Alison Knowles: Sound and Space
禄THE G脛LLERY芦 presents a selection of over a hundred photographs from the holdings of the Sohm Archive. They show events and performances borne of a lively creative practice. In the middle of it all, we see the US artist Alison Knowles, sometimes as part of a group of artists, sometimes as a solo performer. What is particularly intriguing is the view of what is happening through the lens of a camera: How does photography convey an event that is designed to be ephemeral? How does it fathom the complexity of artistic processes? As it turns out, photography lends itself very well to capturing an art in which the intersection of different media plays a key role.
Since the acquisition of the Sohm Archive in 1981, the Staatsgalerie owns a unique collection of documentary material devoted to intermedia art with a special focus on Fluxus, Happening, Beat, Underground, Viennese Actionism and Concrete Poetry. The beginnings of the archive go back to Hanns Sohm (1921-1999), a dentist in M眉nchingen and Markgr枚ningen near Stuttgart. Parallel to the emergence of the Fluxus movement in the 1960s, he began to put together his collection, in which Alison Knowles, a co-founder of Fluxus, plays a central role. Her pieces Make a Salad, Nivea Cream Piece and Newspaper Music have become part of the standard repertoire of performance art. In these and other works, she positioned herself in the crossover space of art, music, theatre and poetry.
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禄THE G脛LLERY芦 presents a selection of over a hundred photographs from the holdings of the Sohm Archive. They show events and performances borne of a lively creative practice. In the middle of it all, we see the US artist Alison Knowles, sometimes as part of a group of artists, sometimes as a solo performer. What is particularly intriguing is the view of what is happening through the lens of a camera: How does photography convey an event that is designed to be ephemeral? How does it fathom the complexity of artistic processes? As it turns out, photography lends itself very well to capturing an art in which the intersection of different media plays a key role.
Since the acquisition of the Sohm Archive in 1981, the Staatsgalerie owns a unique collection of documentary material devoted to intermedia art with a special focus on Fluxus, Happening, Beat, Underground, Viennese Actionism and Concrete Poetry. The beginnings of the archive go back to Hanns Sohm (1921-1999), a dentist in M眉nchingen and Markgr枚ningen near Stuttgart. Parallel to the emergence of the Fluxus movement in the 1960s, he began to put together his collection, in which Alison Knowles, a co-founder of Fluxus, plays a central role. Her pieces Make a Salad, Nivea Cream Piece and Newspaper Music have become part of the standard repertoire of performance art. In these and other works, she positioned herself in the crossover space of art, music, theatre and poetry.
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