A new essay by musician, artist, curator and SVA Art History faculty member Nick Hallett has just been published on The Kitchen Onscreen as part of the site's “From the Archives” series, which documents significant moments in the history of the legendary New York multidisciplinary art and performance space The Kitchen.

Here's a description from The Kitchen's most recent newsletter:

In the latest essay published in Kitchen Magazine, musician, artist, and composer Nick Hallett traces The Kitchen’s history of presenting visual music in its space in the Mercer Arts Center from 1971–1973. Highlighting the work of The Kitchen’s founders Steina and Woody Vasulka, the initial team of directors—Shridhar Bapat, Rhys Chatham, and Dimitri Devyaktkin—and a range of other notable artists, Hallett explores the organization’s experimental ethos and the budding collaborative efforts of artists across visual and sonic disciplines during these seminal years.

Accompanying the essay is a range of archival ephemera and media, including excerpts of video work by Shridhar Bapat, Charles Phillips, Dimitri Devyatkin, Walter Wright, and Steina Vasulka, and compositions by Rhys Chatham and Tony Conrad.

You can read Hallett's essay here.