TERRY KITCHEN



In 1968 the seminal Fluxus artist Terry Kitchen in a performance at the Leo Castelli Gallery on West Broadway in New York City cryogenically stored 4.6 liters of semen. Mr. Kitchen, who often worked closely with the artist joseph Bueys, intended to distribute the stored semen after a period of 30 years, to willing donors who would be artificially inseminates and threby to create what Kitchen described to Bueys as "one big family of everyone in the world." Like Buey's "Thousand Oaks Project, which combined fertility, immortality, and nature, Kitchen pushes the boundaries of what is meant by "artistic production."

For the Frankfurt am Main Free Manifesta / Manifesta 4 Mr. Kitchen will distribute free of charge his stored semen to any applicant who is willing to become a participant in the project.


HOW TO LOCATE

Contact Terry Kitchen by mail:

Terry Kitchen
Studio
103 Greenbush Road
Orangeburg, New York
10962 USA



ABOUT THE ARTIST

Terry Kitchen was born in Brooklyn, NY and studied at The Art Students League, and Pratt Institute. Along with Nam June Paik and Yoko Ono, he helped found the NY FLUXSCHOOL in Soho, a free day-care center for the children of artists. In 2002, Mr. Kitchen was nominated for a National Medal for Arts, as well as a Pulitzer Prize in Photography. Mr. Kitchen lives and works in Orangeburg, New York, where he lives with his wife Irene, and his two cats, Mustard and Pickles.