Winter 2012 WINTER 2012 PROGRAMS-AT-A-GLANCE WINTER 2012 PROGRAMS-AT-A-GLANCE (Cont'd)
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STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS Tim Griffin, Executive Director and Philip Glass, Chairman Chief Curator Chris Ahearn, President Melissa Schiff Soros, Vice-President Keith Ashby, Building Maintenance Molly Davies, Vice-Chairman Liam Kaas-Lentz, Technical Director Greg S. Feldman, Treasurer Samara Davis, Curatorial Fellow Douglas A. Hand, Secretary Matthew Lyons, Curator Robert Soros, Chairman Emeritus Jason Martin, Development Manager Justin Neal, Marketing Director Laurie Anderson Kerry Scheidt, Associate Director Matt Apfel Debra Singer, Adjunct Curator Sukey Cáceres Novogratz Center for video, music, dance, performance, film, and literature Ramsay Stirling II, Media and Technology Judith L. Church Manager Bryce Dessner Lumi Tan, Assistant Curator Matthew Doull Zack Tinkelman, Lighting Supervisor Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo Neal Medlyn & Gillian Walsh, Box Office Zach Feuer Adrienne Truscott, Laura Sheedy, Charlotte Ford Nancy Kim House Managers Julie Graham Camila Barcelos, Marianka Campisi, Scott M. Lawin Mika Gellman, Caitlin Gleason, Marla J. Mayer Cecile Janvier, Ingrid Kwon, Meredith Monk Beatrice Rocchi Interns Nico Muhly Catherine Orentreich CONSULTANTS Benjamin Palmer Paula Court, House Photographer Matthew Ritchie Nicole Fix, Financial Services Tracey Ryans John Migliore, Archivist Willard B. Taylor Iki Nakagawa, Carmine Covelli, and Mila Tuttle Jonathan Gabel, Video Documentation Blake Zidell & Associates, DIRECTOR EMERITUS Press Consultants Arthur Fleischer, Jr. ADVISORY BOARD Melissa Feldman Alfred Gillio Kenneth Goldsmith Nick Hallett Ralph Lemon Sarah Michelson Stephen Vitiello Joanna Yas Yasuko Yokoshi Visit TheKitchen.org Facebook facebook.com/TheKitchenNYC Twitter twitter.com/TheKitchen_NYC Check-in on foursquare Winter 2012 WINTER 2012 PROGRAMS-AT-A-GLANCE WINTER 2012 PROGRAMS-AT-A-GLANCE (cont'd) Jay Scheib: World of Wires Neal Medlyn: Wicked Clown Love Robert Beavers on Markopoulos and the Temenos provisional relationships she sets up between the Friday–Sunday, January 6–8, 8pm Thursday–Saturday, February 2–4, 8pm Monday, March 12, 7pm architecture and her materials. Thursday–Saturday, January 12–14 and 19–21, 8pm Tickets: $15 FREE Tickets: $20 Neal Medlyn’s latest is built around the music of Filmmaker Robert Beavers presents an evening of Reeling from the reality of people living their lives the Insane Clown Posse (ICP) and the worldwide short films by Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928–92). Instrumentals inside of machines,World of Wires is Jay Scheib’s opaque brother and sisterhood of the Juggalos. Beavers’s selection of films, including Swain, Ming Friday–Saturday, March 23–24, 8pm new adaptation of Welt am Draht,filmmaker Rainer The show will revolve around Medlyn’s dark spec- Green, Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill, Tickets: $15 Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 science-fiction television ter versions of ICP songs, male bonding activities, Sorrows, and Gilbert & George, reveals Markopou- Program 1, March 23: William Basinski and series. The play is an all-bets-are-off homage to the flashlight wrestling, terror and horror, face paint, los’s various approaches to the film-portrait, a Tristan Perich startling possibility that you too might actually really underground Midwestern horror rap, Faygo show- genre that he developed in relation to his films of Program 2, March 24: Arthur Russell's Instrumentals be ones and zeroes in someone else’s immaculately ers, clown love, and much more. Greek myth and films of place in his monumental and Mary Halvorson programmed world. final work, Eniaios (1947–1991). The Kitchen dips into the Music Program archive and extends its envelope-pushing legacy to a new An Evening with Amanda Loulaki and Levi Gonzalez generation with this weekend of shared double Simone Leigh: You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Thursday–Saturday, February 9–11, 8pm An Evening with Ugly Duckling Presse: bills. Featuring composers William Basinski and Has Been Tickets: $15 Emergency INDEX Tristan Perich on Friday evening followed up on January 18–March 11 Curated by Yasuko Yokoshi Tuesday, March 20, 7pm Saturday with Mary Halvorson and her septet, with Opening Reception, Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm Choreographers Amanda Loulaki and Levi Gonza- FREE Arthur Russell collaborator and fellow composer FREE lez share an evening premiering two new works. Ugly Duckling Presse presents the inaugural edi- Peter Gordon who will conduct a new reading for This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere Amanda Loulaki’s solo work explores the ways that tion of Emergency INDEX. This annual print pub- Russell’s Instrumentals. of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural explora- the experience of fragmented time through imag- lication features descriptions of new performance tions of materiality, women’s work, and Afrofutur- ery and the body can reconstruct reality. Levi Gon- in the words of its creators, allowing makers who ism. Leigh is known for her archaic, anthropo- zalez creates a solo for dancer Natalie Green, in focus on those problems driving each work and the Optipus Laboratory morphic forms in porcelain, terracotta, tobacco, which he “performs” the role of director onstage tactics used to address them. At this launch event, Organized by Bradley Eros glass, and steel that employ early African ceramic to make transparent the tension and intimacy of the editors have curated a night of performances Friday–Saturday, March 30–31, 8pm techniques to evoke contemporary parallels and the relationships among choreographer, performer, during which choreographers, theater directors, Tickets: $12 underlying social and economic conditions. and audience in live performance. playwrights, and performance artists react to and A weekend of live cinema, sound work, ephemeral elaborate in real time on documents from the projections, and live soundtracks. Organized by pages of INDEX 2012. Bradley Eros, Friday features audio-visual experi- The Varieties of Performance Experience: Missy Mazzoli: Song from the Uproar—The Lives & menters Gill Arno, Jonas Asher, Lea Bertucci, MV A panel discussion with authors Judith Rodenbeck and Deaths Of Isabelle Eberhardt Carbon, Eros, Victoria Keddie, and Lary Seven. Shannon Jackson, joined by Pablo Helguera, André Friday–Saturday, February 24–25, 8pm An Evening with The New Inquiry Saturday, Optipus—an NYC media collective Lepecki, Frazer Ward, and Marianne Weems Thursday–Saturday, March 1–3, 8pm Tuesday, March 27, 7pm composed of Eros, Keddie, and Seven, plus Tuesday, January 24, 7pm Tickets: $15 FREE Katherine Bauer, Tim Geraghty, Rachael Guma, FREE This multimedia opera premiere by celebrated The New Inquiry—an electronic journal of literary Sarah Halpern, Jay Hudson, Rachelle Rahme, and The publication of two new books by Shannon Jack- Brooklyn composer Missy Mazzoli is a unique and cultural criticism—will celebrate the release Pancho—present an evening of works. son and Judith Rodenbeck provide an opportunity combination of live musical performance and of its second issue Youth. The evening will include for a conversation about the possibilities and perils original films, inspired by the life and writings of a screening of the 1968 film youth-power exploita- of performance as an aesthetic and social practice. early- 20th-century explorer Isabelle Eberhardt. tion classic Wild in the Streets, to be followed by An Evening with Douglas Crimp: Including in this evening’s panel are Pablo Hel- With filmmaker Stephen Taylor, librettist Royce a panel discussion with the journal’s editors and “Our Kind of Movie”—The Films of Andy Warhol guera, André Lepecki, Frazer Ward, and Marianne Vavrek, stage director Gia Forakis, and NOW En- special guests. Monday, April 2, 7pm Weems. semble with mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer and a FREE vocal ensemble of some of NYC's finest singers. With “Our Kind of Movie” Douglas Crimp offers Virginia Overton the first single-authored book about the full range An Evening with Martha Colburn, Sean Lennon, March 21–May 6 of Andy Warhol’s films in forty years—and the first Greg Saunier Pam Tanowitz: Untitled (The Blue Ballet) Opening Reception, Wednesday, March 21, 6–8pm since the films were put back into circulation. With Friday–Saturday, January 27–28, 8pm Thursday–Saturday, March 8–10, 8pm FREE readings from the book and screenings of films, Tickets: $15 Tickets: $15 Curated by Matthew Lyons Crimp shows us how Warhol’s inventive cinema This New York trio of improvisers includes Martha Curated by Sarah Michelson In her works in sculpture and installation, Virginia techniques, his collaborative working methods, and Colburn, Sean Lennon, and Greg Saunier. With Choreographer Pam Tanowitz collaborates with Overton employs readily available or repurposed his superstars’ unique capabilities make visible nearly psychedelic intensity, recent performances renowned new music ensemble FLUX Quartet, building materials as well as common found new, queer forms of sociality. have featured Colburn manipulating clips drawn from putting her new choreography to avant-garde imagery in reaction to the particular conditions her own animated films and vérité documentation composer Morton Feldman's challenging String of the exhibition space and its environs. She has of street events; Lennon brandishing his guitar in a Quartet #1. Featuring Sasha Dmochowski, Jean developed a sculptural vocabulary that uses and For full show descriptions and tickets visit: fashion that might surprise those more familiar with Freebury, John Heginbotham, Brian Reeder, and reuses these materials and images. While the work thekitchen.org his delicate