Blank Forms

Blank Forms was created to serve as a comprehensive support structure for emerging and unrepresented artists and archives and to provide resources and outlets for their work, particularly by creating in-depth public programs and educational materials. Across the fiscal year of January 1 2023December 31, 2023, Blank Forms presented a total of forty one performances and three exhibitions, and released twenty one books and records from the publishing imprint Blank Forms Editions. Blank Forms continued to present events and exhibitions to the public in two Clinton Hill, Brooklyn spaces, while additionally organizing off-site programs across New York City, and in other cities including Los Angeles, Paris, Copenhagen, and Oslo. A major cross-platform project illuminated the practice of poet, visual artist, and musician Loren Connorsbest known for his ephemeral blues musicthrough a major solo exhibition of paintings and a program of solo and duo performances. A series of multi-day residencies in Brooklyn featured artists including Ellen Arkbro, Marcus Pal, James Rushford, Jessika Kenney, and Eyvind Kang, among others. Blank Forms additionally toured projects with Still House Plants, Sun Ra Arkestra, and Catherine Christer Hennix both nationally and internationally. Other programs continued to engage with pioneers including Kahil El'Zabar, Alvin Lucier, and Eliane Radigue; emerging artists Kesswa, Isaiah Collier, and Judith Hamann; and international artists ine O'Dwyer, Timothy Archambault, and Marginal Consort, among others.