Fluxus Long Weekend

Alison Knowles is a performer and intermedia artist who has been working in a multitude of art forms since she began her career as a founding member of Fluxus in the 1960s. She has created artists' books of all sizes, prints, sound art, event threads, radio plays, and performances through innovative experiments with text and image and materials. Her many works include the classic performance pieces The Identical Lunch, The Bean Garden, and Make A Salad; books such as Bread and Water, Footnotes, and the recent Time Samples. Her event scores and prints have been recently shown at the Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York City and Unimediamodern in Genoa. In 2000 Knowles began casting flax paper to make musical instruments. The Bean Turner, Rattles, Wings, and Drums use beans for sound with text and toys. She performs and lectures frequently in the U.S. and in Europe. At the Fluxus Long Weekend, held at the Tate Modern, May 24–27, 2008 she performed in her pieces Make a Salad, Shuffle, and Newspaper Music.