“At the Louvre” Sound Installation at The Kitchen

The Kitchen, a non-profit, multi-disciplinary avant-garde performance and experimental art institution in the West Village, recently hosted a week-long experimental sound installation of At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets, an anthology of poems that gathers poets from around the world who were invited to write about the museum. The publication was developed in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre and New York Review Books and published in English in 2024.

For this installation, 95 of the contributors recorded their poems in their own language and were included in the sound installation at The Kitchen. Presented as an immersive sonic environment filling The Kitchen’s loft with dissonant and overlapping voices At the Louvre was a resonant dialogue across languages and centuries, inviting listeners to encounter the Louvre and the many iterations of art-making, as a chorus of many voices.

Members of AFL were invited to attend the preview and opening reception, which featured remarks from Legacy Russell, Executive Director & Chief Curator; Robyn Farrell, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Senior Curator; and Donatien Grau,  Head of Contemporary Programs at the Musée du Louvre.