Autumn Knight
New York, NY
NOTHING#15: a bed
Performers: Justine Chambers and Max Tyler-Hite
Lighting Design: Tuce Yusak
Set Design: Matt Schalzi
Sound Designer & Electronic Musician: Levy Lorenzo
Ticket sales close two hours before the event. Tickets will be available at the door.
DESCRIPTION
Autumn Knight’s performances create spaces for intimacy between the audience and performer. Her series NOTHING#15: a bar, a bed, a bluff is a three-part exploration of the Italian concept of “dolce far niente,” or “the sweetness of doing nothing.”
The second installment in the series, NOTHING#15: a bed, meditates on the possibility of rehearsing for loss as a two-person performance unfolds in a shared bed. The work is inspired by a 1994 conversation between the conceptual artist Félix González-Torres and Hans Ulrich Obrist, in which González-Torres discusses making art to confront his greatest fear of losing his partner, who later died of AIDS-related complications.
This work will be followed by NOTHING#15: a bluff—premiering on November 7, 8, and 9 at PICA—and NOTHING: all at once, a free exhibition that will be on view at PICA from October 3 through December 21, 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 for 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.