"For Knowles, it is this moment of co-founding Fluxus that equally heralds the flourishing of her own highly multifaceted oeuvre that encompasses participatory installations, performance, sound, poetry, publications and tactile objects. Most immediately, on these early European Fluxus tours she would write many of her iconic event scores: Newspaper Music (1962), Nivea Cream Piece (1962), Shoes Of Your Choice (1963), and perhaps best known of all, the eponymous proposition Make A Salad (1962)."
""A lot of people followed us from city to city - we had to have fresh material... it had to be super simple, it had to have no theatre accoutrements, and it had to be for anybody in the group who was travelling with us. I composed them when we were touring and we did them the next day. It was very, very exciting.""
"Scores that bring attention to, and ultimately revel in a shared wonder and joy in the simplest elements of everyday life. The rhythms of preparing a salad; the story of the shoes on your feet (or any other pair); applying hand cream as a communal and sounding event; works that produce an infectious social materiality yet are simultaneously so precise, incisive."
Alison Knowles co-founded Fluxus at the 1962 Museum Wiesbaden festival and developed a multifaceted practice spanning participatory installations, performance, sound, poetry, publications and tactile objects. On early European Fluxus tours she wrote iconic event scores such as Newspaper Music (1962), Nivea Cream Piece (1962), Shoes Of Your Choice (1963) and Make A Salad (1962). She composed deliberately simple, transportable scores for touring collaborators that foreground communal routines, everyday materials and social materiality. Her works elicit shared wonder through precise enactments of ordinary acts. She was born in 1933 in New York and trained in painting at Pratt Institute.
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