Jennifer Krasinski and Andrew Lampert will share aspects of their ongoing research into Richard Foreman. Working together, they have uncovered a plethora of documentation and unstaged material that will be featured in a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Foreman and his collaborators in the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. They will discuss their process and consider the question of what it means to transmit experience. Foreman’s iconoclastic productions are largely irreproducible, and yet they must always be performed anew in order to be seen. What is involved in authentically staging the work of a theater artist who insists that others must not interpret or imitate him when performing his plays?
Free and open to the public.
Andrew Lampert’s moving image and performance work has been widely exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou, Getty Museum, New York Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival. His recent curatorial projects include the shows Ken Jacobs: Up The Illusion at NYU’s 80WSE Gallery, My Harry at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Attention Line at Artists Space in New. York City. Lampert has edited books on artists including Tony Conrad, Manuel De Landa, George Kuchar, Harry Smith and William Wegman. He co-authors the monthly advice columns Hard Truths and Hard Choice with Howie Chen for in Art in America magazine. Formerly the Curator of Collections at Anthology Film Archives, he has preserved hundreds of canonical experimental and independent films and videos. Further Reading, the new publishing imprint that he is launching with Christine Burgin, will debut in Spring 2025 with five titles.
Jennifer Krasinski is a writer and cultural critic who contributes to 4Columns, Bookforum, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker (Goings On), and other publications. Her essays have been published in numerous books and catalogs including Reza Abdoh, Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of a Critic, and Hilton Als’s Andy Warhol: The Series. She was an art columnist for the Village Voice from 2014 to 2018, and served as both senior editor at Artforum and later as the magazine’s digital editorial director. She taught at Art Center College of Design, New York University, Yale University, and is currently teaching in the MFA Art program at Lesley University. She is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2012), a Rauschenberg residency, and is a 2023–24 MacDowell fellow.