BLANK FORMS
Lawrence Kumpt
Thursday, December 5
Reception at Welcome Center: 6:00 pm
Public lecture: 6:30 pm
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At the heart of New York’s experimental performing arts community for more than fifteen years, in 2016 Lawrence Kumpf founded Blank Forms, which has now presented over 100 performances, exhibitions, and published numerous books and records in its eight year history. That same year, Kumpf co-curated the exhibition Open Plan: Cecil Taylor at the Whitney Museum, and two exhibitions devoted to the work of pioneering composer Catherine Christer Hennix. Most recently he has organized Organic Music Society, a multifaceted project that included a book, records, and a traveling exhibition on the collaborative work of Don and Moki Cherry; Transmissions from the Pleroma a solo exhibition on the maverick outsider multimedia artist Jerry Hunt and Candace Hill-Montgomery’s Pretty Birds Peer Speak Sow Peculiar showcasing the artist’s recent fabric work. He has organized collaborative performance projects with historically important and emerging artists from around the world at institutions including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Argos in Brussels, Bourse de Commerce Pinault Collection in Paris, the Munch Museum in Oslo, MoMA PS1, and the Guggenheim in New York. Along with Bill Dietz he oversees The Maryanne Amacher Foundation; and with Marcus Pal the Catherine Christer Hennix estate. Previously, Kumpf served as the Curator as well as Artistic Director of ISSUE Project Room from 2008 to 2016. About his over decade long career presenting art and music in New York City, ArtNews has written, “Kumpf programmed work from different disciplines—music, dance, theater, polyglot incarnations of all at once—and effectively created his own culture.”
Discounted parking available in Founder’s Court lot, $6 flat fee, credit card required.
Free and open to the public.