Alison Knowles (1933-2025)
Alison Knowles did paintings and silkscreen work of all kinds and around 1961 started writing short performance pieces.
When George Maciunas organized the first European Fluxus Festivals in 1962, Knowles, together with Dick Higgins, whom she married in 1960, also left for Europe to participate in the activities.
She performed her own pieces as well as pieces by other artists, such as Nam June Paik’s ‘Serenade for Alison’, performed during a manifestation at the Kunsthandel Monet in Amsterdam on October 5, 1962.
Back in the U.S.A. she participated in many Fluxus and related manifestations.
