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# David Lynch Curates an Art and Music Festival in Brooklyn
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/david-lynch-curates-an-art-and-music-festival-in-brooklyn/
- Published: 2018-05-16T16:50:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:55:31.000Z
- Description: The Festival of Disruption features Isabella Rossellini, Naomi Watts, Gregory Crewdson, a hefty lineup of musical acts, and, of course, a talk by Lynch himself.
- Author: Benjamin Sutton
- Tags: Art, David Lynch, Events, Gregory Crewdson, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

![David Lynch and Sheryl Lee (photo courtesy of the David Lynch Foundation)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/festival-of-disruption-1496.jpg)

David Lynch and Sheryl Lee (all photos courtesy of the David Lynch Foundation)

What kind of art and music festival has a dedicated space for [transcendental meditation](http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-0604-david-lynch-talks-transcendental-meditation-20160531-snap-story.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)? One curated by artist and filmmaker [David Lynch](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/david-lynch/), of course. This weekend, the [Festival of Disruption](https://www.festivalofdisruption.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) arrives in Brooklyn (after a 2016 outing in Los Angeles), with a fulsome lineup of exhibitions, screenings, talks, musical performances, and, from 10am to 8pm on both days of the festival, a comfortable [lounge for transcending](https://www.festivalofdisruption.com/transcend.php?ref=hyperallergic.com). Appropriately, proceeds from the entire affair will benefit the [David Lynch Foundation](https://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com), which advocates for the therapeutic and restorative power of transcendental meditation.

The musical lineup is nothing to sneer at — with members of LCD Soundsystem, Animal Collective, and My Morning Jacket doing solo sets, as well as performances by Au Revoir Simone and Jon Hopkins — but neither is the art quotient, which includes works by Lynch himself as well as [William Eggleston](https://hyperallergic.com/reconsidering-the-political-detachment-of-egglestons-images/) and [an off-site exhibition](http://joshualinergallery.com/exhibitions/miller%5Fpsychogenic%5Ffugue%5Fmay%5F16%5F2018/?ref=hyperallergic.com) of [Sandro Miller’s photographs](https://hyperallergic.com/326819/john-malkovich-plays-your-favorite-david-lynch-characters/) of John Malkovich as iconic characters from Lynch’s films and *Twin Peaks*.

On Saturday, Isabella Rossellini will lead a talk before a screening of Lynch’s *Blue Velvet* (1986), and on Sunday, after Naomi Watts discusses transcendental meditation at 11am, photographer Gregory Crewdson will be on hand to discuss [a new short documentary](https://www.canon-europe.com/pro/stories/gregory-crewdson-casting-process/?ref=hyperallergic.com) about the casting process for his elaborately produced (and, some might say, Lynchian) images. Lynch himself will hold court on Sunday afternoon, so if you have any lingering questions about *Twin Peaks: The Return*, this is your chance to get some answers.

**When:** Saturday, May 19–Sunday, May 20  
**Where:** Brooklyn Steel (319 Frost Street, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

![David Lynch at the 2016 Festival of Disruption in Los Angeles (photo courtesy of the David Lynch Foundation)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/festival-of-disruption-0658.jpg)

David Lynch at the 2016 Festival of Disruption in Los Angeles

*More info at the* [*Festival of Disruption*](https://www.festivalofdisruption.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*