Founded in 2016, Blank Forms is a Brooklyn-based publishing, performance and exhibition platform that brings visibility to underrepresented artists working with sound, performance and other time-based media. Notable for the cross-generational, international roster of artists it works with, Blank Forms specializes in research-driven projects, often collaborating with more senior artists on their archives and legacy-building and using this experience to inform its work with artists at an earlier point in their careers. A bi-annual journal includes rare and unpublished primary documents relating to its research, newly commissioned essays and interviews, and other writing that complements its exhibition and performance series.
“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”
Pradeep Dalal, Program Director, The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
