http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8jh3rrr Online items available Finding aid for The Kitchen videos and records, 1971-2011 (bulk 1971-1999) Judy Chou, Mark Simon Haydn, Emmabeth Nanol and Laura Schroffel. Finding aid for The Kitchen 2014.M.6 1 videos and records, 1971-2011 (bulk 1971-1999) Descriptive Summary Title: The Kitchen videos and records Date (inclusive): 1967-2011 (bulk 1971-1999) Number: 2014.M.6 Creator/Collector: Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film, and Literature (New York, N.Y.) Physical Description: 426 Linear Feet(446 boxes, 7 flat file folders, 1 boxed roll) Repository: The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688 [email protected] URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390 Abstract: The Kitchen has been a center for innovative artistic activity since its founding in 1971. Operating as a meeting place between disciplines in New York, the space has fostered the development of experimental artwork across music, video, dance, performance, and installation art. The archive predominantly contains extensive video and audio recordings documenting performances at the space; artist files; posters; and printed ephemera. Audio and video recordings are unavailable until reformatted. Contact the repository for information regarding access. Some audiovisual material is currently available for on-site use only. Request Materials: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the catalog record for this collection. Click here for the access policy . Language: Collection material is in English Biographical / Historical Note The Kitchen was founded in 1971 as an artist collective by video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka. Located in the unused kitchen of the former Mercer Arts Center in Greenwich Village, the space functioned as an arena where artists could share their ideas with like-minded colleagues. Dedicated to music and video, and emphasizing experimentation with emergent forms of technology, programming soon evolved to encompass dance, performance, readings, and seminars on art and technology. By the fall of 1973, The Kitchen had incorporated as a non-profit and, just before the physical collapse of its building on Mercer Street, moved to 59 Wooster Street (with a second entrance on 484 Broome), a second-floor loft replete with a gallery, a performance area, and a video viewing room. This new location placed The Kitchen in the heart of South of Houston Street (SoHo), then a burgeoning arts district attracting a close-knit community of artists from an array of fields. Near-daily programming at the space cohered into five main areas: visual art, film/video, dance, music, and performance art. The Kitchen solidified into a professional, partially-funded institution staffed with curators and technicians, closely affiliated with key artists of the period, presenting important works in Minimalism, installation art, photography, electronic, punk and New Wave music, and No Wave cinema. In addition to its on-site activity, The Kitchen acted as a distributor of artists' film and video, and arranged programs that toured across the US. In the spring of 1986, The Kitchen moved to the space it currently occupies at 512 West 19th Street in Chelsea. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s The Kitchen continued supporting the generations of artists that had come of age during its early years, while also exploring new themes around multiculturalism, AIDS activism, digital technology, and the nascent internet. Today, The Kitchen is still known and respected for its experimental exhibitions and programs, and for its support of artists at various stages in their careers. Sources consulted: "The Kitchen: About." The Kitchen. Accessed June 1, 2016. http://thekitchen.org/about. Sally Banes. "Choreographing Community: Dancing in the Kitchen." Dance Chronicle 25, no. 1 (2002): 143-61. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1568183. Tania Ørum and Jesper Olsson. A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975. BRILL, 2016. Glenn Phillips, Acquisition Approval Form for The Kitchen videos and records, 2014.M.6, 2013. Ben Portis. "The Vasulkas and The Kitchen." EAI.org. Accessed June 1, 2016. http://web.archive.org/web/20100920225951/http://eai.org/kinetic/ch2/kitchen/Kitchen_Essay.html. Finding aid for The Kitchen 2014.M.6 2 videos and records, 1971-2011 (bulk 1971-1999) Access Open for use by qualified researchers. Audio visual and born digital materials are unavailable until reformatted. Offsite material may require additional retrieval time; contact reference for information. Preferred citation The Kitchen videos and records, 1971-2011 (bulk 1971-1999), The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2014.M.6 http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2014m6 Acquisition Information Acquired in 2014. Processing history Posters were processed by Mark Simon Haydn between October and November 2015. The audiovisual series was encoded from an inventory from The Kitchen between 2015 and 2016 by Laura Schroffel. Papers were processed by Judy Chou and Emmabeth Nanol between October 2016 and February 2017. Digitized material Selected content from the collection was digitized from 2014 to 2019 and is ongoing. Digital content is available online: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2014m6 Scope and Content of Collection The collection covers The Kitchen's activities from its founding in 1971 through 2011. Consisting of over 5000 separate video and audio recordings, artist and marketing files, and nearly 300 original posters designed by artists such as Sol LeWitt, Robert Longo, Barbara Kruger, Kiki Smith, and Gran Fury, it documents the rich history of experimental performance and video art produced in New York City during the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, including major works by Merce Cunningham, Nam June Paik, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Mike Kelley, David Tudor, and Yvonne Rainer. Arrangement note Collection is arranged in 3 series: Series I. Audiovisual materials, 1967-2005, undated; Series II. Papers, 1971-2011, bulk 1971-1999; Series III. Posters, 1972-1977. Finding aid for The Kitchen 2014.M.6 3 videos and records, 1971-2011 (bulk 1971-1999) Series I.Audiovisual materials 1967-2005, undated Series I. Audiovisual materials 1967-2005, undated Physical Description: 226.0 Linear Feet(226 boxes) Scope and Content Note The Kitchen professionally videotaped nearly every performance it hosted, and produced audio recordings for most major concerts. From its founding in 1971 the institution fully embraced the emerging field of video art, regularly screening its recorded performances as well as video art works. By the 1980s The Kitchen also began producing cable television programming, and by the 1990s original programming for its website, the Electronic Cafe, was being produced as well. The audiovisual series of The Kitchen archive comprises over 5000 separate recordings documenting the institution's rich performance and screening history. Some works have been assembled to form compilation tapes, while parts of other performances and events are scattered among various tapes or reels. Title information, dates, attributions, associated names and all other data were encoded from an inventory provided by The Kitchen. Formats included in this series are: Betacam SP; 3/4 Inch U-Matic; 1/4 Inch audio tape reels; Betacam; digital Betacam; 1/2 Inch Open Reel; 1 Inch Open Reel; 2 Inch Open Reel; VHS; AC; 16 mm film; MiniDV; Betamax; Digital audio tape; DVCam; Video8; Hi8. Audio and video recordings are unavailable until reformatted. Offsite material may require additional retrieval time; contact reference for information. Some audiovisual material is currently available for on-site use only. Arrangement This series is arranged in chronological order with undated material filed at the end of the series. All data was provided by The Kitchen. Copies were identified by the cataloger based on redundant description, but have not been verified. Titles are transcribed from the physical media and may not reflect actual content. The Kitchen assigned unique item identifiers beginning with the letter K to most of the recordings. For items missing "K" numbers, the Getty assigned unique identifiers beginning with the letters GK. Some digitized content was assigned a GK number because their analog counterpart cannot yet be identified or was originally misidentified. The digital files transferred from The Kitchen were renamed for access according to Getty filenaming protocol. However, the original filenames and directories provide extended description that is in some cases not included in the finding aid and in other cases has been determined to be inaccurate. The crosswalk of original filepaths and Getty access filenames is available for download here . Apple Eaters 1967, 1971 Box 110, item 2/5: Sandy Roskowitz, Lynne Mayo, Olga Adorno, Hans Fleishner, John Darrel, K2001392 Sabine Domel, Charles Atlas, Gianfranco Mantegna, 1967 February 4 Scope and Content Note Artists: Anne Tardos. Notes from The Kitchen: No original master in collection. Running time: 9:25. Other copy: K2001412. Box 110, item Monitor 4 out of 5, 1971 K2001395 Scope and Content Note Artists: Anne Tardos. Notes from The Kitchen: No original master in collection. Running time: 14:19. Other copy: K2001413. Box 110, item With Titles, Monitor 5 of 5, 1971 K2001396 Scope and Content Note Artists: Anne Tardos. Notes from The Kitchen: No original master in collection. Running time: 23:04. Other copy: K2001411. Finding aid for The Kitchen 2014.M.6 4 videos and records, 1971-2011 (bulk 1971-1999) Series I.Audiovisual materials 1967-2005, undated Box 121, item Untitled, 1969 June 13 K2001681 Scope and Content Note Artists: Donna Rizzo; Erin Martin; Kei Takei; Carmen. Running time: 1:03:23. Return to Patagonia, 1969 June 30 Box 110, 111, Return to Patagonia, 1969 June 30 152, item Scope and Content Note K2001148 Artists: Jim Burton; Robert Stearns. Running time: 32:00. Other copies: K2000536; K2001691. Box 108, 119, Tape 1, 1969 June 30 item K2001682 Scope and Content Note Artists: Jim Burton; Robert Stearns.