An interview with Legacy Russell, chief curator at The Kitchen, about her new book ‘Black Meme: A History of the Images That Make Us.’
What is “good taste” anyway? Allow your favorite actor, musician, celebrity, or comedian to let you in on what they’re watching, reading, and consuming.. Russell — a 2023 Center for Curatorial Leadership fellow — is currently chief curator at the Kitchen, a leading experimental and avant-garde art institution that is based in Chelsea but currently operating in a satellite space in the West Village. Four years ago, she released her first book,, to wide acclaim.
Reading and dancing are the two things that would be top of mind. I listen to all different sorts of music, so I typically just enjoy being out in the world, and when there is music playing, I love dancing. I love dancing at home with my beautiful kid. When I think about this idea of doing anything on repeat, I’m seeing it through the lens of a durational performance to the point of the Kitchen and its focus.
As a native New Yorker, with my father’s family from Harlem and having grown up downtown, I’ve spent a lot of time inside of different institutions and different spaces like the Kitchen and P.S. 122 — which is now a performance space — and locations like Joe’s Pub and Dixon Place, and Theater for the New City. These locations have been meaningful to me as part of a broader itinerary of New York over time. Certainly, not all in one day, but definitely spaces that I continue to return to.
A lot of people are bemoaning the death of internet culture — there are too few websites to explore, too many paywalls and bots. Which sites are still part of your daily browsing routine? Which websites do you miss? When would you say you first started archiving websites like that? Did it come from a fear of those no longer existing anymore?
I don’t think I necessarily have a blanket approach to how I approach projects. Number one, as a guiding principle, is that I am engaged in collaboration with the artists that I’m working with, and we shape what a vision can look like together. Spaces change; you can have the same room presented in a thousand different ways, and that really is what exhibition-making is, and also what performance does. It transforms the site as a location as well as a site of imagination.
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