On view now in our Video Viewing Room 🎥 ”Gestures Investigating the Good and Not So Good In Relationships – As Shown to Us By Blondell Cummings”⁠ ⁠ In their collaborative project Gestures Investigating the Good and Not So Good In Relationships, A.J. McClenon and Katherine Simóne Reynolds take cues from the gestural choreographic work of Blondell Cummings demonstrated in her [1989 performance](http://archive.thekitchen.org/?p=8193) at The Kitchen, which included excerpts from her work Relationships: Good and Not So Good, a work-in-progress titled For J.B., and her piece 3B49.⁠ ⁠ McClenon and Reynolds present a series of somatic, gestural narratives on “how to” live a domestic Black life, captured via performances staged for the camera in publicly private spaces. Thinking of the complications of interpersonal relationships and the way that language can fail us in these exchanges, the artists work through a lens of anti-articulation by offering an improvisational, movement-based score for responding to a series of relational scenarios. Link in bio to check out this Kitchen Onscreen feature ✨⁠ ⁠ --⁠ ⁠ Image Credits: 1) Video Excerpt of Katherine Simóne Reynolds in Gestures Investigating the Good and Not So Good In Relationships “How To Apologize, 2) Video Still of A.J. McClenon, “How to Perform against a Black Background”, 3) A.J. McClenon, Inspirited by For J.B. & 3B49, 2022. Collage Image.