Alison Knowles, a powerhouse in postwar experimental art and a cofounder of the Fluxus movement, passed away at her home in New York City on October 29 at age 92.
Knowles worked not only between disciplines but between media, seemingly exploding the boundaries of every form she inhabited. Over a six-decade career, she was a pioneer in process-based art, relational aesthetics, computer-based art, and more, incorporating both chance and sound while drawing upon the political resonances of everyday objects. She rejected not only the boundaries of the art world, but also the borders between art object and outside world.
“People don’t touch art,” she said in a 2010 oral history with the Archives of American Art. “That’s one of the problems.” Indeed, as critic Sally Deskins wrote in Hyperallergic in 2016, “Knowles asks us to physically experience the now.”
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