Alison Knowles

Alison Knowles (b. 1933, New York) is an American Fluxus artist whose work — spanning performance, print, artist books, and installation — has been one of the most consistent and generative in the Fluxus tradition for over sixty years. She was one of the few women central to the original Fluxus circle, alongside George Maciunas, John Cage, and Dick Higgins, whom she married.

Her event scores, beginning with Shuffle (1961) and Make a Salad (1962), transform everyday actions — cooking, walking, cleaning — into performance events that foreground the poetic significance of ordinary life.