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The House of Dust

2021-06-17 en 88m
In 1967, Knowles, a Fluxus artist, composed one of the first computerized poems, written in Fortran code, with randomly assembled verses. (An example: “A house of steel / Among high mountains / Using candles / Inhabited by people who sleep almost all the time.”) This significant, jam-packed exhibition revives Knowles’s poem on an old-school dot-matrix printer, and includes related ephemera, including a film by Allan Kaprow. The show also highlights forebears of Knowles’s aleatory composition, with a never-completed book by Mallarmé whose pages could be reordered at will, as well as Marcel Broodthaer’s 1969 homage to it. There are also successors: Nicholas Knight’s intricate paintings of overlapping colored curves were generated by an algorithm, and Katarzyna Krakowiak’s audio piece remixes Knowles’s original poem into skittering musique concrète.

Director

Alison Knowles

Creative Director

Jessica Higgins

Cinematography

Jeffrey Perkins

Producer

Joshua Selman

Editor

Joshua Selman

Sound Designer

Joshua Selman

performance art avant-garde poetry recitation live play

Status

Released

Countries

    Companies

    • Emily Harvey Foundation

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