Alison Knowles "Make a Salad"
WHITE BOX
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WHITE BOX announces the launching of “DownTown ReChargE” a new and vital Performance/Music/Sound/Media series dedicated to the reinvigoration of the ‘Downtown’ Spirit that made New York a hub of radical, experimental and seminal multimedia art. The series will be opened by acclaimed American Fluxus artist Alison Knowles, presenting her 1962 collective, participatory and edible performance piece “Make a Salad.”
Alison Knowles first made a salad “in the name of art” at London's ICA in 1962. “Make a Salad” is what the Fluxus artist termed an "event score": a written instruction that can be acted out and changed according to the context in which it is performed. Previously performed in Tate Modern's giant Turbine Hall by the knives of five known chefs, the work is now being adapted for WHITE BOX's new space in the Bowery district.
To prelude the performance of “Make a Salad,” intermedia artists Jessica Higgins and Joshua Selman will present a collaborative piece of music and dance. Next the amplified sounds of three chefs chopping greens consume the space followed by the spectacle of the salad being sliced and thrown from an elevated stage. The artist then rakes and mixes the greens using shovel and tongs to serve the salad. The audience becomes a key ingredient in the performance and is invited to eat the salad.
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January 10, 2009 from 18:00 to 21:00