Cory Arcangel and Olia Lialina, Asymmetrical Response (Installation View), via Art Observed

Since 2003, artists Cory Arcangel and Olia Lialina have held an ongoing dialogue on contemporary practice, politics and the web, exploring their shared experiences in the early years of broadly accessible internet culture, and the often obscured histories that the era’s technologies and sites (GeoCities, early Javascript, etc.) held.  Working together for the first time, the artist’s have embarked on Asymmetrical Response, an exhibition at The Kitchen that feels like equally like historical research and contemporary study, engaging with a distinct era of internet culture while serving as an elaboration and examination on the conditions that have ultimately played out on the stage of American politics this year. (more…)

Joan Jonas, They Came to Us Without a Word II (2015), via Art Observed

This week, Joan Jonas returned to The Kitchen to present They Came to Us Without a Word,” a reprisal and reimagining of her work from the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale last year.   Working closely with a group of schoolchildren, and featuring a live score by her longtime collaborator Jason Moran, the show takes her initial project, and moves it closer towards a standalone stage production, dwelling on her interests in fragmented media, interrelated histories and meanings, and human understandings of the world.   (more…)

Aki Sasamoto, Sunny in the Furnace, via Aki Sasamoto

Late this week, amid the hustle and bustle of Armory Week in New York, The Kitchen will open artist Aki Sasamoto’s newest performance, Sunny in the Furnace, running from March 6th to the 8th in the organization’s theatre space.  Incorporating Sasamoto’s playful, intricate series of object-oriented encounters and reflections, the work will see her expand her practice onto a larger scale, incorporating the work of fellow artists Sam Ekwurtzel, Jessica Weinstein, Pau Atela, and Madeline Best, as well as live music by percussionist John Bollinger. taking Sasamoto’s recurring focus on memory and material to new levels of complexity.

Aki spoke with Art Observed this past week to preview her show, and talk a bit about her personal creative process. (more…)

Longstanding New York arts institution The Kitchen is still recovering from the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy last November.  While the space was able to reopen by the end of November, the organization is still scrambling to cover the losses suffered during the storm, including damages to speakers, lighting fixtures, electronics, and the theatre stage.    (more…)

Liz Magic Laser has been chosen as the commissioned artist for the 2013 edition of The Armory Show, which celebrates the centennial year of its namesake exhibition of 1913. Laser’s performance and theatrical work has been presented at the Malmö Konsthall, the Performa 11 Biennial, The Kitchen and MoMA PS1. Laser will help create the visual identity of the 2013 fair, which takes place from March 7–10th, 2013. (more…)

Image: Elad Lassry, Untitled (Presence), 2012

Elad Lassry‘s new show, Untitled (Presence), is on view at The Kitchen through October 20th. The solo exhibition includes 20 new photographs, a short run of performances featuring members of The American Ballet Theatre and The New York City Ballet, as well as a short 16 mm abstract film projected onto the wall. The exhibition was preceded by Lassry’s billboard, Women (065, 055), which appeared along the Highline Park as part of its ongoing series of work by various artists. The 25 x 75 foot-work at 18th street and 10th avenue was on view for a month until the show’s opening at the Kitchen on September 7th.
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Leslie Hewitt Riffs on Real Time (7 of 10), 2008 via Leslie Hewitt

In On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance currently exhibited at The Kitchen, Rashida Bumbray presents selections from three diverse bodies of Leslie Hewitt’s photographs: A Series of Projections from 2010, Midday from 2009, and Riffs on Real Time from 2008, in addition to a new film installation created in collaboration with experimental cinematographer Bradford Young. Pieces from multiple bodies of work may seem inharmonious at first, but spend more time and the conversations of perception, narrative, and undertones of politics running through the room become more apparent.

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An excerpt of an earlier collaborative performance at The New Museum’s Younger Than Jesus show

On November 20th, ArtObserved attended a Performa event that was unlike many others. The evening started out engulfed in the crowd of stylish audiences, which noisily filled the small entrance lobby and occasionally poured out onto the sidewalk for a smoke or some air. As many languages resonated across miniature gallery, anticipation seemed to rise to a crecendo. Needless to say, The Kitchen filled to capacity.

The artist, a young French native who is now based in Berlin, shuffled in and out of the performance space beyond the large black doors. Hurried, yet composed, he let escape an occasional smile to the public.

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