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The House of Dust

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2021-06-17

88 mins

The Plot

In 1967, Knowles, a Fluxus artist, composed one of the first computerized poems, written in Fortran code, with randomly assembled verses. (An example: “A house of steel / Among high mountains / Using candles / Inhabited by people who sleep almost all the time.”) This significant, jam-packed exhibition revives Knowles’s poem on an old-school dot-matrix printer, and includes related ephemera, including a film by Allan Kaprow. The show also highlights forebears of Knowles’s aleatory composition, with a never-completed book by Mallarmé whose pages could be reordered at will, as well as Marcel Broodthaer’s 1969 homage to it. There are also successors: Nicholas Knight’s intricate paintings of overlapping colored curves were generated by an algorithm, and Katarzyna Krakowiak’s audio piece remixes Knowles’s original poem into skittering musique concrète.

Cast and Crew

Alison Knowles

Alison Knowles

Herself

Jessica Higgins

Jessica Higgins

Herself

Joshua Selman

Joshua Selman

Himself

Clara Joy

Clara Joy

Herself

Andrew Hubert

Andrew Hubert

Himself

Videos & Trailers

ALISON KNOWLES: THE HOUSE OF DUST (1967 / 2021)

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