The Kitchen Sets Fall 2015 Season of Music, Theatre, Dance & More
By: Tyler Peterson Aug. 17, 2015
The Kitchen, founded in 1971, has continued to serve as an important catalyst for a broad community of groundbreaking artists working across disciplines. In today's landscape, where contemporary artists and arts institutions are collaborating in new ways, and generating new contexts for the continuing evolution of multi-disciplinary art, The Kitchen, as a nimble, smaller-scale organization, plays an especially vital role: it provides emerging and established artists a hot-house environment for the presentation and discussion of their work, supporting and seeking to foster a vibrant, living dialogue among artists from every field and area of culture.
On September 15, The Kitchen continues its support of bold experiments rooted in music when it premieres Sahra Motalebi's Sounds from Untitled Skies, which offers a convergence of classical art song repertoires and Persian modal singing. Claire Chase continues her 22-year project to commission an entirely new body of repertory for solo flute each year between 2014 and 2036 on September 29 & 30 and October 2 in a program of new works by Nathan Davis, Jason Eckardt, Dai Fujikura, Pauline Oliveros and Francesca Verunelli.
The season opens with a remarkable group of public programs as well, including Turner Prize-winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans on September 14, presenting and discussing unseen works in film and video made since the 1990s. On September 16, The Kitchen will host an evening with art critic and historian Hal Foster, who will read from Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency, his new book considering art and the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror. On October 3, legendary artist Mayo Thompson-renowned for his work with Red Krayola and Art & Language, makes an incredibly rare appearance in New York with Art Mystery.
Of the upcoming season, Executive Director and Chief Curator Tim Griffin said, "Every season, The Kitchen gives artists license to push the boundaries of their own work, making for a kind of joint adventure in art. But this Fall's programs bring a new level of ambition to this project, whether it's Ralph Lemon taking over the building and rethinking the protocols of gallery and theater, or Glasser challenging our basic understanding of what a concert is. We're honored to work with this group of artists truly devoted to creating a new generation of art."
More information on The Kitchen's Fall 2015 programming is below. Tickets are available online at www.thekitchen.org; by phone at 212.255.5793 x11; and in person at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street), Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2:00-6:00 P.M.
THE KITCHEN FALL 2015 PROGRAMMING
[EXHIBITION / PERFORMANCE]
Sam Falls with Hart of Gold and Oldd News
"September Spring"
September 10-October 10 with performances at 5pm
Opening: September 9, 6-8pm
"September Spring" marks The Kitchen debut of multi-disciplinary artist Sam Falls, known primarily for his conceptual work, which incorporates photography, painting and natural elements. In his first performance-based work, created in collaboration with the performance duo Hart of Gold (Jessie Gold and Elizabeth Hart), "September Spring" uses the music of Oldd News, the moniker of Falls frequent collaborator and god-brother Jamie Kanzler, as both the soundtrack and catalyst for the work. Open to the public during gallery hours, the centerpiece of "September Spring" is daily 5pm performances by Hart of Gold that are repeated 24 times during the course of the exhibition in order to produce 24 paintings, in tribute to Kanzler's age when he died suddenly in 2013. While "September Spring" marks a shift for Falls towards a more personal narrative, a clear lineage can be seen in the work's use of repetition, the passage of time and its surrendering to the ephemeral nature of live performance. Organized by Lumi Tan as part of "From Minimalism into Algorithm."
[DANCE]
koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO
I am capitalism
September 10-12 at 8pm; $15
koosil-ja, along with Geoff Matters, continues her research on Body via Deleuze-dealing this time with the psyche of capitalism embedded in her own corporeality, and seeking to exorcise it in a work conjuring movement, video, text, light and sound. Organized by Matthew Lyons.
[FILM/VIDEO]
Wolfgang Tillmans
September 14 at 5pm and 7:30pm; $5
The Turner Prize-winning artist presents films and videos from the past twenty years. Tillmans introduces.
[MUSIC / PERFORMANCE]
Sahra Motalebi
Sounds from Untitled Skies
September 15 at 8pm; $12
As a series of landscapes rendered for the stage, Sounds from Untitled Skies implicates in its staging the subjective processes underlying the artist's experience of place, offering a convergence as well of choral sound fields, rhythmic vocal beats along with compositions that source inspiration from classical art song repertoire and Persian modal singing. Each of its six scenes are built on poems that render specific places - a bombed out city, unmediated natural landscapes, and a burning banquet table among them. Sahra Motalebi herself is in- and outside the frame-both narrator and actor, as well as architect-having constructed individual maquettes and projecting images of them here as stage-sets referencing her interest in 18th-century European paper architecture and early experimental theater. Sounds is a spectral collision of images, memory, concepts, and fiction. Organized by Lumi Tan.
[READING]
Hal Foster
Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency
September 16 at 7pm; Free
The art historian reads from his new book considering art and the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror.
[MUSIC]
Claire Chase
density 2036, parts i-iii
September 29, 30 and October 2 at 8pm; $15
Claire Chase continues her 22-year project to commission an entirely new body of repertory for solo flute each year between 2014 and 2036, the 100th Anniversary of Varèse's groundbreaking flute solo, Density 21.5. For its third iteration, Chase commissions and premieres new work by Nathan Davis, Jason Eckardt, Dai Fujikura, Pauline Oliveros and Francesca Verunelli. Organized by Matthew Lyons.
[MUSIC]
Art Mystery: An Evening with Mayo Thompson
October 3 at 7pm; Free.
Legendary artist Mayo Thompson-renowned for his work with Red Krayola and Art & Language, makes an incredibly rare appearance in New York with Art Mystery.
[PERFORMANCE]
Sergei Tcherepnin
October 15-17 at 8pm; $15
Sergei Tcherepnin premieres a ballet in lighting and musical composition for paintings set to new stories by Lucy Dodd that revolve around the Maize Mantis: a creature born of plants and shadows, here inhabiting a forest of canvases by Dodd and flame creatures painted by Kerstin Brätsch. Costumes by Hanna Törnudd and lighting by Zack Tinkelman. Organized by Tim Griffin.
[MUSIC / PERFORMANCE]
Glasser with Jonathan Turner
ChargeOctober 23 and 24 at 8pm; $20
In a music-based performance exploring the hyper-personal and sensorial connective tissue of human relationships-and the blurring of the senses by means of technology-Glasser's compositions both simulate and make use of the most personal sound source, the body, with beats and sound effects generated by her own breath and fingertips. Each sequence engages and augments a specific feeling and sensory organ, deepening the sacrifice of performer to audience. Organized by Lumi Tan.
[EXHIBITION / PERFORMANCE]
Ralph Lemon
Scaffold Room
October 30-December 5
Opening: October 30, 6-8pm
Ticketed performances: November 3-7, 9 and 10 at 8pm, and November 10 at 2pm, ground floor; $20
Scaffold Room is a new work by Ralph Lemon created in collaboration with April Matthis, Roderick Murray, Okwui Okpokwasili, Marina Rosenfeld, Mike Taylor and Philip White. Organized by Tim Griffin and Matthew Lyons.
The Kitchen Benefit Art Auction
November 17 at 7-9pm
Auction proceeds are shared with the participating artists and support The Kitchen's 2015-16 presenting season.
[PERFORMANCE]
Emily Sundblad
November 21 at 8pm, 22 at 5pm; $20
On the heels of her recent residency at The Kitchen, Sundblad and special guests including Juliana Huxtable and Ken Okiishi present performances incorporating new romantic texts and musical adaptations of both pop and traditional songs. Featuring members of the Wall Street Trinity Choir. Organized by Tim Griffin.
[DANCE]
Tere O'Connor
The Goodbye Studies
December 2-5, 8-12 at 8pm; $15
Harnessing complexity as a generative force, Tere O'Connor will create aqueous fields of constant movement for twelve dancers, where transition and event are indistinguishable. James Baker composes a new score made of numerous recorded components manipulated live into infinite reconfigurations. Lighting design by Michael O'Connor. Organized by Tim Griffin as part of "From Minimalism into Algorithm."
[MUSIC]
Synth Nights: Champagne Jerry, Penis, and Tami Tamaki
December 16 at 8pm; $15
This bill brings together artists forming new performative personae, each from their own radically different place on the musical spectrum. Sophia Cleary and Samara Davis created Penis, a feminist punk band committed to transformation, remaking value systems, and being vulnerable. Champagne Jerry is the hip hop project of Neal Medlyn that seeks to "continuously create and provide the most significant moments in everyone's lives." Making her US debut, Swedish electronica artist Tami Tamaki crafts sweeping, shimmery dance tracks that combines soft-focus romance with frank sexuality. Organized by Matthew Lyons.
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