Reading Room: inseparable assembly
at The School for Temporary Liveness, Vol. 4

July 10–12, 2025

Wendy’s Subway, inseperable assembly, 2025. Reading room, The Kitchen at Westbeth, New York, Loft, July 10–12, 2025. Photo by Rachel Keane. Courtesy of The Kitchen.

Location

The Kitchen at Westbeth
163 Bank St, New York, NY 10014
Access notes here.

About the reading room

Wendy’s Subway presents inseparable assembly, a reading room that invites shared study, reflection, and gathering. Envisioning the reading room as a space of social choreography, inseparable assembly iterates across a selection of titles centering performative, improvisational, and pedagogical practices; and citations and fragments that encourage self-guided movement and act as offerings or prompts for writing and annotation. 

inseparable assembly is organized on the occasion of The School for Temporary Liveness, Vol. 4 at The Kitchen at Westbeth. STL reimagines performance through the poetic frame of a school. STL asks: What if we approach performances as invitations to enter into study? Inversely, if we imagine the whole operation of a school as a performance, how does that change the ways we teach and learn, or what we think of as knowledge?

inseparable assembly marks time on Thursday night with rehearsals, an After Hours Film School screening, and on Friday afternoon, with a session of Reading and Writing in Tempo.

Reading Room Collection 

Find full reading room collection here. 

Wendy’s Subway, inseperable assembly, 2025. Reading room, The Kitchen at Westbeth, New York, Loft, July 10–12, 2025. Photo by Rachel Keane. Courtesy of The Kitchen.

Wendy’s Subway, inseperable assembly, 2025. Reading room, The Kitchen at Westbeth, New York, Loft, July 10–12, 2025. Photo by Rachel Keane. Courtesy of The Kitchen.

After Hours Film School: rehearsals
Thursday, July 10, 2025, 9:00pm

After Hours Film School presents a screening program about rehearsal, improvisation, and musical and embodied interpretation as forms of collective study and assembly. Thinking with cinema as a medium that registers bodies in motion and records their sonic traces—jamming, walking, dancing, coalescing, waving an arm through the screen as the saxophone breathes out—the program asks: how can cinema choreograph its own movements and figurations of the social?

After Hours Film School is a semi-monthly workshop and screening series at Wendy’s Subway devoted to new currents in cinematic practice. The series invites moving-image makers to share new work or work-in-progress and engage around methodology, production, and key questions animating their work. 

Learn more about rehearsals here.

Reading and Writing in Tempo
Friday, July 11, 2025, 5–7pm

In this collective reading and writing session, participants are invited to engage with the publications collected in the inseparable assembly reading room. A series of prompts will guide us through experiments in translating form, time, movement, and genre to the page. 

Credits

inseparable assembly is curated by Marian Chudnovsky and Rachel Valinsky, with support by Juwon Jun
After Hours is organized by Kirsten Gill and Rachel Valinsky
Graphic design by Claire Beini Zhang
Special thanks to Agustin Schang