On View: April 12
The Kitchen at Westbeth (163B Bank Street, 4th Floor Loft)
Time:
Doors open at 12pm. Music event from 12:30pm–1:30pm, followed by post-performance activities until 3pm.
On April 12, The Kitchen and Artists and Mothers welcomes families with children of all ages to attend “Music + Meditation,” an open house workshop on the occasion of Lisa Alvardo: Shape of Artifact Time at The Kitchen. Inspired by Alvarado’s gradual paths of transition - the movement of the sunlight and shadow throughout the day, the generational movements within the earth transforming minerals, elements, and landscapes - “Music + Meditation” will include a musical performance by Alvarado and composer and musician Joshua Abrams along with guided meditation and shadow drawings engaging with the exhibition’s visual and sonic environment led by Bridget Johnson, Manager of Education and Interpretive Media.
Doors open at 12pm. Musical performance will take place approximately between 12:30pm - 1:30pm, followed by post-performance reflection, drawing exercise, and guided meditation. Visitors are welcome to come at any time.
ACCESS NOTES
Please Note: Children must be accompanied by an adult. This program will take place in our loft that is currently installed with artwork that hangs from the ceiling and is arranged in sand compositions on the floor. Inside this installation is a surround sound audio piece that includes bells, strings, and sonic atmospheric noise. The loft space has twenty-five large windows to provide natural light across the whole gallery.
Entry: RSVP is encouraged and admission is not guaranteed without RSVP. There are stairs or ramp access to an open door marked with The Kitchen's name, behind which there is an elevator accessible to the public. The elevator enters directly into the loft. The gallery will remain open for public gallery hours until 6p after the program. Entry and re-entry is permitted at any time, dependent on capacity, during which the exhibition will remain on view. Seating: Benches are installed in the gallery space. Seating option available upon request. Duration: Musical performance will take place approximately between 12:30pm - 1:30pm, followed by post-performance reflection, drawing exercise, and guided meditation. Visitors are welcome to come at any time.
Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to the Bank street courtyard. Restroom: There are two single restrooms onsite. Restrooms and resting spaces are gender neutral but are not ADA accessible. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. This bathroom will be available from 12-3pm.
PLEASE READ COVID REMINDER: Masks are strongly encouraged. If you are feeling sick, please stay home. Thank you for your cooperation and commitment to keeping our community safe.
If you have any questions specific to access needs please contact boxoffice@thekitchen.org if you require additional support.
How To Get To 163 Bank Street: It is a ~10 minute journey on foot and a ~5 minute car ride from both the 14th Street A/C/E subway station (the station has elevator access) as well as the 14th Street 1 train subway station to Westbeth. It is a ~5 minute journey on foot from the M20 bus stop of 8 Av/Bleecker Street and a ~10 minute walk from the Christopher Street Path Train Station.
About Lisa Alvarado
Lisa Alvarado (b. 1982, San Antonio, TX) is an artist and musician based in Chicago. Her practice gravitates towards creative traditions of overcoming and exuberant forms of resilience. She plays harmonium in the band Natural Information Society and uses her free-hanging paintings as mobile stage sets for their performances. Alvarado’s perspective is rooted in the under-represented American history of the Chicanx/ Mexican American diaspora. Her recent solo exhibitions include Spiral Yellow at The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2024); Spinning Echo at Bridget Donahue, New York (2023); Lisa Alvarado / MATRIX 192 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford (2023); Pulse Meridian Foliation at RedCat, Los Angeles (2023). She has been included in the recent group exhibitions Resonant Earth at the Moody Center for the Arts, Houston (2024); Calling at Kunstverein Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2023); Contemporary Cartographies at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville (2023); File Under Freedom at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2022); Whitney Biennial : Quiet As It’s Kept at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2022). Alvarado played harmonium on ten albums released on Eremite, Aguirre, and Drag City records. She has recently performed at Inhotim Museum, Brazil (2024); Knockdown Center, New York (2024); Le Guess Who Festival, Utrecht (2023); Jazzfest Berlin, Germany (2023); Pioneer Works, New York (2023); Jazz em Agosto, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2023); Jazztopad, Poland (2022); Vision Festival, New York (2022); Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago (2022).
About Joshua Abrams
Joshua Abrams is a composer, bassist, and improviser. His early formative musical experiences include performing in a chamber group conducted by Earle Brown, and busking on the streets of Philadelphia as an original member of The Roots. Since the mid-1990s, Abrams has been a key figure in Chicago’s creative music communities and an international touring musician across genres. Since 2010 Joshua Abrams has performed and recorded his compositions in the context of Natural Information Society (NIS). NIS represents a convergence of musicians & artists to create sonic harbor, meditative space & kinetic momentum music. Working the seams between minimalism, jazz & experimental practice, the group has become a reference for contemporary non-idiomatic creative music. The band has recorded seven albums for eremite records including Since Time Is Gravity, two collaborations with Bitchin Bajas for Drag City Records and toured extensively in North America, Europe & Brazil. Abrams has also worked extensively with artists including Fred Anderson, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Ari Brown, Hamid Drake, Theaster Gates, Sam Prekop, Nicole Mitchell, Jeff Parker, Mike Reed & Matana Roberts. Abrams scored the music for ten feature films including Life Itself, Abacus: Small Enough To Jail and The Trials of Muhammad Ali. He currently collaborates with Chad Taylor in the duo Mind Maintenance, serves as the musical director of The Harvest Time Experiment & is a member of Hamid Drake’s ensemble Turiya Honoring Alice Coltrance. Abrams was a 2018 Grants for Artist recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
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