The Kitchen Announces Spring Season

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Joan Jonas’s work at the Venice Biennale in May 2015.Credit Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times

Joan Jonas, whose “They Came to Us Without a Word” at the Venice Biennale last year was seen as a triumph, will bring a version of the work to the Kitchen to open its spring season.

The season, which runs from April 6 through June 11, opens with Ms. Jonas’s “They Come to Us Without a Word II,” from April 6-8. Other programs at the Kitchen, the avant-garde performance and exhibition space in Chelsea, include more visual art, as well as music, dance and theater.

In “They Came to Us Without a Word II,” Ms. Jonas explores themes of nature’s fragility amid rapid change with a mixture of video from the Venice pavilion and live performances. She will be joined by her longtime collaborator, the jazz pianist Jason Moran, who has also been busy uptown with a series of concerts to inaugurate the renovated Veterans Room at the Park Avenue Armory.

Ms. Jonas’s engagement is followed by a series of performances by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, performing concerts inspired by the minimalism, including works by Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Meredith Monk. Charlemagne Palestine joins the group on April 10 for a performance of his hypnotic “Strumming Music.”

Later in the season, the band Xiu Xiu performs music from “Twin Peaks” (April 30), and Mike Iveson, known for his work with the theater company Elevator Repair Service, presents his play “The Tear Drinkers” (May 19-27). Among Mr. Iveson’s collaborators for the production is the video artist Charles Atlas.

Another video artist, Ed Atkins, presents an exhibition about technology and representation in a solo show that runs from April 13 through May 14. Then, the experimental “On Limits: Estrangement in the Everyday” (May 24 through June 11), brings together 20 interdisciplinary artworks related to a wide array of themes, including racism, queerness and the environment.

More information, along with a calendar and tickets, is at thekitchen.org.