{"id":124332,"date":"2015-10-16T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=124332"},"modified":"2021-11-08T09:20:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:20:15","slug":"visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual artist Christopher Knowles to give solo performance"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"poster\"<\/a>
download the poster<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Monday, Oct. 26, the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½\u2019s Humanities Project in conjunction with the International Theatre Program will present a solo performance of The Sundance Kid is Beautiful<\/em>, a rarely shown work by visual artist Christopher Knowles at 7 p.m. in Todd Theatre.<\/p>\n

The performance is a culmination of a weeklong artist residency on campus where Knowles and members of his team will work with undergraduate students in studio art and theater to further develop sections of the piece that have previously been performed, in parts, at the Louvre in Paris and in New York City. New elements include a new dance sequence, design elements, and some additional material.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis art has had a visible influence on American postmodern performance, poetry, and visual art since the 1970s,\u201d said Lauren DiGiulio, a graduate student in Visual and Cultural Studies who helped bring the piece to Rochester. For the past three years, she has worked with Knowles and a team of six others to create the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistorically, he\u2019s known as a cult artist in either theatre, poetry, or art, and not for his entire body of work. What we\u2019re doing with this performance is bringing all these fields together to show the depth of his work and that he\u2019s an artist whose work should be taken on his own terms. He has a detailed mind that allows him to see things we typically don\u2019t see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knowles\u2019 work first caught the attention of the art world in the early 1970s through his collaborations with artist Robert Wilson. His first exhibition as a solo artist took place in 1974 and since that time his work has continued to explore themes surrounding communication through text and patterns. His two and three-dimensional works are held in\u00a0the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn\u00a0Museum, the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, as well as numerous\u00a0other international institutions and private collections. However, despite the popularity of his work, he is often regarded as being an outsider whose work is explained through his autism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough The Sundance Kid is Beautiful<\/em>, we hope to present him as a multidisciplinary artist whose autism expands, rather than defines, his work,\u201d said DiGiulio.<\/p>\n

The 60-minute show includes Knowles\u2019 alarm clock collection, recent sculptures, and a finely tuned lighting and sound design to convey measures of time, communication, and the popular culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow we measure time and the frustration associated with having to conform to certain schedules, behaviors, and boundaries are themes explored throughout the piece that all people can relate to,\u201d explains DiGiulio. \u201cThese are everyday struggles that are personal to Knowles and yet resonate widely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knowles\u2019 public performance on Monday, Oct. 26 is in Todd Theatre on the University\u2019s River Campus and is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and tickets will be available at the door starting at 6pm the day of the show. Following the show there will be a discussion with Knowles and his collaborators moderated by Nigel Maister, the Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic Director of the University\u2019s International Theatre Program.\u00a0 For more information visit, http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/humanities\/events\/2015\/10\/the-sundance-kid-is-beautiful-with-christopher-knowles.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University\u2019s Humanities Project will present a solo performance of The Sundance Kid is Beautiful<\/em>, a rarely shown work by visual artist Christopher Knowles. Knowles is often regarded as being an outsider whose work is explained through his autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":124382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13092],"tags":[27112,14,21522,25132,14092,4926,16072],"class_list":["post-124332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-arts","tag-arts-and-humanities","tag-events","tag-graduate-program-in-visual-and-cultural-studies","tag-humanities-center","tag-humanities-project","tag-international-theatre-program","tag-school-of-arts-and-sciences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nVisual artist Christopher Knowles to give solo performance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Visual artist Christopher Knowles to give solo performance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The University\u2019s Humanities Project will present a solo performance of The Sundance Kid is Beautiful, a rarely shown work by visual artist Christopher Knowles. Knowles is often regarded as being an outsider whose work is explained through his autism.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-10-16T14:39:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-08T14:20:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Knowles.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Valerie Alhart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Valhart_URcomm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Valerie Alhart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Valerie Alhart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/120c58828b754cab9beab3c33f9329c4\"},\"headline\":\"Visual artist Christopher Knowles to give solo performance\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-10-16T14:39:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-08T14:20:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":545,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/10\\\/Knowles.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Arts and Humanities\",\"events\",\"Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies\",\"Humanities Center\",\"Humanities Project\",\"International Theatre Program\",\"School of Arts and Sciences\"],\"articleSection\":[\"The Arts\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\\\/\",\"name\":\"Visual artist Christopher Knowles to give solo performance\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/10\\\/Knowles.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-10-16T14:39:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-08T14:20:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/120c58828b754cab9beab3c33f9329c4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/10\\\/Knowles.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/10\\\/Knowles.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":600,\"caption\":\"artist and props on stage\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Visual artist Christopher Knowles to give solo performance\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/\",\"name\":\"News Center\",\"description\":\"Ä¢¹½´«Ã½\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/120c58828b754cab9beab3c33f9329c4\",\"name\":\"Valerie Alhart\",\"description\":\"Valerie Alhart is press officer for humanities and broadcast media, and covers humanities and the arts at the University.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/Valhart_URcomm\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/author\\\/valhart\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Visual artist Christopher Knowles to give solo performance","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Visual artist Christopher Knowles to give solo performance","og_description":"The University\u2019s Humanities Project will present a solo performance of The Sundance Kid is Beautiful, a rarely shown work by visual artist Christopher Knowles. Knowles is often regarded as being an outsider whose work is explained through his autism.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/","og_site_name":"News Center","article_published_time":"2015-10-16T14:39:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-11-08T14:20:15+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Knowles.jpg","width":1000,"height":600,"type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Valerie Alhart","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Valhart_URcomm","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Valerie Alhart","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/"},"author":{"name":"Valerie Alhart","@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/#\/schema\/person\/120c58828b754cab9beab3c33f9329c4"},"headline":"Visual artist Christopher Knowles to give solo performance","datePublished":"2015-10-16T14:39:14+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-08T14:20:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/"},"wordCount":545,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Knowles.jpg","keywords":["Arts and Humanities","events","Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies","Humanities Center","Humanities Project","International Theatre Program","School of Arts and Sciences"],"articleSection":["The Arts"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/","url":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/","name":"Visual artist Christopher Knowles to give solo performance","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Knowles.jpg","datePublished":"2015-10-16T14:39:14+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-08T14:20:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/#\/schema\/person\/120c58828b754cab9beab3c33f9329c4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Knowles.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Knowles.jpg","width":1000,"height":600,"caption":"artist and props on stage"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/visual-artist-christopher-knowles-to-give-solo-performance-at-university-of-rochester\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Visual artist Christopher Knowles to give solo performance"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/","name":"News Center","description":"Ä¢¹½´«Ã½","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/#\/schema\/person\/120c58828b754cab9beab3c33f9329c4","name":"Valerie Alhart","description":"Valerie Alhart is press officer for humanities and broadcast media, and covers humanities and the arts at the University.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/Valhart_URcomm"],"url":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/author\/valhart\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124542,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124332\/revisions\/124542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}