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Alison
Knowles
MAKE A SALAD
Music introduction performed by Jessica Higgins
and Joshua Selman
Saturday January 10
6pm – 9pm
Alison Knowles, Performance: Make a Salad
WHITE BOX is
pleased to announce the launching of “DownTown
ReChargE” a new and vital Performance/Music/Sound/Media
series dedicated to the reinvigoration of the ‘Downtown’
Spirit that made New York a hub of radical, experimental and
seminal multimedia art. The series will be opened by acclaimed
American Fluxus artist Alison Knowles, presenting her 1962 collective,
participatory and edible performance piece “Make
a Salad.”
Alison Knowles first made a salad “in the name of art”
at London's ICA in 1962. “Make a Salad”
is what the Fluxus artist termed an "event score":
a written instruction that can be acted out and changed according
to the context in which it is performed. Previously performed
in Tate Modern's giant Turbine Hall by the knives of five known
chefs, the work is now being adapted for WHITE BOX's
new space in the Bowery district.
To prelude the performance of “Make a Salad,”
intermedia artists Jessica Higgins and Joshua Selman will present
a collaborative piece of music and dance. Next the amplified
sounds of three chefs chopping greens consume the space followed
by the spectacle of the salad being sliced and thrown from an
elevated stage. The artist then rakes and mixes the greens using
shovel and tongs to serve the salad. The audience becomes a
key ingredient in the performance and is invited to eat the
salad.
Alison Knowles was born in New York City in 1933, a key protagonist
in early Fluxus activities in the 1960s, her performance works
and Fluxus scores such as “Make a Salad,”
explore notions of collective activity using elements from everyday
experiences.
Do not miss M.C. Larry Litt introduction of “The
DownTown ReChargE Series”
at 6:45 pm sharp.
WHITE BOX and Alison Knowles would like to thank the contribution
of Taketo
Shimada and 5Ninth Restaurant and Bar, located at 5 Ninth Ave.
New York, as well as that of Rishi Puntes and Andrew Veal, chefs
of REDS TAPAS BAR located 289 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn.
For more information please contact Deven
Marriner at operations@whiteboxny.org
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