Make a Salad, Alexander Gray Gallery 2010
Alison Knowles
Das museum FLUXUS+ zeigt seit April 2010 drei neue Werke der amerikanischen Künstlerin Alison Knowles. "Gang of Three", "A Rake´s Progress VII" und "Red Bean Turner" bewegen sich zwischen Klangkunst und unkonventionellen Drucktechniken.
Am 25.06.2010 performt Alison Knowles FLUXUS WITH TOOLS zur Ausstellungseröffnung IN AND OUT THE WINDOW.
Alison Knowles studierte am Pratt Institute Malerei bei Joseph Albers, Adolph Gottlieb und Richard Lindner und schloss 1954 dort ihr Studium ab. 1962 reiste sie mit Dick Higgins, den sie 1960 heiratete, nach Europa, um an den ersten, von George Maciunas organisierten Fluxus-Veranstaltungen teilzunehmen.
Zu ihren Arbeiten gehören Buchobjekte wie das Big Book (1967) - ein „begehbares“ Buch, das Knowles’ eigenes Lebensumfeld in New York abbildete –, das Book of Bean (1983) für die Biennale Venedig und auch das frühe Multiple Bean Rolls (1963), in dem Texte über Bohnen als ein „canned book“ in eine Konservendose gepackt wurden.
Mit ihrem Ehemann Dick Higgins zählt sie zu den Gründungsmitgliedern der Fluxus-Bewegung und erarbeitete zahlreiche Fluxus-Performances wie The Identical Lunch (1969) oder Make a Salad (1962). Andere Arbeiten gehören zur Klangkunst oder wurden als Hörspiele konzipiert, wie das vom WDR produzierte Bohnen Sequenzen (1982), für das sie den Karl-Sczuka-Preis erhielt. Alison Knowles lebt in New York.
Biografie
| 1933 |
Born in New York City |
| 1956 | B.F.A honors grad from Pratt Institute,
Bklyn.NY. |
| 1968 | The Big Book, by Bill Wilson (photos: Peter
Moore), Art in America |
| 1976 | Ausgabe, ed. Armin Hundertmark |
| 1986 | Technicians of Sacred , ed. Charles
Rothenberg, 2nd edition, University of California Press |
| 1986 | Assembling, ed. Charles Doria, Assembling
Press |
| 1987 | Fluxus, White Walls, ed. Ken Friedman |
| 1988 | Untitled Graphic, High Performance (10th
anniv. issue) |
| 1989 | Satori: Coco Princesse, with Brian McHugh.
eds. Gary Green and Pat Sims |
| 1989 | Archivio Della Grazia di Nuova Scrittura,
ed. Ugo Carrega, Milano |
| 1991 | Sitting Quietly Doing Nothing, a memory of
Robert Filliou, Pompidou retrospective, France |
| 1991 | La Taverna Di Auerbach, Rivista
internazionale di poetiche intermediali "Paper Weather", ed. Giovanni
Fontana |
| 1995 | Cadavre Exquis, Catalog Essay for Uli
Marchsteiner, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2001 | Drawing Center Catalog, Drawing Papers #20 |
| 2002 | Artscene,by Ellen Pearlman, Brooklyn Rail |
| 2004 | Art as Spiral Practice, Performance Art
Journal, curator: Bonnie Maranca |
| 2004 | Alison Knowles at Gahlberg Gallery, by
Julia Robinson, College of Du Page |
| 2004 | The Sculpture of Indeterminency, by Julia Robinson, Art Journal, |
Exhibitions and Installations
| 1958 | Nonagon Gallery, NYC. Abstract paintings. |
| 1960 | Judson Gallery, NYC. Silkscreen paintings
on canvas. |
| 1967 | The House of Dust, Poem with Jim Tenney,
NYC. and Cal Arts, CA. Symposium (2003), U.C. Davis, with Doug Kahn |
| 1967 | Coeurs Volants, silk-screen print
collaboration with Marcel Duchamp, NYC. |
| 1968 | Notations Book with John Cage at Something
Else Press |
| 1969 | The Big Book,Frankfurter Buchmesse,GER,DK,
Guggenheim Museum NYC, |
| 1970 - 1973 |
Directed Print and Performance Lab, Cal
Arts,CA |
| 1970s - 1980s |
West German Radio. 4 Radio
plays(GER.FR.NYC.) |
| 1983 | The Book of Bean, Venice Biennale, Venice,
IT. A Finger Book installation (FR.GER.,NYC.) |
| 1984 | Residency. Shion International Paper Mill,
Japan. |
| 1990 | Seven Indian Moon, solo, Emily Harvey
Gallery, New York, NY. |
| 1992 - 1995 | In the Spirit of Fluxus, group, Wexner
Center, US.,EU.,Japan,Korea. |
| 1995 | Indigo Island,solo(retrospective +
catalogue). Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken,GER; Centre for Contemporary Art,
Warsaw,POL; Museet for Samtidskunst,Roskilde,DK. |
| 1997 | Performance workshop Documenta X,
Kassel,GER. |
| 1997 | Fluxus Performance and workshop, Queensland
Art gallery,Brisbane,AUS. |
| 1998 | Out of Actions,group, Museum of
Contemporary Art,LA. |
| 1998 | Solo retrospective at Frauen Museum,GER. |
| 1998 - 1999 | Seachange,solo, Emily Harvey Gallery, NYC;
Caterina Gualco, Genova, IT; Jacques Donguy,FR. |
| 1999 - 2000 | The American Century,group, Whitney Museum,
NYC. |
| 2000 | Footnotes,solo, Emily Harvey Gallery,Oct.
NYC. |
| 2001 | Paperweather, with Larry Miller, The
Drawing Center,May NYC. "Frijoles Canyon Live" Odense Fluxus,May,
Denmark |
| 2003 | By Way of Correspondence, solo, exhibition
of new paper and cloth works at the Galerie Beim Steinernen Kreuz,
Bremen, Germany. |
| 2004 | Do-It-Yourself Fluxus, group, interactive
installation at ART INTERACTIVE, Cambridge, MA. |
| 2004 | October Leaves Falling, Exhibition and
Performance DuPage College, Chicago, IL. |
| 2004 | IN-FLUX, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI. |
Performances
| 1960s - 1990s | Fluxus performances and installations, USA,
EUR., Asia. |
| 1998 | Do It. "Celebration Red." Kunsthalle
Ritter, Klagenfurt, GER. 1 year world tour. Independent Curators, NY.
Curator: Hans Ulrich Obrist. |
| 1998 | Malsch, installation, Munich butcher shop,
group. - Ceci, Cannellini & Farro, solo, Caterina Gualco Gallery,
IT. |
| 1999 | In the Footsteps of Fluxshoe, lecture &
performance, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. - The American
Century, group, Whitney Museum, NY. - Performance residency. Dartington
College, Devon, UK. - "Celebration Red", Printed Matter Books, NY. -
"Autoredonna." contemporary women artists, IT |
| 2000 | Words As Music. group, 3 city concert tour.
"Frijoles Canyon". |
| 2001 | The Drawing Center,NYC.three performances,
with co-performer Larry Milller. exhibition and catalogue. -
"Celebration Red for Al Hansen". Dec. 8 performance for "Beck and Al
Hansen: Playing with Matches", Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN. |
| 2001 | Shoe String Song and Onion Skin Song.
Feb.performed at Galerie 400, Chicago. Scores exhibited from John Cage
Notations |
| 2002 | Fluxtour 2002, June. Museum of Modern Art,
Strasbourg; Museum of Modern Art, Marseilles; Menagerie Music Center,
Paris. with performers: Eric Anderson, Alison Knowles, Ben Patterson,
Ben Vautiers and others |
| 2003 | Fluxus Performance, The Phipps Center for
the Arts, Hudson, WI. |
| 2003 | Paper Sound,with Taketo Shimada, Dia
Foundation Bookstore, NYC, NY. |
| 2004 | Performance, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle
upon Tyne, England |
| 2005 | Performance, Muthesius Kunsthochschule,
Kiel, Germany |
| 2005 | Commencement Performance / Lecture, Maine College of Art, Maine |
Books
| 1963 |
The Bean Rolls Fluxus Publications,NY. |
| 1965 | The Four Suits (the T Dictionary) Something
Else Press. NY. By Alison Knowles" Great Bear Pamphlet Something Else
Press. |
| 1968 | The House of Dust Gebr. Konig Verlag, GER.
"Notations" with John Cage.Something Else |
| 1970 | Journal of the Identical Lunch Nova
Broadcast Press, CA. |
| 1973 | The Identical Lunch Nova Broadcast Press,
CA. |
| 1975 | Women's Work Unpublished Editions, NY. |
| 1977 | Gem Duck, Pari & Dispari. Reggio
Emilia, IT. |
| 1980 | Natural Assemblages and the True Crow.
Visual Studies Workshop Press, NY |
| 1983 | the red, the green, the yellow, the black,
and the white(edition of 20) with George Brecht. Editions
Lebeer-Hossmann, BEL. |
| 1990 | Seven Indian Moons Left Hand Books, NY |
| 1993 | Spoken Text, Left Hand Books, NY. |
| 1995 | Bread and Water, Left, Hand Books, NY. |
| 2001 | Footnotes, Granary Books, NY. |
| 2003 | Tamashi, with Amanda Degener, Cave Paper,
MI. |
| 2004 | Book Symposium, SUNY, New Paltz, NY. |
Awards and Residencies
| 1968 | Guggenheim Fellowship. |
| 1981 | NEA Residency Grant, Franklin Furnace, NY. |
| 1982 | Karl Sczuka Award, West German Radio (WDR). |
| 1984 | DAAD Residency Grant, Berlin, Germany. |
| 1989 | NYSCA Grant. |
| 1990 | Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst,
Salzburg, Austria. |
| 1991 | Residency, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta,
Canada. |
| 1993 | Richard Florsheim Grant,"Bread & Water"
book. |
| 1996 1997 |
Documenta Guest Professor, University of
Kassel, Kassel, GER. |
| 1997 | Workshop, "Documenta X", Kassel, GER. |
| 2002 | Womens Studio Workshop Residency,
Rosendale, NY. |
| 2003 | College Art Association, Lifetime
Achievement Aword |
| 2003 | Anonymous was a Woman Award |
