Alison Knowles is a trailblazing artist known for her contributions to the Fluxus movement and experimental art. In the 1960s, she collaborated with John Cage on Notations and Marcel Duchamp on Coeurs Volants. Her works include the walk-in installation The Big Book (1967) and the computer-generated poem The House of Dust (1968), which earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Her art has been showcased at Documenta X, the Guggenheim Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, and the Whitney Museum. In 2008, her performance Make a Salad at the Tate Long Weekend drew a record-breaking audience of 3,000. She was an artist-in-residence at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and has exhibited internationally in cities like London, Venice, and Berlin.
