Apr 6, 2016
This week The Kitchen is pleased to present the North American premiere of Joan Jonas’s acclaimed work They Come to us Without a Word II , which premiered at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale in conjunction with her exhibition for the US Pavilion at last year’s 56th Venice Biennale. Jonas has had a long relationship with The Kitchen, presenting many of her early video pieces here in the early 1970s and later performing several major works, including most recently Lines in the Sand: Helen in Egypt (2004). In 2012, we honored Jonas at our annual gala in celebration of her pioneering work in video and performance. They Come to us Without a Word II features new compositions by Jonas’s longtime collaborator Jason Moran, as well as a live performance by Kate Fenner. Jonas is joined onstage by si... Read On