Installation view, by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2022
Make a Salad, 1962
Performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles in 2019
Found Gloves In Line, 2018
Found gloves and leather string with loop
77 x 7 inches
Celebration Red (Homage to Each Red Thing), 1962/1994
Installation view, Alison Knowles, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2016
The Boat Book, 2014-2015
Walk-in room size environment with center spine and pages
Mixed media on wood
Book approximate : 96 x 106 inches
Individual page approximate: 96 x 48 inches
Bean Collection, 2013
Collection of beans from all over the world in a stoneware bowl
3 1/2 x 7 x 7 inches
Men and Women Commonly Dress Alike, 2011
Collaboration with Rirkrit Tiravanija
Digital print on canvas, bamboo
61 x 29 inches
The Identical Lunch, 1973
Performed at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2011
Giant Bean Turner, 2000
Performed by Alison Knowles at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2009 for the exhibition The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989
Newspaper Music, 1962
Performed at the Tate Modern, London in 2008
Rake's Progress, 2008
Cyanotype on cotton
54 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches
Event Thread, 2006
Mixed medium
67 x 3 inches
Two Poets Tee, 2005
Shirt, mixed media
90 x 24 inches
Iliad Odditites (Greene Street), 2003
Found objects and cyanotype on cloth
24 x 108 1/2 inches
Bean Turner, Red, 2000
Flax paper, beans
23 x 7 x 2 1/2 inches
Brick Book Trilogy, mid 1990s
Dyed flax paper bricks, eyeglasses, different kinds of lenses, metal watch band, seaweed strands, red beans, hole punch holes
8 1/2 x 5 x 2 1/2 inches; 8 1/2 x 7 x 2 1/2 inches; 8 1/2 x 6.6 x 3 inches
Shigeko Kubota Performs The Identical Lunch, 1973/1992
Silkscreen on canvas
19 1/2 x 18 inches
Pagina Lenticchia, 1980-1990
Branch, cotton, flax, lentils, acrylic stamp, and unbleached flax
Main: 89 x 43 x 2 1/2 inches
Broken Line with Slippers, 1980s
Handmade flax paper with shoes, paint, strings, and hand colored cotton with wooden bar
145 1/4 x 43 inches
A Change of Seasons, 1980s
Handmade cotton paper, plant material: fern leaves, print ink
89 x 47 1/2 inches
Shoe String Song, 1971
Sepia blueprint on vellum
92 1/2 x 36 inches
The House of Dust (computer generated poem), 1971
Dot matrix printer paper with ribbon ink
Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
44 x 14 3/4 inches
47 7/10 x 18 inches (framed)
Each sheet : 11 x 14 3/4 inches
The House of Dust, 1967
Dot Matrix printer, continuous paper, ribbon cartridge, micro-computer, 2 micro-SD cards, 2 USB cables, 1 220V AC cord, 1 USB power supply block, 1 USB to mini USB adapter, 2-speed poem generating software and data
Output: Computer-generated-poem No.2 on continuous data processing paper
Installation view, Shelter or Playground: The House of Dust at the Schindler House, Schindler House, Los Angeles, 2019
The House of Dust, 1967
Structures installed 1969-1975 at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
First iteration resulting from a stanza of the computer-generated poem turned into architecture:
A HOUSE OF DUST
ON OPEN GROUND
LIT BY NATURAL LIGHT
INHABITED BY FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
Computer Poem Drop, 1971
1000 feet of computer-generated poem dropped from the skies at 2pm on May 20, 1971
As part of The House of Dust, installed 1969-1975 at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Page from by Alison Knowles
Great Bear Pamphlet originally published by Something Else Press in 1965-67, facsimile edition published by Primary Information in 2007
Containing a comprehensive collection of performance/event scores from 1961 through 1965
Bean Rolls, 1965
Metal tin with offset label, containing nine beans and fourteen offset scrolls
3 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches
Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Alison Knowles with Nam June Paik, Emmett Williams, George Maciunas, and Benjamin Patterson
Performing George Maciunas' In Memoriam to Adriano Olivetti, during Concert No. 5, Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik at Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden in 1962