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The Kitchen has announced its Fall 2008 (September – December) Season. Total Info Immersion after the jump. You download as PDF here.
EXHIBITION
Alix Pearlstein: After The Fall
September 5 October 18, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 6-8 pm
Gallery exhibition hours: Tue-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm FREE
Curated by Debra Singer
To open the Fall 2008 season, The Kitchen will present After The Fall, a
newly Kitchen-commissioned, four-channel video installation by the New
York-based artist Alix Pearlstein. Like much of Pearlstein¹s earlier work,
After the Fall operates in a realm between the theatrical and the cinematic,
exploring the psychological, emotional and social underpinnings of human
relationships and group dynamics. The exhibition reveals multiple
perspectives on a minimally scripted and choreographed confrontation between
two sets of opposing actors/characters, staged within the context of the
black box theater.
MUSIC/THEATER
Radiohole: ANGER/NATION
September 11 13, 18 20 (Thurs Sat), 8pm
September 24 27 (Wed Sat), 8pm
Tickets: $15
Known for their anarchic energy and madcap theatrical mashups, the
Brooklyn-based collective Radiohole presents the U.S. premiere of
ANGER/NATION. The piece explores the contradictory puritanical and
hedonistic underpinnings of the American psyche by colliding the psychedelic
aesthetic of occult filmmaker Kenneth Anger with the histrionic escapades of
self-proclaimed ³America’s Loving Home Defender,² Carrie A. Nation, a
remarkable 19th-century, hatchet-wielding temperance crusader.
Co-commissioned by The Kitchen, the donaufestival, and the Noorderzon
Festival, ANGER/NATION is created and performed by Radiohole members Eric
Dyer, Scott Halvorsen Gillette, and Maggie Hoffman in collaboration with
Iver Findlay. The performance will also feature video designed by Findlay,
So Yong Kim, and Radiohole.
PERFORMANCE
Ann Liv Young: The Bagwell In Me
October 2 4 (Thurs Sat), 8pm
Tickets: $12
Known for her psycho-sexual performance works, Ann Liv Young presents The
Bagwell In Me, a new theatrical solo based on the life and loves of George
Washington featuring original music by Young. Beginning with an
unconventional retelling of historical events, The Bagwell In Me quickly
takes unanticipated directions as Young explores notions of celebrity,
chivalry, Victorian manners, Southern hospitality and racism in America. For
these performances, Young will be joined by performer Isabel Lewis.
LITERATURE
An Evening with Chimurenga
October 6 (Mon), 7pm
FREE
Deftly blending writing, art, and politics, the Cape Town-based Pan-African
publication Chimurenga hosts an evening of readings and discussions with
current and past contributors. Founded and edited by writer and DJ Ntone
Edjabe in 2002, Chimurenga (loosely translated as ³liberation struggle²)
publishes tri-yearly print projects that interrogate the superficial and
give voice to the renegade in a series of ³thinking out loud² profiles,
deconstructed and imagined interviews, surreal short stories, poetry, and
other devices that challenge strict notions of fact and fiction. For more
information, visit www.chimurenga.co.za.
MUSIC/LITERATURE
A Power Stronger Than Itself: A Celebration of the AACM
Featuring performances by Nicole Mitchell, Amina Claudine Myers, Muhal
Richard Abrams, Matana Roberts, and Wet Ink
October 9 and 11 (Thurs and Sat), 8pm
Curated by George E. Lewis and Christopher McIntyre
Tickets: $10
October 11 (Sat), 5pm
Book Signing and Panel Discussion with Brent Hayes Edwards, George E. Lewis,
Howard Mandel, Nicole Mitchell, Amina Claudine Myers, and Ted Panken
Tickets: $5
In conjunction with the recent publication of his book, A Power Stronger
Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago
Press, 2008), composer, musician, former Kitchen music curator and long-time
AACM member George Lewis hosts performances, a panel discussion and a book
signing. Founded in 1965 on the south side of Chicago, the Association for
the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is a dynamic collective that
has reconfigured the trajectory of music-making in America through its
devotion to furthering artistic experimentation and its forward-thinking
approach to composition, performance, improvisation and collectivity.
Paying tribute to the organization¹s history and celebrating its future,
this event will feature two evenings of AACM performances at The Kitchen
with Nicole Mitchell (flute), Amina Claudine Myers and Muhal Richard Abrams
(duo piano), Matana Roberts (saxophone); and the ensemble Wet Ink performing
works by AACM composers. A Saturday afternoon panel discussion moderated by
Christopher McIntyre will include Lewis, Myers and Mitchell as well as
writers Brent Hayes Edwards, Ted Panken and Howard Mandel. The discussion
will be followed by a book signing by Lewis.
These events frame a Friday evening concert of the music of Oliver Lake and
Reggie Nicholson at the Community Church of New York (40 East 35th Street)
on October 10 at 8 P.M., sponsored by the AACM New York Chapter, Inc. For
more information, please visit aacmchicago.org.
LITERATURE
Literary Death Match: an evening with Opium Magazine
October 14 (Tues), 7pm
Tickets: $7
In conjunction with the release of its seventh issue, Opium Magazine will
host a ³literary death
match,² bringing together recent and past contributors for a lightheartedly
competitive event featuring a series of short readings. 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.
MUSIC
Marc Cary and Samita Sinha with special guest Will Calhoun
Anatomy: Mutations
October 17 and 18 (Fri and Sat), 8pm
Tickets: $10
Composer and jazz pianist Marc Cary is known for his skillfully adventurous
compositions that combine diverse influences: traditional West African and
Native American musical forms to straight-ahead jazz, hip-hop and go-go
music. The duo Anatomy, Cary¹s newest collaboration with composer and
vocalist Samita Sinha, will perform Mutations, a new project that combines
Sinha¹s classical Hindustani vocal training with Cary¹s jazz roots. Taking
the materials of these disparate traditions through a series of insertions,
deletions, inversions, translocations and frameshifts, Anatomy creates a
sound uniquely their own.
Will Calhoun, Grammy award-winning jazz drummer of Living Colour, and Mos
Def¹s Black Jack Johnson, will open the evening with a solo set in addition
to accompanying Anatomy. Calhoun¹s adventurous performances test the
boundaries of improvisational hard rock, jazz and hip-hop drumming.
FILM/MUSIC
Jennifer Reeves: When it was Blue
Featuring live music by Skúli Sverrisson, Anthony Burr, and Ted Reichman
October 29 and 30 (Wed and Thur), 8pm
Tickets: $10
Known for her award-winning experiments with hand-made film, Jennifer Reeves
presents a screening of her new large-scale work When it was Blue,
accompanied by a lush score composed by Skúli Sverrisson, and
performed live by Sverrisson (guitars and bass), Anthony Burr (bass clarinet
and organ) and Ted Reichman (piano and accordion). An ode to the natural
world, this super-imposed dual-projection film traverses a diversity of
ecosystems from the US and Canada, to Iceland, New Zealand and Central
America. Reeves¹ complex, textural hand-painted film interprets the nuances
and intricacies of the shot footage onto which it is overlaid, taking the
viewer on a frenetic visual journey through decades and seasons.
DANCE
RoseAnne Spradlin: Blue Liz
October 23 25 (Thurs Sat), 8pm
October 26 (Sun), 5pm
Tickets: $12
Blue Liz, a new work by choreographer RoseAnne Spradlin, samples imagery,
text and sound from the 1960s to evoke a Vietnam war-time mindset and
pop/minimalist aesthetic. Collaborating with composer Chris Forsyth, who
performs live, Spradlin draws on the visual and sonic vocabularies of the
decade¹s political and cultural events to explore the accumulation of
meaning in ordinary human gestures; pop art¹s paradoxically mechanical and
sensual sensibility; experiences and expressions of escapism and idealism;
and how women live in a man¹s world. Performers will include Nathalie Green,
Michael Helland, Colin Stillwell, Sandy Tillett and Rebecca Wender.
EXHIBITION
Rodney McMillian
October 30 December 20, 2008
Opening Reception: October 30, (Thurs), 6-8pm
Gallery Exhibition Hours: TueFri, 126pm; Sat 116pm FREE
Curated by Rashida Bumbray
A painter, sculptor, performer and video maker, Los-Angeles based artist
Rodney McMillian is known for his multi-genre practice, which explores the
physical and psychological relationships between culture, race,
socioeconomic status and the imbalance of power. For his first New York solo
exhibition, McMillian presents a new installation that uses his signature
aesthetic‹repurposed discarded, decrepit found furniture objects and
abstract expressionism‹to investigate southern historical memory and
heritage, national cultural-consciousness, sacred architectural space and
Western materialism. The exhibition illuminates the dark and ghostly
tensions, frustrations, and hopes inherent in today¹s political climate and
will feature a minimalist, synthesizer-based sound installation by composer
Stefan Tcherepnin.
MUSIC
eighth blackbird
November 13 and 14 (Thurs and Fri), 8pm
Tickets: $15
The Grammy Award-winning, six-player new music ensemble eighth blackbird
combines bracing virtuosity with a fresh and alluring sense of
experimentation and panache. For these concerts, the group will join forces
with Oberlin College¹s renowned Contemporary Music Ensemble to form a
conductorless twelve-player ³super-group² and perform the world premieres of
commissioned compositions by two legendary American mavericks, Frederic
Rzewski and Steve Reich including Rzewski¹s Knight, Death and the Devil‹a
bizarre fantasia on songs associated with war, inspired by Dürer¹s haunting
engraving of the same name; the first live performance of Reich¹s funky
rhythmic tour-de-force, Double Sextet; Rzewski¹s rarely heard experiment in
ensemble dynamics, Les Moutons de Panurge; and a multimedia interpretation
of Reich¹s duo, Cello Counterpoint.
DANCE
Beth Gill: What do you see?
November 20 22 (Thurs Sat), 8pm
Tickets: $12
Curated by Sarah Michelson
Known for her captivatingly austere use of motion and staging,
Brooklyn-based choreographer Beth Gill¹s What do you see? uses stillness and
space to create tensions that stimulate the audience¹s awareness of its own
physical presence. In What do you see?, Gill¹s first full-length
performance, she considers and deconstructs the relationships of dance
composition¹s formal elements of time, space, and energy through the
deliberate placement of five women and stage lighting in and around a square
set within the larger black box architecture of The Kitchen, Gill sets for
herself the impossible task of disassembling the essence of movement to
arrive at a choreography that is deeply integrated with and highly-specific
to each performance. Gill will collaborate with designers Jeff Larson and
Joe Levasseur.
LITERATURE/PERFORMANCE
Dexter Sinister: True Mirror Microfiche
November 25 (Tues), 7pm
FREE
Dexter Sinister presents True Mirror Microfiche, an evening of readings and
performances in the form of a projected microfiche lecture. A continuation
of their recent project for the 2008 Whitney Biennial (True Mirror, 2008),
the performance is presented in conjunction with their new publication, DOT
DOT DOT #16 (A W.A.S.T.E. of Ink (After Thomas Pynchon)). Recently described
as Œpamphleteers,¹ Sinister operates a workshop in a basement on the Lower
East Side, intended to model a ŒJust-In-Time¹ economy of print production,
running counter to the contemporary assembly-line realities of large-scale
publishing. Their creative practice considers alternate distribution
strategies and collapses distinctions between editing, design, production
and distribution into one efficient activity.
DANCE/MUSIC
Hoofers¹ House
Hosted by Tamango
Featuring Pheeroan Aklaff, Francis Mbappe, and other special guest musicians
December 1 (Mon), 8pm
Co-Presented with The Studio Museum in Harlem
Curated by Rashida Bumbray
FREE
Hoofers¹ House is an ongoing series where some of the best of New York
City¹s rhythm tap community come together to share and showcase their moves.
Among the most unique and cutting edge tap jam sessions in the city,
Hoofers¹ House has been helping to rejuvenate the genre for the last several
years with the addition of live and electronic music and projected visuals.
Prominent past participants include Fayard Nicholas, Jimmy Slyde, Harold
Kromer, Tina Pratt, Jason Bernard and Ayodele Casel.
LITERATURE
An Evening with Farimani
December 2 (Tues), 7pm
FREE
Following the recent publication of their inaugural issue, the new cultural
theory journal Farimani presents an evening of performances and discussions
with recent and upcoming contributors. Showcasing a diverse selection of
work from artists, musicians and theorists, Farimani creates a space for an
open dialogue among textual, musical and image-based projects.
MUSIC/FILM/THEATER
Less the Band: Astroland
December 1013 (Wed Sat), 8pm
Curated by Sarah Michelson
Tickets: $15
Less The Band is comprised of Robert Beitzel, Michael Chernus, Adam Rapp,
Ray Rizzo and Paul Sparks. For the world premiere of Astroland, this
Brooklyn-based ensemble of actors, writers and musicians collaborates with
artist and graphic novelist Danica Novgorodoff, lighting designer Ben
Stanton, the sound team Moose Lamp and filmmaker Graham Waterston. Part rock
opera, part post-modern fable, Astroland combines live music with video
animations and filmed interviews to tell the story of Steve and Molly who
board a train for Coney Island to face down the apocalypse. Along the way,
they encounter freak show luminaries, second comings, Winnebagos and strange
plastic formations inexplicably sprouting from the ocean¹s gut as they seek
out a path toward redemption and transcendence.
DANCE
Dance and Process: Hilary Clark, Mina Nishimura, and Kayvon Pourazar
December 18 and 19 (Thurs and Fri), 8pm
Curated by Yasuko Yokoshi
Tickets: $10
The culmination of an extended group process of sharing work and receiving
structured feedback, this season¹s Dance and Process will feature three new
works by choreographers Hilary Clark, Mina Nishimura and Kayvon Pourazar.
FUNDING CREDITS
The Kitchen thanks the following foundations and corporations for their
support: Altria Group, Inc; The Amphion Foundation; the Axe-Houghton
Foundation; Bloomberg; Aaron Copland Fund for Music; Carnegie Corporation of
New York; Cowles Charitable Trust; the Dedalus Foundation, Inc.; the Mary
Duke Biddle Foundation; the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust; Fried,
Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson LLP; Foundation for Contemporary Arts,
Inc.; Hand, Baldachin, and Amburgey LLP; The Harkness Foundation for Dance;
HSBC Private Bank, a division of HSBC Bank USA, N.A.; The GRAMMY
Foundation®; The Greenwall Foundation; IAC/InterActiveCorp; the Jerome
Foundation; The Jerome Robbins Foundation; the Mertz Gilmore Foundation; The
Orentreich Family Foundation; Overbrook Foundation; The Bay and Paul
Foundations; Reuters Group; James E. Robison Foundation; the May and Samuel
Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.; Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation;
Sotheby¹s; The Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation; The Summit
Foundation; Target; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
The Kitchen is also supported by the following public funds: The National
Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency;
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs through the office of Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn;
the New York City Council; the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic
Preservation through the offices of State Senator Thomas K. Duane and
Assembly Member Richard N. Gottfried.
ABOUT THE KITCHEN
The Kitchen is one of New York City¹s oldest nonprofit performance and
exhibition spaces, showing experimental work by innovative artists, both
emerging and established. Programs range from dance, music, and theatrical
performances to video and media arts exhibitions to literary events, film
screenings, and artists¹ talks. Since its inception in 1971, The Kitchen has
been a powerful force in shaping the cultural landscape of this country and
has helped launch the careers of many artists who have gone on to worldwide
prominence.
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