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The House of Dust

The House of Dust

2021 88min EN

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.

director: Alison Knowles

cast: Alison Knowles, Jessica Higgins, Joshua Selman, Clara Joy

external: Website

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Alison Knowles

Alison Knowles

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Jessica Higgins

Jessica Higgins

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Joshua Selman

Joshua Selman

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Clara Joy

Clara Joy

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Andrew Hubert

Andrew Hubert

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