The Kitchen's Winter 2015 Season to Feature ANCIENT LIVES, ALL OUR HAPPY DAYS ARE STUPID & More

Since 1971, The Kitchen has served as an important catalyst for a broad community of groundbreaking artists working across disciplines-a mission uniquely attuned to contemporary efforts by artists and arts institutions alike to collaborate and generate new contexts for the continuing evolution of multi-disciplinary art. In fact, as a smaller-scale organization, The Kitchen is unique today for providing artists of both emerging and established statures with a hot-house environment for the presentation and discussion of their work. The Kitchen seeks to foster a vibrant, living dialogue among artists from every field and area of culture. The institution's winter 2015 season, January 7-December 13, exemplifies this commitment.

The winter season opens on with the world premiere of Ancient Lives (January 7-17) by playwright and director Tina Satter and her Obie-award winning company Half Straddle. Developed while in residency at The Kitchen, Satter's seventh full-length piece is a dynamic coming of age play rendered with live music score and video. A particularly rich season of theater continues with the U.S. premiere of All Our Happy Days Are Stupid (February 19-28) by New York Times bestselling novelist Sheila Heti. Declared "unstageable" by the Toronto theatre company who commissioned the work, the play, in a co-presentation with McSweeney's Publishing, includes original music by Dan Bejar (The New Pornographers, Destroyer) and features an eclectic company of artists lead by director Jordan Tannahill. Award-winning playwright and director Richard Maxwell closes the winter season with the New York premiere of The Evening (March 12-28), an innovative exploration of the sculptural possibilities of form and language on stage.

A diverse group of female artists will enliven The Kitchen's 2nd floor space with two stellar exhibitions. The group exhibition No entrance, no exit (January 13-February 21) features the work of Anna K.E, Alina Tenser and Viola Ye?iltaç - three singular artists who each carry a personal relationship to performance. In For You Can Call Me F (March 5- April 11), artist Anicka Yi will transform The Kitchen's gallery into a forensic site. Yi will look at society's growing paranoia around contagion and hygiene (both public and private) with the enduring patriarchal fear of feminism and potency of female networks.

Synth Nights, The Kitchen's series of live electronic music, continues with composer Ben Vida (January 21), who examines the connectivity between machine derived and spoken rhythms; composer and multi-instrumentalist Eli Keszler (February 11), who pushes performance towards installation in his concert; and pioneering electronic composer Morton Subotnick (March 4), best know for his iconic 1976 work Silver Apples of the Moon.

On March 2, The Kitchen is pleased to host a discussion, lead by Douglas Crimp, with video artist and filmmaker Charles Atlas in celebration of his new, self-titled book, which spans four decades of the pioneering artist's career.

Of the upcoming season, Executive Director and Chief Curator Tim Griffin said, "The Kitchen is interested in examining and challenging cultural narratives across every discipline. This season is remarkable in particular for a core group of artists-Tina Satter, Richard Maxwell and Sheila Heti-who push the conventions of theater and, in doing so, tell new stories about the world we live in."

More information on The Kitchen's Fall 2014 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.

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