Public Talks as part of The Kitchen's Sidney Kahn Summer Institute

As part of the annual Sidney Kahn Summer Institute (June 7-25), The Kitchen presents three public talks in which artists at the forefront of site-specific installation and performance speak about their work.

June 16 (Wed): Performances in Public Space: Four Distinct Aesthetics and Strategies
MARTHA BOWERS, STEPHAN KOPLOWITZ, TAMAR ROGOFF,
MARY ELLEN STROM (panelists), with ELISE BERNHARDT (moderator)

WHERE: THE KITCHEN, 512 West 19th Street, NYC
(Between 10th & 11th Avenues)

TIME: All talks are at 7pm

PRICE: $12 each/$25 for all three

On June 16 (Wednesday), Elise Bernhardt, Executive Director of The Kitchen, invites four artists whose site-specific performances have had a profound impact on their surrounding communities to show filmed excerpts of their work and discuss their creative process. The panel, which is entitled Performances in Public Space: Four Distinct Aesthetics and Strategies, includes Martha Bowers, whose community-based projects in Red Hook have aided in the urban renewal of that neighborhood; Stephan Koplowitz, whose large scale works with dancers have transformed the windows of Grand Central Terminal and the grand steps of New York buildings; Tamar Rogoff, whose Ivye Project involved a village in Belarus that was forever changed by the Holocaust; and Mary Ellen Strom, whose collaborative projects have included video projections on everything from grain silos to the mountains of Montana.

For more information visit www.thekitchen.org or call 212.255.5793 x11