Autumn Knight
New York, NY
NOTHING#15: a bluff
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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.”
NOTHING#15: a bluff is the third and final installment of Knight’s series. The performance presents Knight alone, responding improvisationally to a sparsely-filled space, its features, and its audiences.
Additionally, don't miss the free exhibition NOTHING: all at once, on view at PICA from October 3 – December 21, 2024. As an accompaniment to the performance series, NOTHING: all at once is an evolving installation that features the artist’s drawings alongside objects from each performance, as well as shifting sound and lighting elements. Knight invites audiences into a moment of respite from the creation of meaning as this experimental project crosses disciplines to consider the self in relation to intimacy, impermanence, and impossibilities.
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.