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The Kitchen announces first session of The Kitchen L.A.B.,A new inter-disciplinary discussion series,Wednesday, September 19Featuring Shannon Jackson, Elad Lassry, Tere O’Connor and Lynne Tillman
 
New York, NY, September 17, 2012—On Wednesday, September 19, The Kitchen inauguratesThe Kitchen L.A.B., a new program devoted to presenting, discussing, and developinginterdisciplinary works revolving around themes of common interest to artists in different fields—and, more specifically, considering the meaning and uses of specific words in contemporary art.This season’s theme, presence, will be discussed by four of the most prominent voices in the artstoday: Shannon Jackson, Elad Lassry, Tere O’Connor and Lynne Tillman.
Moderated by The Kitchen’s executive director and chief curator Tim Griffin, the event will startat 7:00 P.M. at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street). Admission is free and open to the public.Seating is first-come, first-served.
Throughout its 40-year history, The Kitchen has been committed to a spirit of innovation acrossdisciplines and, in this regard, hosts an incredibly diverse audience. And yet this audience today isalso surprisingly atomized.
To wit, art communities see art, dance communities see dance, music communities see music, and so on. Such disjuncture pervades the contemporary cultural field even while there is an increasinginterest among artists in interdisciplinarity. Thus, the same words often carry very differentmeanings for artists in different fields, and the same maneuvers signify in different ways.
The Kitchen L.A.B. invites artists to unpack such vocabularies by responding to them both inconversation and artworks, creating hybrid events that will underline not only points ofcommonality among disciplines but also, as important, real differences.
 
The series begins against the backdrop of Elad Lassry’s Untitled (Presence), for which hecollaborates with dancers from the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater in TheKitchen theater space, aiming to consider changing relationships between performance,photographic reproduction, and perception.
 
Elad Lassry’s work was recently featured in ILLUMInations, at the International Pavilion at the54th Venice Biennale, and in a solo exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway. He will have asolo exhibition at Fondazione Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy, this year as well. His solo exhibitionshave also been held at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kunsthalle Zurich,Switzerland; the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; and Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland.
Recent group exhibitions include The Anxiety of Photography, Aspen Art Museum; SecretSocieties. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and CAPCde Bordeaux; Time Again, SculptureCenter, New York; Les Rencontres d'Arles 2010 / Edition 41,Arles, France; and New Photography 2010, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
Shannon Jackson is the director of the Arts Research Center at University of California atBerkeley where she is also Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater,Dance and Performance Studies. Previous publications include Professing Performance (2004),Lines of Activity (2000) and Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics (2011).
 
Tere O’Connor has been choreographing since 1982 and has created over 35 works for hiscompany. The company has performed all over the world, for such distinguished organizations asthe Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project, de Rotterdamse Dansgroep, Dance Alloy, andZenon. O’Connor is a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellow, recipient of a Foundation forContemporary Performance Art Award, Arts International’s DNA Project Award, and a CreativeCapital Award, and past Guggenheim Fellow.
 
Lynne Tillman is the author of five novels, four collections of short stories, one collection ofessays and two other nonfiction books. She collaborates often with artists and writes regularly onculture. Her novels include American Genius, A Comedy (2006) and No Lease on Life (1998)which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998 and a finalist for the National Book CriticsCircle Award, She is the Fiction Editor at Fence Magazine, Professor and Writer-in-Residence inthe Department of English at the University at Albany, and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
 
 
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FIAF AND THE KITCHEN PRESENT U.S. PREMIERE OF
DD DORVILLIER’S DANZA PERMANENTE
AS PART OF THE 2012 CROSSING THE LINE FESTIVAL
Performed in Near Silence, New Work Transposes the Score of a
Beethoven String Quartet Into Movement for Four Dancers
Danza Permanente
DD Dorvillier/human future dance corps
Co-presented by The Kitchen and
The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)’s 2012 Crossing the Line festival
The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street, NYC)
Wednesday – Sunday, September 26 – 30 at 8:00 P.M.
Tickets: $15, www.thekitchen.org, 212.255.5793 x11

“Ms. Dorvillier has a gift for creating a kind of irrational theater that is held together by the strength of a
single imaginative vision.” — The New York Times

 

New York, New York, August 29, 2012—The Kitchen and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF),
New York’s premiere French cultural center, present the U.S. premiere of Danza Permanente, from DD  Dorvillier and her human future dance corps, as part of the 2012 Crossing the Line festival. Danza  Permanente transposes the score of a Beethoven string quartet into movement for four dancers, each of whom  takes the part of a single instrument. The work is performed in near silence with bursts of recorded sound by  Zeena Parkins, who also serves as music director.
Performances of Danza Permanente will take place Wednesday through Sunday, September 26–30 at 8:00  P.M. at The Kitchen, which is located at 512 West 19th Street, NYC.

Tickets, which are $15, are available
online at www.thekitchen.org and by phone at 212.255.5793 x11.
In Danza Permanente, the performers embody the musical structure and dynamics of the string quartet,  behaving as sound, in silence. The transposition of the score is by choreographer DD Dorvillier and  composer/music director Zeena Parkins, with dancers Fabian Barba, Nuno Bizarro, Walter Dundervill,  Naiara Mendioroz, and rehearsal assistant Heather Kravas. The lighting design by Thomas Dunn and the  acoustic environment by Parkins follow the score, framing the silence and the dance.Of creating Danza Permanente, Dorvillier has said, “I chose to work with the score of Ludwig Van  Beethoven's String Quartet #15, in A Minor, Op. 132, not so much for the man Beethoven himself, but for the  music, which is at once moving, demanding, rigorous, and extreme in contrasts, colors, and mood changes.

This infamous and beloved music has an intellectual and affective power that is akin to literature. It is thinking
music. Danza Permanente originates from a curiosity about how, without words, music, through its unique properties, induces thought and feeling.

 
DD Dorvillier (choreographer) Puerto Rico, 1967. Choreographer, dancer, and teacher in New York City since 1989. Bessie Awards for choreography (Dressed for Floating, 2003) and performance (Parades & Changes, replays, 2010). In 1991, Dorvillier and dancer/choreographer Jennifer Monson created the Matzoh Factory. For over a decade, the studio was a grassroots site for wild experimentation where choreographers and artists congregated for low-tech/low-cost shows, rehearsals, parties, and readings. Dorvillier has worked with and been deeply influenced by Jennifer Monson, Zeena Parkins, Jennifer Lacey, Yvonne Meier, Sarah Michelson, and Karen Finley, among others. She has been an MR Artist in Residence, curator of the MR
Festival, and co-editor the MR Performance Journals “Release” and her awards include NYFA Choreography  Fellowship (2000), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2007), and Guggenheim Fellowship
(2011). Her work has been presented in NYC at The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project,  and PS 122, and others. Internationally she has presented her work at ImPulsTanz, Vienna; DeSingel,  Antwerp, STUK, Leuven; Hau/Hebel am Ufer, Berlin; Frascati, Amsterdam; Zagreb Dance Weeks, Zagreb; Springdance Dialogues/TSEH Festival, Moscow; and many others.

Zeena Parkins (composer, musical director) multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, sound artist, wellknown as a pioneer of the electric harp, has also extended the language of the acoustic harp with the inventive use of unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of digital and analog processing. Parkins has received commissions to provide scores for film, video, chamber orchestras, theater and dance. She has longterm creative relationships with Neil Greenberg, John Jasperse, Jennifer Monson, Jennifer Lacey, DD Dorvillier, and Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh, and has also appeared with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, who commissioned a new work for Experiments in the Studio. She has appeared in festivals worldwide and on  countless recordings. Some collaborators include: Kim Gordon, John Zorn, Bjork, Yoko Ono, Christian Marclay, Fred Frith, Elliott Sharp, Thurston Moore and filmmakers Cynthia Madansky, Mandy McIntosh and
Daria Martin. Zeena has received three Bessies for her extraordinary work in music within the dance and performance field in the United States and abroad for over two decades.

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12249501865?profile=original Photo Archive June 30—August 27 New York, NY, May 23, 2011—The Kitchen presents The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years, 1971-85, an exhibition featuring single-channel videos and other artworks presented alongside video, audio, and print documentation related to the institution’s programming during its first fifteen years, which were spent in Soho. There will be an opening reception for The View from a Volcano at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Wednesday, June 29, 6:00–8:00 P.M. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, June 30 through Saturday, August 27. The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday—Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free. Curated by Debra Singer, Matthew Lyons, and Lumi Tan as part of The Kitchen’s 40th anniversary season, The View from a Volcano reveals the depth of the organization’s early history as a home for both experimental performance-based work and new developments in the visual arts, offering a unique perspective on the vibrant, interconnected downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s and early 1980s. The exhibition will include work, and/or documentation of work, by ground-breaking artists who were redefining what art, music, dance, and performance could be. Those artists include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Karole Armitage, Robert Ashley, Charles Atlas, Beastie Boys, Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Trisha Brown, Rhys Chatham, Lucinda Childs, Tony Conrad, Simone Forti, Philip Glass, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Bill T. Jones, Mike Kelley, George Lewis, Arto Lindsay, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Meredith Monk, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler, Charlemagne Palestine, Arthur Russell, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman, Stuart Sherman, Sonic Youth, Elizabeth Streb, Talking Heads, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Lawrence Weiner and many more.
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12249501865?profile=original Photo Archive June 30—August 27 New York, NY, May 23, 2011—The Kitchen presents The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years, 1971-85, an exhibition featuring single-channel videos and other artworks presented alongside video, audio, and print documentation related to the institution’s programming during its first fifteen years, which were spent in Soho. There will be an opening reception for The View from a Volcano at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Wednesday, June 29, 6:00–8:00 P.M. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, June 30 through Saturday, August 27. The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday—Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free. Curated by Debra Singer, Matthew Lyons, and Lumi Tan as part of The Kitchen’s 40th anniversary season, The View from a Volcano reveals the depth of the organization’s early history as a home for both experimental performance-based work and new developments in the visual arts, offering a unique perspective on the vibrant, interconnected downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s and early 1980s. The exhibition will include work, and/or documentation of work, by ground-breaking artists who were redefining what art, music, dance, and performance could be. Those artists include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Karole Armitage, Robert Ashley, Charles Atlas, Beastie Boys, Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Trisha Brown, Rhys Chatham, Lucinda Childs, Tony Conrad, Simone Forti, Philip Glass, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Bill T. Jones, Mike Kelley, George Lewis, Arto Lindsay, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Meredith Monk, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler, Charlemagne Palestine, Arthur Russell, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman, Stuart Sherman, Sonic Youth, Elizabeth Streb, Talking Heads, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Lawrence Weiner and many more.
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12249501865?profile=original Photo Archive June 30—August 27 New York, NY, May 23, 2011—The Kitchen presents The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years, 1971-85, an exhibition featuring single-channel videos and other artworks presented alongside video, audio, and print documentation related to the institution’s programming during its first fifteen years, which were spent in Soho. There will be an opening reception for The View from a Volcano at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Wednesday, June 29, 6:00–8:00 P.M. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, June 30 through Saturday, August 27. The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday—Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free. Curated by Debra Singer, Matthew Lyons, and Lumi Tan as part of The Kitchen’s 40th anniversary season, The View from a Volcano reveals the depth of the organization’s early history as a home for both experimental performance-based work and new developments in the visual arts, offering a unique perspective on the vibrant, interconnected downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s and early 1980s. The exhibition will include work, and/or documentation of work, by ground-breaking artists who were redefining what art, music, dance, and performance could be. Those artists include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Karole Armitage, Robert Ashley, Charles Atlas, Beastie Boys, Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Trisha Brown, Rhys Chatham, Lucinda Childs, Tony Conrad, Simone Forti, Philip Glass, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Bill T. Jones, Mike Kelley, George Lewis, Arto Lindsay, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Meredith Monk, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler, Charlemagne Palestine, Arthur Russell, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman, Stuart Sherman, Sonic Youth, Elizabeth Streb, Talking Heads, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Lawrence Weiner and many more.
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12249501865?profile=original Photo Archive June 30—August 27 New York, NY, May 23, 2011—The Kitchen presents The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years, 1971-85, an exhibition featuring single-channel videos and other artworks presented alongside video, audio, and print documentation related to the institution’s programming during its first fifteen years, which were spent in Soho. There will be an opening reception for The View from a Volcano at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Wednesday, June 29, 6:00–8:00 P.M. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, June 30 through Saturday, August 27. The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday—Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free. Curated by Debra Singer, Matthew Lyons, and Lumi Tan as part of The Kitchen’s 40th anniversary season, The View from a Volcano reveals the depth of the organization’s early history as a home for both experimental performance-based work and new developments in the visual arts, offering a unique perspective on the vibrant, interconnected downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s and early 1980s. The exhibition will include work, and/or documentation of work, by ground-breaking artists who were redefining what art, music, dance, and performance could be. Those artists include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Karole Armitage, Robert Ashley, Charles Atlas, Beastie Boys, Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Trisha Brown, Rhys Chatham, Lucinda Childs, Tony Conrad, Simone Forti, Philip Glass, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Bill T. Jones, Mike Kelley, George Lewis, Arto Lindsay, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Meredith Monk, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler, Charlemagne Palestine, Arthur Russell, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman, Stuart Sherman, Sonic Youth, Elizabeth Streb, Talking Heads, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Lawrence Weiner and many more.
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12249501865?profile=original Photo Archive June 30—August 27 New York, NY, May 23, 2011—The Kitchen presents The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years, 1971-85, an exhibition featuring single-channel videos and other artworks presented alongside video, audio, and print documentation related to the institution’s programming during its first fifteen years, which were spent in Soho. There will be an opening reception for The View from a Volcano at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Wednesday, June 29, 6:00–8:00 P.M. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, June 30 through Saturday, August 27. The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday—Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free. Curated by Debra Singer, Matthew Lyons, and Lumi Tan as part of The Kitchen’s 40th anniversary season, The View from a Volcano reveals the depth of the organization’s early history as a home for both experimental performance-based work and new developments in the visual arts, offering a unique perspective on the vibrant, interconnected downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s and early 1980s. The exhibition will include work, and/or documentation of work, by ground-breaking artists who were redefining what art, music, dance, and performance could be. Those artists include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Karole Armitage, Robert Ashley, Charles Atlas, Beastie Boys, Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Trisha Brown, Rhys Chatham, Lucinda Childs, Tony Conrad, Simone Forti, Philip Glass, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Bill T. Jones, Mike Kelley, George Lewis, Arto Lindsay, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Meredith Monk, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler, Charlemagne Palestine, Arthur Russell, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman, Stuart Sherman, Sonic Youth, Elizabeth Streb, Talking Heads, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Lawrence Weiner and many more.
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