton, which will
be followed by a talk by philosopher Simon Critchley, who
discusses this Beckett work in relationship to the three traditional
theories of humor. Artist Luke Murphy will also presents
his Powerpoint graphs that clarify once and for all the relationship
between laughter and other emotional states.
For more information about Cabinet, a quarterly non-profit arts
and culture magazine, go to www.cabinetmagazine.org.
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N E W M E D I A
photo: Sowon Kwon, animation still from sonogong2, 2004
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Sowon Kwon
Something New
Opening: Friday, March 4, 6-8 pm
Exhibition Hours: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 12-6 March 4 - April 15
Artist Talk: Thursday March 17, 6pm Free
Curated by Christina Yang
Since the early 90’s, New York-based artist Sowon
Kwon’s sculptural and video installations have explored
physical interiors as psychological spaces. Ranging from the
spectacular to the intimate, these animation-based works examine
relationships between collective and personal memory, spectatorship
and desire, and the formation of identity. Included in the
exhibition are Average Female (Perfect), a two-channel
video installation overlaying animated line drawings of the “average” female
figure onto “perfect” Olympic performances; Calendar,
comprised of multiple loops showing the repetitive, futile,
and at times humorous, actions of “un-average pin-ups”;
and Sonogong 2, a work combining references to iconic
1970s performance videos with imagery of urban commuters and
passersby.
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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M U S I C
photo: Benton-C Bainbridge
John King: Analía Couceyro and Carla Filipcic Holm in John
King’s La Belle Captive at Teatro Colón (CETC), 2003
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John King
La Belle Captive (U.S. Premiere)
January 20-22 (Thu-Sat) 8pm $15
Composed and directed by John King
Performers: Analía Couceyro, Carla Filipcic Holm
Live electronic music: John King
Live video: Benton-C Bainbridge
Set and lighting design: Minou Maguna
Composer/guitarist John King, critically acclaimed for
his buoyant, post-Hendrix, art-funk scores, creates a compelling
meditation on the dynamics of power with his experimental, electronic
opera, La Belle Captive. Drawing from texts by Alain Robbe-Grillet
(a pioneer of the 1950s French literary movement, le nouveau
roman) and poems by women imprisoned during Argentina’s
1970s military dictatorship, the work exposes multiple plots
with a singular focus: the complex relationship between captor
and captive. The work’s Buenos Aires premiere was praised
for its “striking aesthetic and expressive richness” (La
Nacion, Argentina).
Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible
with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust,
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Virgil Thomson Foundation.
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M U S I C / V I D E O
photo credit: Steve Horrowitz and David Shire
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West Goes East - CalArts at The Kitchen
January 26-29 (Wed-Sat) 8pm
$50 festival pass / $15 single performance
From gamelan and Mozart to human sculpture and digital dance, West
Goes East CalArts at the Kitchen presents the astonishing
diversity of California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) alumni
based in the New York metro area. This four evening event features
23 artists, more than 100 performers, and includes 8 world
premiers. Special guests include Mort Subotnick, electronic
music pioneer, and legendary film composer David Shire.
It is curated by Shem Guibbory in consultation with Dan
Joseph and former Kitchen Music Curator John King.
The January 29 performance will be preceeded by a discussion
with David Shire, moderated by WNYC's David Garland.
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D I S C U S S I O N
photo: Steve Rowell
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Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane
February 5 (Sat) 5pm $5
Co-organized with The Institute for Figuring and Cabinet Magazine
Cornell University mathematicians David Henderson and Daina
Taimina talk about their discovery of crocheted models of “hyperbolic
space”, a geometric form that is found in the crenellation
of lettuce leaves, the anatomy of sea slugs, and the shape of
the physical cosmos.
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V I D E O / M U S I C / E X H I B I T I O N
photo: Wynne Greenwood and Fawn Krieger, composite digital print,
2004
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Tracy + the Plastics
in collaboration with Fawn Krieger
ROOM
Performances: February 10th (Thu) 8pm,
February 11th and 12th (Fri and Sat) 8pm and 10pm $12
Exhibition Hours: February 7-12 (Mon-Sat) 12-6pm Free
ROOM creates a space for us all to inhabit. Wynne
Greenwood and Fawn Krieger build a utopian living
room out of wood, foam, cheap carpet, and video projections that
envisions new ideas about community and home. An immersive video
environment during the day, the installation serves as a stage
in the evening for the art punk band Tracy + the Plastics.
Greenwood assumes the role of each band member, performing live
as Tracy, with Nikki and Cola present as video projections. Exploring
notions of identity and communication, the band hangs out, re-imagining
1970s feminist consciousness-raising groups and questioning the
present state of radical feminism.
ROOM was commissioned by The Kitchen.
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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P E R F O R M A N C E
photo: DJ Excess
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Bill Shannon
Sketchy
February 17-19 (Thu-Sat) 8pm
$15
Co-presented with Downtown Arts Projects
Created by Bill Shannon in collaboration with dancers Danny
InFamous, Cyclone, Mike Stylez, Erika Sato and WildChild
Musical Composition by Andre Owens
DJ sound design and mixing by DJ Excess
Video concept by Bill Shannon
Video mixing and Lighting design by David Szlasa
Costume Design Erika Sato
Renowned in the underground hip-hop and club-dance scenes as "CrutchMaster," Bill
Shannon has invented a unique and vibrant dance technique. With
his new production Sketchy, the multidisciplinary artist
joins forces with five performers to create a living documentary
of street-inspired movement, including breaking, popping, housing,
and free styling. Sketchy features highly complex maneuvers
or "trick moves," that are then examined through the
interactive use of live video projections, offering a behind-the-scenes
look at the risk involved when dancers push themselves beyond
their known limits.
Support for Sketchy has been provided by the National
Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project of the New England
Foundation for the Arts, and Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation.
Bill Shannon's Kitchen season is generously supported by the
makers of Tylenol.
Dance programs at The Kitchen are made possible with sponsorship
support from Altria Group, Inc. and with generous grants from
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P A N E L D I S C U S S I O N
Cover of I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol
Interviews (Carroll & Graf, 2004)
Cover photo: Edo Bertoglio
Cover design: Tom McKeveny
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Interviewing Andy: A Panel Discussion on Andy Warhol
March 1(Tue) 7pm $8
Moderator: Kenneth Goldsmith
Panelists: Billy Name, Reva Wolf, Victor Bockris,
and Gretchen Berg
Moderated by Kenneth Goldsmith, editor of I’ll Be Your
Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews (Carroll & Graf,
2004), this panel brings together scholars, biographers, and
distinguished Factory alumni to discuss how Warhol’s conversations
and physical presence reflected and influenced his art, thinking,
and public image.
Interviewing Andy: A Panel Discussion on Andy Warhol is made
possible with generous support from Sotheby’s.
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F A M I L Y E V E N T
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Dance Improv Game Show
Saturday, March 5th 2pm, $8
Contestants: Sheila Anozier, Peter Sciscioli, Misra
Walker, and Perry Yung
Host: Treva Offutt
Whose move is it anyway? Now in its fourth season, this ever-popular
event for the whole family takes the form of a non-competitive
game show in which you shape the dance. After a group warm-up
and a contestant showcase, the audience suggests scenarios for
volunteers and guest stars to perform on the spot. So, how would
a hippo dance in an overcrowded bathtub? Come find out!
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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P E R F O R M A N C E
Marriage photo by: Sofía Hernández Chong
Cuy
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LTTR
Let ’s take the role
March 22 (Tue) 8pm $8
The annual art journal, LTTR presents performances and presentations
by queer and feminist artists, writers, and cultural producers
curated by editors Ginger Takahashi, K8 Hardy,
and Emily Roysdon. The evening includes the Chicago performance
duo Marriage, Nao Bustamante and Megan Palaima among
others.
Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible with public
funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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N E W M E D I A
photo: Sowon Kwon, animation still from sonogong2, 2004
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Sowon Kwon
Something New
Opening: Friday, March 4, 6-8 pm
Exhibition Hours: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 12-6
Artist Talk: Thursday March 17, 6pm Free
Curated by Christina Yang
Since the early 90’s, New York-based artist Sowon
Kwon’s sculptural and video installations have explored
physical interiors as psychological spaces. Ranging from the
spectacular to the intimate, these animation-based works examine
relationships between collective and personal memory, spectatorship
and desire, and the formation of identity. Included in the
exhibition are Average Female (Perfect), a two-channel
video installation overlaying animated line drawings of the “average” female
figure onto “perfect” Olympic performances; Calendar,
comprised of multiple loops showing the repetitive, futile,
and at times humorous, actions of “un-average pin-ups”;
and Sonogong 2, a work combining references to iconic
1970s performance videos with imagery of urban commuters and
passersby.
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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A R T I S T T A L K
photo: dbox
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The Builders Association and dbox
April 2nd (Sat) 5pm free
In conjunction with their design residency at The Kitchen, the
Obie award-winning performance and media company The Builders
Association and the multidisciplinary studio dbox discuss
the latest developments in their work-in-progress Super Vision,
which examines issues of “dataveillance” through a
combination of cutting-edge digital animation, new video techniques,
electronic music, and live performance. Super Vision will
premiere at The Walker Art Center in October 2005.
Super Vision is being co-produced by The Wexner Center
for the Arts and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and
Design (ACCAD) at The Ohio State University; The Walker Art Center;
Montclair State University; New Zealand International Arts Festival;
BAM Next Wave Festival (list still in formation). Additional residency
support provided by The Kitchen and Arts at St. Ann’s.
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M U S I C
photo credit: Susie Ibarra by Claudio Casanova
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Susie Ibarra/Yusef Komunyakaa
Shangri La (work-in-progress)
April 15 & 16 (Fri & Sat) 8pm $10
Music by Susie Ibarra
Libretto by Yusef Komunyakaa
Choreographed and staged by Mariah Maloney
Conducted by Tania Leon
Set in modern-day Bangkok, this new chamber ensemble piece featuring
voice, strings, percussion, and electronics portrays Paradise and
Hell amidst the elusive underworld of international trade, the
Thai sex industry, and the country’s related AIDS epidemic.
Created by the groundbreaking composer/percussionist, Susie
Ibarra, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Yusef Komunyakaa,
Shangri-La’ story is told through the voices of prostitutes,
the foreign business men who become their lovers, and a “metaphysical
detective” investigating an embezzlement scheme. A true fusion
of cultural influences, the work integrates jazz, improvisation,
American blues, Thai classical and folk music, and experimental
techniques to capture the contradictions of a place of great beauty
and horror.
The work is partially commissioned by The Kitchen.
This work-in-progress presentation is made possible with the
generous support from Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo and Cody J. Smith.
Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous
support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Aaron
Copland Fund for Music and the Virgil Thomson Foundation.
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P E R F O R M A N C E / S C R E E N
I N G
photo: Michael Smith. ”Go For It, Mike,” 1984.
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
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Alter Ego
April 19th (Tue) 7pm $5
Curated by Lauren Cornell and Henriette Huldisch
This evening of short film and video explores how fictional identities
are used to engage the world in ways that might otherwise be prohibited,
or considered inappropriate or absurd. The program features the
work of both established and emerging artists who deploy alternate
personas to diverse ends, from political intervention to the fulfillment
of intimate fantasy. Artists in the program include Tara Matek, Bjørn
Melhus, Paper Rad, and Mike Smith, among others.
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D A N C E
photo credit: Pedro Jiménez & Okwui Okpokwasili by
Dean Moss
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Dean Moss/Laylah Ali
figures on a field
May 5-7 (Thu-Sat) & May 12-14 (Thu-Sat) 8pm $15
Panel Discussion: May 7 (Sat) 4pm Free
Conceived and directed by Dean Moss in collaboration
with Laylah Ali
Performers: Kacie Chang, Pedro Jimenez, Wanjiru
Kamuyu, Dean Moss, Okwui Okpokwasili, David
Thomson
Curated by Christina Yang
Laylah Ali’s provocative paintings featuring
her invented “Greenhead” characters are the inspiration
for this unique performance collaboration between Bessie-awarded
choreographer Dean Moss and the 2004 Whitney Biennial artist.
Through disquieting scenes enacted by a cast of six, figures
on a field addresses issues of power related to athletic, religious,
and military contexts, while also exploring the dynamic between
patterns of cultural consumption and formations of identity.
Major support has been provided by the Multi-Arts Production
Fund, a subsidiary of The Rockefeller Foundation. figures on
a field is co-commissioned by The Kitchen, with additional
support from the Individual Artists Fund of the New York State
Council on the Arts, a state agency. This project has received
initial workshop and presentation support from The Kitchen
MIST Residency program and the MassMoca Residency Program.
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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P E R F O R M A N C E / V I D E O
photo credit: Tony Conrad and the "long string"
"Destijl-Freedom from" festival, 2003
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Tony Conrad
Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain
Quadranga (U.S. Premiere) & three recent video works
Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain:
May 18 (Wed) 8-11pm
Quadranga (U.S. Premiere) & three recent video
works: May 24 (Tue) 8pm
$10 each
Curated by Andrew Lampert and Jim O’Rourke
One of the pioneers of structural filmmaking, video art, and
minimalist music, Tony Conrad restages his 1972 performance-installation
at The Kitchen, Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain.
This “minimalist spectacle” features a projected
film loop of black and white images, alongside a stellar group
of string players in an appeal for the need for peace in a time
of war. Quadranga (2004) is a trio for amplified strings
that rewrites the musical form of the popular Afro-Latin dance
the Charanga. Preceding this performance will be the screening
of three recent video works--Grading Tips for Teachers (2001), Hart (2001)
and Tony’s Oscular Pets (2003) -that humorously
echo Conrad’s ongoing engagement with themes of discipline
and control.
Related Conrad film, video, and lecture events will be held
from May 19th-22nd at Anthology Film Archives. Please consult www.anthologyfilmarchives.org for
more information.
Organized in conjuction with Anthonogy Film Archives.
Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous
support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Aaron
Copland Fund for Music and the Virgil Thomson Foundation.
The Kitchen’s 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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