NOTHING: more is an anti-still life, a composition of objects and bodies constantly in flux. In this work, performance artist Autumn Knight experiments with the porous boundary between parts and whole, object and body, configuration and abstraction. Throughout its duration, three performers move objects of varying size and texture into momentary compositions. While one performer constructs an image, another comes to disrupt, reinterpret and at times conglomerate with their body and/or more objects. The performance itself resists identification, narration, and legibility; instead Knight starts from nothing and never veers too far from it. This is a process of making the self, a constant state of renewal that takes our parts to create and reconfigure out of necessity. And there is always more; more to be done, rehearsed and assumed, creating both more and nothing at the same time.

Note: This performance includes loud noises, partial nudity.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Autumn Knight is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working with performance, video, sound, and text. Her work has been on view at various institutions including Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA), Shedhalle (Zurich), The Whitney Museum of American Art, PICA (Portland Institute of Contemporary Art), The Kitchen, MCA Chicago, Museum Ostwall (Germany), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Performance Space New York, REDCAT, and The Walker Art Center. Her performance work, WALL, is the first live performance work acquired for the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Knight is the recipient of various awards, grants, honors and fellowships including Artadia Award, Art Matters Grant, Anonymous Was a Woman, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Art, Guggenheim Fellowship, Harpo Foundation Grant and most recently the Trellis Art Fund.

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Made possible by the Harpo Foundation.

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