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D A N C E
Photo: Darren Crawforth |
Maria Hassabi
Still Smoking
April 13-15
(Thu) 8pm, (Fri) 7pm and 9:30pm, (Sat) 8pm
Tickets $12
Curated by Sarah Michelson
Choreographer Maria Hassabi creates raw, emotional dances that reflect an ongoing investigation of the frenetic experience of city life. In this new commissioned work Hassabi shapes a rich theatrical environment of grandeur and excess through her distinctive movement vocabulary and stylized visual elements.
Still Smoking is performed by David Adamo, Caitlin Cook, Ori Flomin, Jessie Gold, Hristoula Harakas, and Maria Hassabi. With lighting by Joel Fitzpatrick, music by Ben Brunnemer and Dorit Chrysler, dramaturgy by Marcos Rosales, costumes by ThreeAsFour, and set design by Maria Hassabi.
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.
This performance was made possible with support from the Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial and in recognition of the valuable cultural contributions of artists to society.
  
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Ruination: A Symposium on Debris,
Decay,
and Destruction
April 17 (Monday)
7pm
Tickets $5
Organized by Cabinet Magazine
This panel discussion will explore how our ongoing fascination with ruins has informed our aesthetic, political, and philosophical frameworks. Panelists include Brian Dillon, editor of Cabinet's current issue on "Ruins," on the rise and fall of the aesthetics of ruin; Jeff Byles, author of Rubble, on the demolition industry; and Svetlana Boym, author of The Future of Nostalgia, on the contemporary ruin.
Cabinet is a quarterly non-profit arts and culture magazine. For more information, please visit www.cabinetmagazine.org.
This event is supported by a generous grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.
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D A N C E
Photo: Stephanie Berger |
Richard Move
The Show (Achilles Heels)
April 27-29 (Thu-Sat) and May 2-6 (Tue-Sat)
8pm
Tickets $20
Presented with Baryshnikov Dance Foundation and MoveOpolis!
In this New York-premiere, choreographer and director Richard Move brings to the stage a contemporary vision of the ancient Greek legend of Achilles. Move takes a wild spin on the story’s themes of war, love, glory, and fate, with a radical meld of dance forms, text, glamour, and reality television show antics.
Originally commissioned by Baryshnikov Dance Foundation for the White Oak Dance Project, The Show features Deborah Harry (Blondie), performing live songs as the Goddess Athena, and Rasta Thomas, most recently the lead in Broadway’s Movin’ Out, as Achilles, the role originally performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov. They will be joined by performers Miguel Anaya, Catherine Cabeen, Katherine Crockett, Roger C. Jeffrey, Blakeley White-McGuire, Kevin Scarpin, and Heather Waldon. The Show has an original score by Arto Lindsay, set design by visual artist Nicole Eisenman, lighting design by Les Dickert, and costumes by Pilar Limosner.
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
Photo: Yto Barrada, Girl in Red, 1999 |
Yto Barrada
A Life Full of Holes: The Strait Project
April 7– May 20, 2006
April 7 (Friday):
6-8pm Opening reception
Free Admission
Exhibition Hours: Tue-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat, 11-7pm
This first solo exhibition in the United States by the French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada features photographs and videos from her ongoing investigation of the city of Tangier and the adjacent narrow channel, the Strait of Gibraltar. Since the adoption of a common, closed border for the European Union created in 1991, North Africans are no longer able to travel freely across this channel, which forms an unique border - at once political, symbolic, and intimately personal - separating Africa from Europe. Reflecting a sensibility poised between the poetic and the documentary, Barrada's images reveal the tensions, frustrations, and hopes that animate the streets of her hometown.
This exhibition was selected by Sina Najafi, editor of Cabinet magazine, and was organized by Debra Singer and Matthew Lyons of The Kitchen.
This exhibition was made possible with support from étant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, a program of FACE.
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: Sozo Media |
DBR & THE MISSION
24 Bits (remixed)
May 11 and 12 (Thu and Fri)
8pm
Tickets $10
Composer and performer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) seamlessly blends classical music with modern musical genres such as funk, rock, hip-hop, and electronica. Performing with his ensemble DBR & THE MISSION, Roumain presents two evenings of compositions for string quartet and laptop as well as electric and acoustic pieces for solo violin, including Hip-Hop Studies and Etudes, Event Pieces, Beat Pieces, and a reprisal of Voodoo Violin Concerto No. 1, originally commissioned by The Kitchen.
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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L I T E R A T U R E
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Symposium: American Writing Today
Tuesday, May 16 7pm Free
7pm
FREE
Celebrate the publication of n+1's fourth issue with a public debate on "Symposium: American Writing Today," edited by Mark Greif. Panelists Caleb Crain, Keith Gessen, Vivian Gornick, and Benjamin Kunkel will introduce their contributions to the symposium--about academic criticism, the effect of money on contemporary literature, the function of memoir in the literary system, and "the perennial novel," respectively--and then open the floor to questions from the audience, and from moderator Greif.
Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and with support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation.
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M U S I C
Photo: Keiko Yoshida |
Aki Onda
Aki Onda’s Invisible Ensemble and special guest Shelley Hirsch
May 19 (Friday), 8pm
Tickets $10
Cassette Memories: a solo performance
May 20 (Saturday), 6-11pm FREE
Curated by Matthew Lyons and Christopher McIntyre
Japanese musician and composer Aki Onda, known for his work with hand-held cassette recorders and electronics, presents a concert evening with Aki Onda’s Invisible Ensemble, a largely improvisational group that generates imaginary sonic landscapes featuring Onda, Miguel Frasconi on glass percussion, and Marina Rosenfeld on turntables, as well as a duet with vocalist/performer Shelley Hirsch.
The following evening, Onda will perform his extended solo performance-installation, Cassette Memories, in which he plays back and manipulates selections from his vast collection of taped field-recordings he has made for more than fourteen years.
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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V I D E O
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North Drive Press
NDP: The Movie
An evening of video screenings
May 23 (Tuesday)
7pm
FREE
North Drive Press editors Matt Keegan and Sara Greenberger Rafferty present an evening that includes commissioned video interviews between NDP contributing artists Ian Cooper & Larry Mantello; Lauren Cornell & Sabrina Gschwandtner; and Michael Mahalchick & Lisi Raskin, interspersed with short videos by Ronnie Bass, David Dempewolf, and Mika Rottenberg; an excerpt of a sound piece Future of Ecstasy (2004) by Carol Bove; a 16mm film, BENETTON, by Andrew Lampert; and a live performance by Hurray, an improvisational artist band (Richard Aldrich, Josh Brand, Peter Mandradjieff, and Zak Prekop).
North Drive Press is an annual cultural project in a publication format featuring artist-to-artist interviews and limited edition multiples by emerging and early-career artists who work in a variety of media.
Media 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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M U S I C
Photo: Martin Eder |
Richard Ruin et Les Demoniaques
May 25 and 26 (Thursday and Friday)
Doors open at 8:30pm, performance at 9pm
Tickets $10
Adults only
German artist Martin Eder performs as his alter ego Richard Ruin and his band Les Demoniaques, which makes its U .S. debut at The Kitchen in conjunction with the release of its first album, The Heimlich Manoeuvre. The kitschy-bleak moods, between idyll and horror, that characterize Eder's paintings of dogs, cats and naked women are also found in his ballads and performances which recall the Bad Seeds of the 1980s, Christian Death, Jacques Brel, and insane Roky Erikson. The artist describes his dark melancholic show as a nightmare that ends with a bad magic trick. Adults only.
The performances are part of the Exhibition: Martin Eder: La Paix du Cul on view May 23 - July 1, 2006 at the Marianne Boesky Gallery at 535 West 22nd Street. The opening receptionis Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 6 - 8pm.
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Book Launch and Panel Discussion for East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe
with panelists Miran Mohar, Roger Conover, and Vitaly Komar
Organized by Afterall
Wednesday, May 31
7pm, FREE
First-come, first-served, with no reservations accepted.
This panel discussion celebrates the launch of East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe, an Afterall Book edited by IRWIN, a group of five artists who make up the visual art component of the Slovenian arts collective NSK, based in Ljubljana. East Art Map is an attempt to reconstruct the missing histories of contemporary art in Eastern Europe from an East European artistic perspective. A wide-ranging art documentation project by the East on the East, the publication involves a large network of artists, scholars, curators and critics coordinated by the IRWIN group over several years. Miran Mohar, member of IRWIN, Roger Conover, writer, curator and Executive Editor of MIT Press, and Vitaly Komar, whose work is featured in the East Art Map, will present and discuss the project.
Afterall is a research and publishing organization supported by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London and California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. It publishes a semi-annual journal of contemporary art and, from April 2006, two series of books. For more information, please visit www.afterall.org
Afterall Books are distributed by The MIT Press. For further information on East Art Map, see mitpress.mit.edu/afterall
This event is supported by the Consulate General of Slovenia in New York. |
P E R F O R M A N C E
Photo: Chethwith Murosian |
Michael Portnoy
The K Sound
June 8–10 (Thu-Sat)
8pm
Tickets $12
Curated by Sarah Michelson
"Two ass jokes and one joke’s ass was cluckin’ on the porch at all the abandoned jokes, teasers and kickers, good mouth jokes, punctured jokes, joke ass jokes and nice guys that never came ‘round no more…"
So might begin a tale about a gathering of experimental jokes from around the world told by Professor Kiffy, sung by a diva-wizard, and acted out by an entire sweating village in this new dance-theater piece by Michael Portnoy. Set to a lush, convulsive electro-acoustic score, Portnoy’s astonishing form of “operatic stand-up” defies explanation in this fantastical commentary on the structure and
content of spoken comedy.
The show features performers David Adamo, Willa Carroll, Walter Gambini, John King, Sarah Michelson, Chethwith Murosian, Johnnie Moore, Natasha Papadopoulou, Michael Portnoy, Elisa Santiago, Pete Simpson, Jeremy Wade and others, a set designed by visual artist Robert Melee, and music composed and accompanied live by Pete Drungle.
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.
This performance was made possible with support from the Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial and in recognition of the valuable cultural contributions of artists to society.
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Photo: Dan Mihaltianu, La Revolution Dans Le Boudoir
(video still), 1999 |
New Video, New Europe
Panel Discussion
June 12 (Monday) 7pm
FREE
Panel Discussion with Ki'wa, Dan Mihaltianu, and Egle Rakauskaite and curator Hamza Walker
Organized in conjunction with our current exhibition, New Video, New Europe - a survey of new video works by more than thirty artists from sixteen eastern European countries - this special public panel will be moderated by the show's curator Hamza Walker from the Renaissance Society in Chicago and will feature presentations by several of the exhibiting artists, including Ki'wa (Estonia), Dan Mihaltianu (Romania), and Egle Rakauskaite (Lithuania). The discussion will provide an opportunity for comparative analysis of video art practices as they emerged in the artists’ respective countries and across the Eastern European region as a whole, and will take into consideration the conditions of video art’s initial reception and its present day proliferation.
The exhibition will be on view May 31 - June 30.
Exhibition Hours: Tue-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat, 11-7pm
Free Admission
New Video, New Europe was organized by the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and was made possible by The American Center Foundation. The New York presentation of New Video, New Europe and the panel discussion are made possible with generous support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Romanian Cultural Institute, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional support has been provided by Czech Center, New York; The Polish Cultural Institute; and The Hungarian Cultural Center.
 
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L I T E R A T U R E
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BOMB All-Stars Reading Series
June 14 (Wednesday)
7pm
Tickets $5
BOMB Magazine celebrates its 25th anniversary year of publishing legendary interviews with an all-star literary line-up of its contributing editors, including: Kimiko Hahn, whose new collection of poetry, The Narrow Road to the Interior, will be published in July; poet Matthea Harvey, author of the collection Sad Little Breathing Machine; Jaime Manrique reading from his latest novel, Our Lives Are the Rivers; Robert Polito, author of Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson; and Ned Sublette, reading from his work in progress, The Year Before The Flood: Music, Murder and the Legacy of Slavery in New Orleans.
Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and with support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation.
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E X H I B I T I O N
Photo: Anna Niesterowicz, HH (video still), 2002 |
New Video, New Europe
May 31 – July 8
EXHIBITION EXTENDED: Due to the popularity of New Video, New Europe, we are extending the show through Saturday, July 8. Please note that The Kitchen is closed on July 4.
Exhibition Hours: Tue-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat, 11-7pm
Free Admission
Panel Discussion with artists Ki'wa, Dan Mihaltianu, and Egle Rakauskaite and curator Hamza Walker
June 12 (Monday) 7pm
Curated by Hamza Walker
New Video, New Europe is a survey exhibition of recent video work by more than three dozen artists from sixteen Eastern European countries stretching from the Baltic through the Balkans, including Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The works in the exhibition reflect a variety of genres and approaches – documentary, diaristic, ethnographic, and experimental – and are broken up into a series of five programs which tackle different themes.
The artists in the exhibition are:
Dan Acostioaei, Jesper Alvaer, Azorro,
Maja Bajevic, Dario Bardic, Alma Becirovic, Pavel Braila, Mircea Cantor, Oana Felipov, Alen Floricic, Varnai Gyula, Tiia Johannson, Kai Kaljo, Ki'Wa, Kristina Leko, Peteris Lidaka, Killu Sukmit & Mari Laanemets,
Dan Mihaltianu, Hajnal Németh,
Anna Niesterowicz, Vladimir Nikolic,
Adrian Paci, Jelena Radic, Arturas Raila,
Egle Rakauskaite, Lala Rascic, Stefan Rusu, Ene-Liis Semper, Erzen Shkololli, son:DA, Mladen Stilinovic, Patricia Teodorescu, Krassimir Terziev, Magda Tóthová,
Muhidin Tvico, Pavle Vuckovic,
Piotr Wryzykowski, Sislej Xhafa,
and Dragana Zarevac.
Panel Discussion with Ki'wa, Dan Mihaltianu, and Egle Rakauskaite and curator Hamza Walker
June 12 (Monday), 7pm
FREE
New Video, New Europe was organized by the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and was made possible by The American Center Foundation. The New York presentation of New Video, New Europe and the panel discussion are made possible with generous support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Romanian Cultural Institute, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional support has been provided by Czech Center, New York; The Polish Cultural Institute; and The Hungarian Cultural Center.
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