Javaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight

Manchester, UK / New York, NY

Javaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight In Conversation

DESCRIPTION

On September 21, join TBA:24 artists Javaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight for a free-moving conversation moderated by PICA’s Curatorial Fellow, Jason N. Le.

Though formally very different, Alipoor and Knight’s respective works in the Festival—Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World and NOTHING#15: a bar—similarly draw from their backgrounds in theater, which they use in unconventional and surprising ways to investigate our understanding of truth and the nature of investigation itself. Each artist creates meta-performances with humor, wit, and an expansive vision of what performance can be.

Both TBA and Creative Exchange Lab alumni, Alipoor and Knight will be meeting for the first time at TBA:24.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

The Javaad Alipoor Company (TJAC) is a contemporary theater company that makes work for a changing world and a global audience. Rooted in experimental and multiplatform practice, their work asks the most pressing questions we all face. With a commitment to internationalism, complexity, diversity, and fun, they make work for the twenty-first century, transforming what people think theater can be and what it can do.

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.