September 8–October 29, 2016
Opening: September 7, 6–8pm
The James Gallery
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets
New York, NY 10016
Hours: Tuesday–Thursday noon–7pm,
Friday–Saturday noon–6pm
www.centerforthehumanities.org
Alison Knowles’s computerized poem of 1967, The House of Dust, her subsequent built structures of the same name and the many works it generated are the focus of this presentation. Documentation of Knowles’s poem and built structures, discussions, publications, and performances are presented in dialogue with other artworks from the period—predominantly by Knowles and other Fluxus artists—exploring the nexus of art, poetry, technology and architecture in ways that resonate with The House of Dust.
In addition, her prescient yet under-recognized project has been an inspiration for contemporary artists’ and architects’ responsive artworks and spatial interpretations included in the exhibition. Reactivating the pedagogical model proposed by The House of Dust, this project is the outcome of collaboration between artists and scholars.
Curators: Katherine Carl, Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot.
Artists: Alison Knowles and Chloë Bass, Keren Benbenisty, Jérémie Bennequin, Hugo Brégeau, George Brecht, John Cage, Alejandro Cesarco, Jagna Ciuchta, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Mark Geffriaud, Beatrice Gibson, Eugen Gomringer, Dan Graham, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Allan Kaprow, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Nicholas Knight, Mikko Kuorinki, Alan Michelson, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Jenny Perlin, Nina Safainia, Mieko Shiomi, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Emmett Williams and more.
Related free programs at the Graduate Center, CUNY
Friday, September 9, 6:30pm
House of Dust: A poem in process
Hannah Higgins, Nicole Woods
Wednesday, September 14, 6:30pm
“Is it alive, is it real?”
Kaegan Sparks, Soyoung Yoon
Thursday, September 15, 6:30pm
From House of Dust to Antitrust
Lucy Hunter, Rachel Valinsky, Ian Wallace
Tuesday, September 20, 6:30pm
Experimental Pedagogy and Games on the (Pacific) Coasts
Liz Donato, Felipe Mujica, Hallie Scott, Johanna Unzueta
Wednesday, September 21, 6:30pm
Gather the house around the table
Chloë Bass
Thursday, September 22, 6:30pm
A House of Sound and Sense
Ada Smailbegovic, Miya Masaoka
Wednesday, September 28, 6:30pm
Staging the Clean House of Dust
Bess Rowan, New York Neo-Futurists
Thursday, September 29, 6:30pm
Dwelling, Dislocation and the Digital
Meena Alexander, Daisy Atterbury, Iris Cushing, David Joselit
Wednesday, October 5, 6:30pm
Writing CUNY through Games
Colette Daiute, Philip Kreniske, Jessica Murray, Luke Waltzer
Thursday, October 6, 6:30pm
The Force of Small Gestures: d. n. rodowick’s recent videos
Amy Herzog, d.n. rodowick
Thursday, October 13, 6:30pm
Tomorrow, Life will be Housed in Poetry
Tom McDonough, Anthony Vidler, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
Friday, October 14, 2pm
Scales of Visibility in Global Indigenous Art
Candice Hopkins, Christopher Green, Joseph Henry, David Joselit, James Luna, Fred Myers, Wanda Nanibush, Jolene Rickard, Ian Wallace and more.
Friday, October 14, 6:30pm
Flow by Maria Hupfield
Maria Hupfield
Friday, October 14, 7:30pm
Entropic Scores
Hugo Bregeau, Jeff Guess
Tuesday, October 18: 6:30pm
On Twilight Arc, Crippled Symmetries and Performance for a Rich Man
Jenny Perlin
Wednesday, October 19, 6:30pm
Cleaning Up New York City in the 1960s and 1970s
Aleksei Grinenko, Gillian Sneed, Elizabeth Wollman
Wednesday, October 26, 6:30pm
Flux-Homes for America: Architecture, Publication, Intermedia
Colby Chamberlain, Rachel Valinsky
Thursday, October 27, 6:30pm
House of Dust: Against the Grain of Technology
Julia Robinson, Zabet Patterson
Co-sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture and the French Institute; the PhD Programs in Art History, English, and Theatre; and the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, CUNY.