KNOWLES, Alison

One of the founders of Fluxus, Knowles has been mainly concerned with re-creating and conceptualizing the act of reading. In her Big Book (1966), she gestalts the book as a gigantic stage construct, through, around, and into which the performers crawl, slide, slip, hop, and bend, thus realizing as activity the many stages, psychic and emotional, that we as readers undergo when encountering a book. In her later Finger Book (1986), the book is imaged as a small tactile AssemblageAssemblage...