Montez Press Radio "Sobremesa: Archiving Performance, Performing Archives" graphic presented by The Kitchen. Courtesy of Montez Press Radio.

The Kitchen x Montez Press Radio

Sobremesa: Archiving Performance, Performing Archives

On View: June 29-September 30, 2023

Broadcast Live on radio.montezpress.com

Time:

Various Dates

Sobremesa: Archiving Performance, Performing Archives

What is a performance archive? What are its limits if any of a movement-based, time-based archive? What do we at The Kitchen think of as a performance archive? What are the series guests’ definitions of a performance archive, and the infrastructures and value systems within?

The focus of this series explores the theme of Archiving Performance in dialogue with The Kitchen’s community, expanding the mission and intergenerational vision of our archive, stewarded in the care of artists and cultural preservation, especially in the context of time-based media, and in alternative sectors of arts beyond academic or museum-based archives. How do we capture, discuss, debate the nuances of ephemeral experience, and what can the archive help us formulate?

A three-part radio series broadcast on Montez Press Radio and co-presented by The Kitchen across June, July, and September 2023 moderated by Alex Waterman, Archivist, The Kitchen and Angelique Rosales Salgado, Curatorial Assistant.

This radio series is organized as part of The Kitchen x Montez Press Radio's 12-month Residency.

A conversation with Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Colette Denali Montoya, and Flavia Rando from Lesbian Herstory Archives. Hosted by Alex Waterman, Archivist, and Angelique Rosales Salgado, Curatorial Assistant.

Organized in collaboration with Mac Jackson, Summer 2023 Archive and Curatorial Research Intern.

Date: Live on September 7, 2023, 7 pm from 46 Canal St. Free and Open to the Public and Broadcast live on radio.montezpress.com

Future segment updates forthcoming.

"Sobremesa: Archiving Performance, Performing Archives with Lesbian Herstory Archives" graphic, presented by The Kitchen. Courtesy of Montez Press Radio.

Sobremesa: Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Colette Denali Montoya, and Flavia Rando

A conversation with academic and performance studies scholar Diana Taylor, and writer, artist and performer Malik Gaines. Hosted by Alex Waterman, Archivist, and Angelique Rosales Salgado, Curatorial Assistant.

Date: Live on July 31, 2023, 7 pm from 46 Canal St. Broadcast live on radio.montezpress.com

"Sobremesa: Archiving Performance, Performing Archives with Diana Taylor and Malik Gaines" graphic, presented by The Kitchen. Courtesy of Montez Press Radio.

Sobremesa: Malik Gaines and Diana Taylor

FUNDING SUPPORT & CREDITS

The Kitchen’s programming is supported by grants from The Amphion Foundation, Inc., Arison Art Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Ford Foundation, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc., The Willem de Kooning Foundation, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Open Society Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Simons Foundation, and Teiger Foundation; and in part by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Season programming is made possible in part with support from The Kitchen’s Board of Directors and The Kitchen Leadership Fund. Learn more about the [Leadership Fund](https://thekitchen.org/leadership-fund/).

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