Alison Knowles:
Make a Salad, Tate Long Weekend, 2008		Shoreline, Waygood Gallery, 2008

Event Thread installation at Miguel Abreu Gallery

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Alison Knowles was born in New York City in 1933. In the sixties she created the Notations book with John Cage, and the Coeurs Volants with Marcel Duchamp, both with the Something Else Press. With Fluxus she made the Bean Rolls, a canned book that appeared in the Whitney's "The American Century" (2000). The Big Book (1967) followed, a walk-in book with 8-foot pages, as well as The House of Dust. This was the first computerized poetry on record, winning her a Guggenheim fellowship. She was a guest professor teaching in Kassel during Documenta X, 1996, and was included in the traveling exhibitions In the Spirit of Fluxus and Out of Actions. In 2001, she performed and exhibited at the Drawing Center in New York. She exhibits and performs internationally. Her most recent solo show Time Samples (2006) is traveled from Venice to New Jersey to Lyon. Her leparello book Time Samples, produced by Granary Books in an edition of 45, appears in this exhibition. They also produced Footnotes, offset facsimile of her travel journals. Her graphic scores were exhibited Fall 2007 at the Kitchen in NYC. Her last workshop/performance in the summer of 2007 took place in Newcastle Upon Tyne in England where a new event score Shoreline was performed and filmed. At UCSD, this piece was performed and filmed again with students along the shore of the Pacific ocean. This May 2008, She will perform Newspaper Music and Make a Salad at the Fluxus Long Weekend at the Tate Gallery in London.