Symposium Organizers
Photo courtesy Louie Raffloer.
Larry Reid
Larry Reid has been an advocate for visual and performing arts in the Pacific Northwest and beyond since co-founding Rosco Louie gallery in Seattle’s Pioneer Square in 1978. He has since served as director of Graven Image gallery and the Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), and as a curator for Experience Music Project (EMP). He is also an independent producer of multidisciplinary cultural activities.
Over the course of his career he has presented the work of countless regional, national and international artists including Kathy Acker, Kathleen Hanna, Lynda Barry, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Nirvana, William S. Burroughs, Robert Crumb, Lydia Lunch, Ann Magnuson, Chuck Close, Keith Haring, Sonic Youth, Mike Kelley, Karen Finley, Eric Bogosian, Charles Peterson, Einsturzende Neubauten, Von Dutch, Henry Rollins, Daniel Clowes, Gary Panter, Mudhoney, and many more. He has served as a peer panelist for various private foundations and public agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts (1990). He has contributed to several books including Pop Surrealism: The Rise of Underground Art, Edward Colver: Blight at the End of the Funnel, Tiki Art Now!, Jini Dellaccio: Rock & Roll, and Sub Pop USA: 1980 – 1987. Reid currently works as curator and events coordinator at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle’s historic Georgetown arts community, where he also serves as president of the Georgetown Merchants Association (GMA).
Daniel Schulz
Daniel Schulz staged, wrote, and directed Humanity Incorporated at the 100° Festival in 2015, Berlin. Published the short story collection Schrei in 2016 and finished his BA in English Studies and History with his thesis paper Body, Text, and Society in the Work of Kathy Acker. In 2017 he undertook the inventory of Kathy Acker‘s personal library at the University of Cologne, also known in the Kathy Acker Reading Room, which he is currently curating. He is completing his MA in History and English Studies at the University of Cologne with a paper focusing on the inventory of the Kathy Acker Reading Room.
