dreamt up the School for Temporary Liveness in Philadelphia with Donna Faye Burchfield in 2018. Since then she has been iterating and devising the School across various contexts with friends and accomplices. Lauren is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her dissertation project considers the rendering of lesbian sex and erotics in minor archives of performance, film, and scenes of social life from the 1970s to the present. Lauren was a 2023-24 Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellow in Lesbian Studies at Yale University. Her article, “Erotic City: Slipping into the Clit Club’s Lesbian Surround,” is forthcoming in a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review. Lauren's performance works have been presented by The Kitchen, Danspace Project, the Chocolate Factory, Pioneer Works, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, SculptureCenter, and the Drawing Center, among other spaces. Her chapbook, more problems with form or, desire notes or, still woman, was published by Wendy's Subway. Lauren regularly teaches seminars in dance and performance studies, contemporary art, and gender & sexuality studies and has previously taught at The Cooper Union, University of the Arts, University of Pennsylvania, and Rutgers University. Lauren is devoted to the lifeworlds of experimental performance.

@s.arai__ is a Bessie nominated lighting designer, technical producer, and artist born and raised in New York City. Her work spans performance art exploring the presence of black, disappearing, and isolated bodies through light. She is currently curating a series of workshops at PSNY for technicians that emphasizes community, collaboration, and professional development, with a particular focus on sharing resources to marginalized communities.

is an artist, performer and teacher based in New York City. Niall constructs immersive, liminal sites that attend to sensual, collective registers of fiction, dis/order, dis/placement and in/completeness. And he dances through a constellation of curiosities, obsessions and practices destabilized by performance, sound, text, photography and video.

has worked in NYC with Half Straddle, Adrienne Truscott, Alex Tatarsky, Sibyl Kempson, Jim Findlay, David Byrne, Andrew Ondrejcak, Mike Iveson, Erin Markey, Suzanne Bocanegra, and Young Jean Lee. She is also the Associate Artistic Director and Stage Manager for Elevator Repair Service Theater Company. She loves working at The Kitchen (most recently with Dance and Process 2024) and is excited to return for this program.

has organized numerous exhibitions and performance projects at The Kitchen with a wide range of artists since 2005. In 2024, he curated the exhibition "Robert Indiana: The Sweet Mystery," an official collateral event of the Venice Biennial. His writing has appeared in Mousse Magazine, Movement Research Performance Journal, and Document Journal, among others.

is a Detroit-born visual artist and set designer living in Brooklyn, New York. This artist transforms spaces into whimsical landscapes. He manipulates objects & organic material to evoke a sense of childlike wonder. Devanté’s work leans towards the fantastical & aims to spark imagination and rekindle the magic of the natural world.

is an experimental broadcasting and performance platform founded in 2018, with the goal of fostering greater experimentation and conversation between artists, writers, and thinkers through the medium of radio. This platform invites different corners of the art world to interact with each other in person and on air—a place where media finally meets flesh. Montez Press Radio is drawn to art that exists in the unexpected, the authenticity of sharing without a script, the sounds of ideas in the making, conversation that forgets there’s an audience. All of its in-studio broadcasts are free and open to the public. Montez Press Radio’s archive is an ongoing auditory document of Montez Press Radio’s existence. It is not designed to reflect the ingenuity of postproduction, but rather serves as a catalogue of rough cuts which contain all the small glitches, false starts, and awkward silences that are intrinsic to our process of live recording and running an event space. Montez Press Radio is as much a radio broadcast as it is a reflection of particular moments in time.

is a producer, curator, and multimedia artist who works across video, performance, and installation. At The Kitchen he has overseen exhibitions by Lisa Alvarado and Harmony Holiday, and performances by JJJJJerome Ellis and Joy Guidry. From 2018-2023, he worked at The Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. As producer, he contributed to exhibitions by Morgan Bassichis, Naima Green, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Rashid Johnson, and many others. As curator of performance, he organized the performance residency Test Pattern, which invited artists such as Holland Andrews, Anh Vo, Brontez Purnell, and Moor Mother to use the ICA Auditorium as a TV production studio; and ICA Live, which featured musicians Angel Bat Dawid, Lucrecia Dalt, Nadah El Shazly, and Aja Monet. As a freelance video producer, he has collaborated with a long list of artists, arts organizations, and music labels, including Holly Herndon, Mika Tajima, Mexican Summer, and MOCA TV. He has performed or exhibited at MoMA/PS1, The New Museum, The Museum of Arts and Design, Recess, and Basilica Hudson.

(Ciudad de México, México) is a curator and writer based in New York. Their curatorial, research, and creative practice is grounded in queer study, and focuses on performance, experimental dance, collective work, and time-based media. They have curated, produced, co-organized, and supported numerous exhibitions, commissions, live works, online programs, and artistic projects. Their written work, essays, and interviews have been published in Jupiter Magazine, BOFFO, Mousse Magazine, Performance Space New York, Institute for Studies in Latin America (ISLAA), Kitchen Magazine, and Studio Magazine. Select projects include PROTECT THE PEACE: we, INSURGENT (2024, The Kitchen), JJJJJerome Ellis: Aster of Ceremonies (2024, The Kitchen), NIC Kay: The last gasp of the angry yt man (2024, Dia Chelsea), and Christelle Oyiri: OBLIMEMBER (2023, The Kitchen, Video Viewing Room); recent exhibitions are Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art (2024-2025, The Kitchen, with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit), Harmony Holiday: BLACK BACKSTAGE (2024, The Kitchen), and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy: Filling Station (2023, The Kitchen). Currently, they are assistant curator at The Kitchen, and have held curatorial positions at Pioneer Works, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

is a cultural worker and organizer born and raised in New York City. They are currently Production Supervisor at The Kitchen, where they work collaboratively with artists to assist in materializing their creative projects into shared works.

are the graphic design team for STL Vol. 4.