Autumn Knight

© Autumn Knight, Nothing #12: Tang (performance), 2023. Photo Shawn Lachapelle.

USA
https://autumnjoiknight.com/

Autumn Knight is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video, and text. Knight has been recognized for her work with awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, Foundation For Contemporary Arts Grant, Rema Mann Hort Foundation Grant, Art Matters Grant, and an Artadia Award.

Works

Performance
A Score of Scores

In this series, 10 artists perform the interpretation of a performance score, written for them by an artist of their own choosing.

10 artists. 10 score writers.
A score is an old term for 20.
A score of scores.

Performance
DOCUMENTS by Autumn Knight

DOCUMENTS involves a public reading of the documentation that serves to authenticate or legitimize citizenship. Central to this work is a filing cabinet that both holds the props required for the performance, while also serving as a portrait or trace of the artist.

Writing

Engagements

BOOKS & OTHER EPHEMERA

FADO Performance Art Centre
445-401 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5V 3A8

416.822.3219
info@performanceart.ca

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Artist Orange

Just as a performance artist uses their body as their medium, this is a fragrance composed entirely of the orange tree: fruit, leaves, bark, roots, and flowers. Artist Orange performs itself.

Top Notes

neroli, blood orange

Middle Notes

fresh orange juice, petit grain

Base Notes

orange twig, orange seed