Reframing the House of Dust: Activations - A day of performances at The House of Glass
CalArts, Los Angeles. In the context of the symposium Reframing The House of Dust
March 23, 2018
Reframing The House of Dust : Activations
Curated by Maud Jacquin, Sébastien Pluot, and Janet Sarbanes.
An afternoon and evening of activations of the House of Glass, newly constructed on the CalArts campus as part of a semester-long reconsideration of Alison Knowles’s 1967-71 House of Dust project. Current faculty, students, and guest artists performed pieces scored or inspired by Knowles and other Fluxus artists who once taught at CalArts. Knowles herself participated in performances of her iconic scores Newspaper Music and Make a Salad.
Presented and sponsored by the CalArts MA Aesthetics and Politics Program and Art by Translation in collaboration with the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and France Los Angeles Exchange (FLAX).
Program
Braiding, scored by Alison Knowles, interpreted by CalArts students and faculty
Selections, The Readers Chorus
Dragging Suite, scored by Nam June Paik, interpreted by CalArts students and faculty
A Dance, A House, A Poem, scored by Felicia Atkinson, interpreted by CalArts students and faculty
Shuffle, scored by Alison Knowles, interpreted by CalArts students and faculty
<> or Talking (with or without words) and Audience Dog, Félicia Atkinson, Julien Bismuth, Yann Sérandour (presented in the context of 'While I was also listening to NY&LA,' a program conceived at La Criée Center for Contemporary Art, France and curated by the artists and Sophie Kaplan, director)
Choir Of Babble, Jasmin Blasco
Newspaper Music, scored by Alison Knowles, interpreted by Alison Knowles with CalArts students and faculty
Make a Salad, scored by Alison Knowles, interpreted by Art by Translation and CalArts students
BREAK TO EAT SALAD
SUPERDECADENCE, Slow Reading Club (Henry Andersen and Bryana Fritz)
There are Already Too Many Things That Don't Exist, Daniel Frota
Hearing 4:33, Alison O’Daniel
Swell Piece (for Alison Knowles), scored by James Tenney, interpreted by CalArts students and faculty
Command-X/In the System, Nicholas Knight
Short film of the original House of Dust
Mechanisms of Approximation, Exercises in extraction, capture, measurement, and collection of data by human and technical instruments, repeated hourly, Lila Athanasiadou