William Knapp

Arts & Entertainment

Producer, Designer, Stage Manager and Curator Will Knapp has worked in the New York art and performance worlds since 1984. He has mounted performances in over forty countries with MacArthur fellow artists Martha Clarke, Merce Cunningham, Richard Foreman, Mimi Lien, Sarah Michelson, Meredith Monk, Michael Moschen, Lynn Nottage, Elizabeth Streb, Twyla Tharp, Jennifer Tipton, and Shen Wei. As well he has worked with Robert Wilson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert Whitman, Benjamin Millepied, Emanuel Gat, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Justin Peck. He has facilitated collaboration between these live artists and fine artists such as Robert Gober, Olafur Eliasson, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Long, Christopher Wool, Barbara Kruger, Terry Winters, Catherine Yass, Christian Marclay, Ernesto Neto, Liam Gillick, Ruby Sterling, Gabriel Orozco, Jackie Matisse Monnier and Richard Hamilton. His unique position at the nexus of fine and performing arts led him to wonder at the contrasts between how these worlds operate, catalyzing him to embark on a multi-year study of arts organizational structures, art conservation, the art market, and perpetual funding models of trusts and endowments. This confluence of experience and study has led him to the conclusion that a convergence of historical, cultural and market factors make now the ideal time to bring Live Arts to their proper place as equals in the panoply of artistic endeavor.

Brooklyn | NY