kitchen

Mandate:
To initiate, develop, and produce new works that challenge boundaries and investigate new forms of cultural-hybridity. We develop projects through a highly collaborative process integrating the respective disciplines of dance, theatre, video, film, installation, writing and music. We strive to create a public forum for cultural activism.

Our goals are:
1. To promote cultural activism, develop a distinct and diverse new voice as multi-disciplined artists.
2. To establish and build relationships with collaborators from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in creating new forms.
3. To produce critical awareness, discourse and build artistic support for cultural-hybridiity and collaboration.
4. To continue development of site-specific storytelling.
5. To reflect the scope and diversity of our work in our audiences and actively expose and challenge myths around audience demographics.

kitchen was formed in 2002 as a collective of diverse artists: Tricia Collins (Theatre, Writing), Aretha Aoki (Dance), Cindy Mochizuki (Visual/Media arts).

We see interdisciplinarity as a fusion of formal genres, the creation of new forms and the cohesion between cultural perspectives and experiences.