Talk | Lotus L. Kang with Lola Kramer and Jack Schneider

About the Event

This year, the Chicago-based artist Lotus L. Kang transformed the museum’s atrium with her mesmerizing work Molt (New York-Lethbridge-Los Angeles-Toronto-Chicago- ) (2018–2023). To celebrate the final weeks of the commissioned installation, Kang speaks with MCA Assistant Curator Jack Schneider and curator Lola Kramer.

ASL and CART captioning are provided.

About the Speakers

Lola Kramer is a curator and writer based in New York City. She is known for her essays, profiles, and interviews with artists across creative disciplines. As Curator-in-Residence at Dunkunsthalle, an artist-run project space in New York, she produced “Nancy Holt: Perspectives,” an exhibition focusing on the moving image artworks by the legendary American artist. In 2022 she organized “7 Gardens,” a public art exhibition designed to connect local public space to the practices of established and emerging artists working to represent ideas of nature and community engagement in the Lower East Side. Kramer’s writing has been featured in numerous publications, including the Whitney Biennial Catalogue, Frieze, Art Basel, Interview, CURA, and Kaleidoscope, as well as monographs published by MACK, Phaidon, and Rizzoli. She has organized exhibitions, artist conversations, and screenings at institutions like Städelschule in Frankfurt and the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College. In 2019, Kramer was the editor of the Bastard Cookbook, a collection of hybridized recipes by Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija and Finnish chef Antto Melasniemi. Kramer received her MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in 2017, after which she served as Curatorial Director of Wide Rainbow, a contemporary art after-school program that connects artists with communities in under-resourced neighborhoods with limited access to the arts or arts education.