No kidding! This is a moment of crisis! But …

What if the end of the world as we know it is not something that takes place somewhere in time or begins at a certain place? What if the end of the world as we know it is just right there, anywhere, and everywhere, as a hidden dimension?

The Metaphysics of the Elements supports poethical reading as a practice because it gathers and nurtures tools, practices, and propositions that already enact or help in the imagining and enacting of terrestrial existence otherwise than what has prevailed in the past 500 years or so.

In this iteration of The Studio, where the hidden dimension is accessed, we experiment with reading as a correspondence of the element Air. On Reading (Air) elaborates on the capacities attributed to matter when considered through Air. But here materiality is considered in terms of aesthesis, that is, re/de/composition in the intellectual register, in which the abstract (figural and formal) is inseparable from the concrete (actual and material), because indistinguishable when one attends to deep implicancy as the key to existential conditions.

Key here is the correspondence between Air and Aesthesis, as the latter is here employed because — unlike aesthetic, which already obtains the experience (feeling of pleasure) of the beautiful as purely mental — it conveys the inseparability of the corporeal and mental feelings. As we may have the chance to observe/experience, it is not uncommon to have goosebumps while reading the Tarot!

During this reading session the various significations of Air (the invisible, the atmosphere, public exposure, a mode or manner, expression and movement, will guide us to appreciation of existence as implicancy, as when/as each participant enjoys the collaborative modality that is poethical reading. By that I mean, reading as also experimenting with how every time anyone reads that person is reading with all those who have read, are readings as well as will read, with the same figures and format (the Tarot) in a moment of crisis.

ACCESS NOTES:
Entry: Late entry is not guaranteed. 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. Seating: This program is seated via foldable, cushioned chairs in the loft space. We are happy to accommodate and adjust for individuals who require wheelchair access upon request. Duration: The program run-time is about 1.5 hours total. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

Photo: Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman, Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims (still), 2023. Courtesy of the artists.

Bilnaes’s latest musical release, Only sounds that tremble through us is part of the ongoing project from Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth. The album Only sounds that tremble through us is a double LP. The first record features a full album of compositions by Abbas and Abou-Rahme, developed as part of the project between 2022 and 2024, while the second record is an album made up of commissioned compositions by Hiro Kone, Drew McDowall, Makimakkuk, Julmud, Haykal, SCRAAATCH, Muqata’a, Freddie June, and DJ Haram in conversation with the project. 

The wider project begins with a collection of online recordings of unknown figures (mostly from Palestine, Iraq, and Syria) performing through song, music, and dance either in the intimacy of their homes, or on a street, in a square, at a wedding or on a beach having just found refuge. May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth examines the place and significance of voice in the form of song and oral poetry, and body in the form of dance and gesture as a political act of embodiment and becoming in a moment marked by various forms of violence against entire living fabrics. The project repositions these moments as a material witness inscribed through body, movement, rhythm, and voice to the destruction of everyday life that is occurring or has occurred. Equally, it is also one of the most critical ways in which these fractured communities are resisting their own erasure and laying claim to space, self, and community once more. 

For the School for Temporary Liveness, Bilna’es will host a listening session to the two sides of the LP, with the presence of the contributing musicians DJ Haram, SCRAAATCH, Drew McDowall, Hiro Kone, Haykal, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. The session will reflect on the politics of sound and the aesthetics of sampling and borrowing as materialized and conceptualized in the project, inviting participants to spend time in prolonged, collective study with the album, listening and reflecting with the artists who have had an extensive engagement with the wider project.

ACCESS NOTES:
Please note: This listening session may include loud sounds. Earplugs are available at the door. Entry: Late entry is permitted at any time dependent on capacity. 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. Duration: The program run-time is about two hours total. Audiences are welcome to come and go. Seating: This program is seated via foldable, cushioned chairs in the loft space, as well as intermittent seating via couches, gallery benches, and floor cushions. We are happy to accommodate and adjust for individuals who require wheelchair access upon request. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

Photo: Courtesy of the artists.

After Hours Film School presents a screening program about rehearsal, improvisation, and musical and embodied interpretation as forms of collective study. Program details to come.

ACCESS NOTES:
Entry: Please arrive on time to ensure minimal disruption of the filmic presentations. Late entry is not guaranteed. 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. Seating: This program is seated via foldable, cushioned chairs in the loft space. We are happy to accommodate and adjust for individuals who require wheelchair access upon request. Duration: The program run-time is about 1.5 hours total. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.  

PRACTICE!

PROGRESSION of research PRACTICES
my PEOPLE miller, lemon, tanaka, zollar
POST-modern PRACTITIONERS
POP, dip and spin
i come from a line of PREACHERS
speaking in POETICS
repeating with PLAIN LANGUAGE
“…a PHYSICAL LANGUAGE for the human condition”
how do you PLACE it in the body?
what are PRACTICES that allow it to emerge in the body?
PRINCIPLES
PLACE POLITICS in the body
notice how PERSONAL PHILOSOPHIES emerge as we try on
a PEDAGOGY of call and response
POLYATTENTION
PHYSICALITY
PLAY with PARTS of our PERSON
PROPOSITIONS
PERCEIVE
PERIPHERAL what’s around the body
PUPIL where’s the center
POSTERIOR what’s behind us
falling PRACTICE
PROTESTS and PERMUTATIONS of gravity
PERSISTENCE with redirections
acts of PASSIVE resistance
PLAN, PRECARIOUS our choices in dealing with force
PATTERNS of POSITIONALITY
the cultures PROMINENT in the PLACE
POV
PARALLEL-PERPENDICULAR trajectories
PERSISTENCE in PROCESS
PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLES edges of experience to create the appetite for furthering
PSSY / PNK tactics, who to take out
POWER ability to direct or influence the behavior of others/self in the course of events
PARADIGM shift-a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions
observer/PARTICIPANT watch/do

This class inquiry is grounded in my extensive investigation into structures and tactics for training the body to go to the edge of the physical experience.
We’ll practice the extreme moment, movement.
Within reason. Within range. Within context.

ACCESS NOTES:
Please note: This is a physical class that involves moving in space with other bodies and sound. It will encourage going to extreme physical limits, with options to move at your own pace, to step back, rest, and observe. Entry: Please arrive on time so participants can engage in the full range of the workshop. Space is limited. Late entry is not guaranteed. Duration: The program run-time is about 1.5 hours total. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street. 

Photo: Darrell Jones with Ralph Lemon. Courtesy of the artist.

after everything is extracted 
بعد ما استخرج كل شيء
in the lack
بالنقص
in the negative
بالناقص
in zero
بالصفر
in sub in minus in debt
بالأدنى بالسالب بالديْن

This workshop session will highlight themes engaged by Bilna’es as an adisciplinary publishing platform supporting artistic communities in Palestine and beyond. Through collective reading and discussion led by members of Bilna’es and extended collaborators, participants in the workshop session will explore themes of indebtedness and colonial debt and the politics of refusal through the ongoing prisoners’ struggle in Palestine, with a focus on prison literature and art. Prior reading is required.

ACCESS NOTES:
Entry: Please arrive on time so participants can engage in the full range of the workshop. Space is limited. Participatory engagement is encouraged. Late entry is not guaranteed. 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. Duration: The program run-time is about two hours total. Seating: This program is seated via foldable, cushioned chairs in the loft space, as well as intermittent seating via couches, gallery benches, and floor cushions. We are happy to accommodate and adjust for individuals who require wheelchair access upon request. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

Photo: Courtesy of the artists.

Bailes is an experiment in transmission and opening up a dance performance to let a new constellation find its rhythm. Bailes means ‘dances’, but more like La Macarena and salsa than Trio A and Swan Lake. Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen will work with New York based artist Malcolm-x Betts art for ten days leading up to School for Temporary Liveness, transmitting conversations, practices and materials that emerged previously from a series of intimate collaborations, each addressing problems of ‘the family.’ Living within zona de juego, all are invited along for this transmission to linger, rephrase, and situate anew these problematic bailes. 

This experiment is part of a long term research project under the title Domestic Anarchism. Its materials and practices have been developed in a series of collaborations with HaYoung, Alissa Šnaider, Paolo Gile, Emma Daniel, Lisa Schåman and Lauren Bakst.

ACCESS NOTES:
Entry: Entry is permitted at any time dependent on capacity. 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. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Duration: The program run-time is about two hours total. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

Photo: Emma Daniel, Andrea Zavala Folache, and Adriano Wilfert Jensen in Domestic Anarchism (2025). Courtesy of the artists.

In this collective reading and writing session, participants are invited to engage with the publications collected in the inseparable assembly Reading Room. A series of prompts will guide us through experiments in translating form, time, movement, and genre to the page.

ACCESS NOTES:
Entry: Entry is permitted at any time dependent on capacity. 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. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Duration: The program run-time is about two hours total. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

Photo: Wendy's Subway Reading Room at the Brooklyn Academy of Museum, BAM Fisher, Brooklyn, New York, September 2017–January 2018. Photo by Object Studies.

The second session of The Studio is limited to 20 participants.

No kidding! This is a moment of crisis! But …

What if the end of the world as we know it is not something that takes place somewhere in time or begins at a certain place? What if the end of the world as we know it is just right there, anywhere, and everywhere, as a hidden dimension?

The Metaphysics of the Elements supports poethical reading as a practice because it gathers and nurtures tools, practices, and propositions that already enact or help in the imagining and enacting of terrestrial existence otherwise than what has prevailed in the past 500 years or so.

In this iteration of The Studio, where the hidden dimension is accessed, we experiment with reading as a correspondence of the element Air. On Reading (Air) elaborates on the capacities attributed to matter when considered through Air. But here materiality is considered in terms of aesthesis, that is, re/de/composition in the intellectual register, in which the abstract (figural and formal) is inseparable from the concrete (actual and material), because indistinguishable when one attends to deep implicancy as the key to existential conditions.

Key here is the correspondence between Air and Aesthesis, as the latter is here employed because — unlike aesthetic, which already obtains the experience (feeling of pleasure) of the beautiful as purely mental — it conveys the inseparability of the corporeal and mental feelings. As we may have the chance to observe/experience, it is not uncommon to have goosebumps while reading the Tarot!

During this reading session the various significations of Air (the invisible, the atmosphere, public exposure, a mode or manner, expression and movement, will guide us to appreciation of existence as implicancy, as when/as each participant enjoys the collaborative modality that is poethical reading. By that I mean, reading as also experimenting with how every time anyone reads that person is reading with all those who have read, are readings as well as will read, with the same figures and format (the Tarot) in a moment of crisis.

ACCESS NOTES:
Entry: Please arrive on time so participants can engage in the full range of the workshop. Space is limited. Late entry is not permitted. 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. Seating: This program is seated via foldable, cushioned chairs in the loft space. We are happy to accommodate and adjust for individuals who require wheelchair access upon request. Duration: The program run-time is about two hours total. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

Photo: Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman, Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims (still), 2023. Courtesy of the artists.

PRACTICE!

PROGRESSION of research PRACTICES
my PEOPLE miller, lemon, tanaka, zollar
POST-modern PRACTITIONERS
POP, dip and spin
i come from a line of PREACHERS
speaking in POETICS
repeating with PLAIN LANGUAGE
“…a PHYSICAL LANGUAGE for the human condition”
how do you PLACE it in the body?
what are PRACTICES that allow it to emerge in the body?
PRINCIPLES
PLACE POLITICS in the body
notice how PERSONAL PHILOSOPHIES emerge as we try on
a PEDAGOGY of call and response
POLYATTENTION
PHYSICALITY
PLAY with PARTS of our PERSON
PROPOSITIONS
PERCEIVE
PERIPHERAL what’s around the body
PUPIL where’s the center
POSTERIOR what’s behind us
falling PRACTICE
PROTESTS and PERMUTATIONS of gravity
PERSISTENCE with redirections
acts of PASSIVE resistance
PLAN, PRECARIOUS our choices in dealing with force
PATTERNS of POSITIONALITY
the cultures PROMINENT in the PLACE
POV
PARALLEL-PERPENDICULAR trajectories
PERSISTENCE in PROCESS
PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLES edges of experience to create the appetite for furthering
PSSY / PNK tactics, who to take out
POWER ability to direct or influence the behavior of others/self in the course of events
PARADIGM shift-a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions
observer/PARTICIPANT watch/do

This class inquiry is grounded in my extensive investigation into structures and tactics for training the body to go to the edge of the physical experience.
We’ll practice the extreme moment, movement.
Within reason. Within range. Within context.

ACCESS NOTES:
Please note: This is a physical class that involves moving in space with other bodies and sound. It will encourage going to extreme physical limits, with options to move at your own pace, to step back, rest, and observe. Entry: Please arrive on time so participants can engage in the full range of the workshop. Space is limited. Late entry is not guaranteed. Duration: The program run-time is about 1.5 hours total. Restrooms: Our restrooms are gender neutral. An ADA bathroom is available for our guest use in the courtyard, just one door down at Greenwich House Center for Older Adults. Please visit the facilities before entering the elevator to the loft. Exits: The space can be exited via elevator or stairs that take you to Bank street.

Photo: Darrell Jones with Ralph Lemon. Courtesy of the artist.