Autumn Knight

New York, NY

NOTHING#15: a bar

Pacific Northwest Premiere

Access notes: This performance may feature flashing lights.

DESCRIPTION

Autumn Knight’s performances create spaces for intimacy between audience and performer. Her series NOTHING#15: a bar, a bed, a bluff is a three part investigation into the Italian concept of “dolce far niente,” or “the sweetness of doing nothing.” In its Pacific Northwest premiere, NOTHING#15: a bar enacts a social experiment that transforms PICA’s warehouse space into a host club, where a multitude of performers take on the task of provoking desire and exchanging acts of care with audience members. Through various modes of interaction, the work explores and initiates transient moments of connection between strangers. The succeeding two works in this suite, NOTHING#15: a bed, and NOTHING#15: a bluff, will premiere in the fall of 2024.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Autumn Knight (b. Houston, TX) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video, sound, and text. Drawing from her training in theater, group dynamics, and psychology, Knight makes performances that reshape power structures and upend audience expectations of live experiences. Her performance work has been on view at various institutions, including Human Resources, Los Angeles; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Shedhalle, Zurich; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, OR; The Kitchen, New York; Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Museum Ostwall, Dortmund; Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY; Performance Space New York, NY; and REDCAT, Los Angeles. Her performance work, WALL, is the first live performance work acquired to the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Knight is the recipient of various awards, grants, honors, and fellowships, including an Art Matters Grant, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Art, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. 

SPONSORSHIP

A National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project.

Co-commissioned by Performance Space New York, REDCAT,  PICA, and NPN.