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X-WR-CALNAME:Faculty Pub Night: Nicole Woods on "Performing Chance: The Art
  of Alison Knowles In/Out of Fluxus"
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DESCRIPTION:Note: If you are interested in attending this event\, please RS
 VP here or select the "Register" button on this page. We will have light r
 efreshments. If you prefer to attend virtually\, register here.\n\nThe fou
 rth Faculty Pub Night of the 2025-26 season features Nicole Woods\, visiti
 ng professor of art history (College of Communication and Fine Arts). She 
 will discuss her upcoming publication\, "Performing Chance: The Art of Ali
 son Knowles In/Out of Fluxus."\n\nAbout Faculty Pub Night\n\nStudents\, st
 aff\, faculty\, alumni\, and members of the public are all invited to the 
 2025-26 series of Faculty Pub Night at the William H. Hannon Library. Eigh
 t LMU professors are selected annually to discuss their latest publication
  or project in a comfortable setting and format that welcomes diverse pers
 pectives for an inclusive conversation aimed to educate the entire communi
 ty. All Faculty Pub Nights are free and open to the public.\n\nAbout the A
 uthor's Work\n\nThis book is the first historical study of American artist
  Alison Knowles\, a significant yet overlooked cofounder of the internatio
 nal\, interdisciplinary Fluxus movement in the early 1960s. The sole femal
 e practitioner among the artists\, musicians\, and poets of Fluxus\, she h
 as nevertheless remained an enigmatic\, underrecognized figure in the hist
 ory of art. "Performing Chance" fills a gap in the record\, bringing to li
 ght Knowles’s transformative body of work as it evolved from abstract pa
 inting in the late 1950s\, to silkscreens\, print media\, and performance 
 in the early 1960s\, to groundbreaking works in digital poetry\, musical c
 omposition\, acoustical art\, and large-scale installations in the late 19
 60s-70s.\n\nThrough her access to previously unpublished archival material
 s and direct interviews with the artist\, Woods provides close readings of
  pivotal works\, disclosing the ways Knowles instituted formal tactics tha
 t moved beyond modernist painting\, championed principles of indeterminacy
  and chance\, and fostered sociopolitical consciousness. Situating Knowles
 ’s innovations in various media within the distinct cultural contexts of
  Wiesbaden\, London\, Paris\, New York City\, and Los Angeles\, "Performin
 g Chance" brings this key artist back to her rightful place as a leader of
  the postwar avant-garde and provides a nuanced history of the role of wom
 en artists in Fluxus and beyond.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nNicole L. Woods is
  an art historian of modern and contemporary art in the College of Communi
 cation and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University. Her research focuses 
 on the Euro-American neo-avant-gardes\, performance and conceptual art\, i
 ntersectional feminism\, critical theory\, globalism and taste cultures\, 
 and the history of photography and time-based media. In addition to her mo
 nograph on pioneering American artist\, Alison Knowles\, Woods is the scho
 larly consultant for the first museum survey of her life and work\, "by Al
 ison Knowles: A Retrospective\, 1960-2022\," which debuted at Berkeley Art
  Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2022 and is now on its European tour t
 hrough 2026. The exhibition catalogue\, of which she was the lead author\,
  has won design and “best art book” awards. \n\nHer research has also 
 been generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art
 s (Arts Writers Grant)\; The Getty Research Institute\, Los Angeles\; The 
 Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA)\, National Gallery of
  Art\, Washington\, D.C.\; the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in t
 he Fine Arts\, Chicago\, IL\; and the Institute for Scholarship in the Lib
 eral Arts\, University of Notre Dame. Before joining LMU\, she taught at t
 he University of Notre Dame and the University of California\, Irvine.\n\n
 About the William H. Hannon Library\n\nThe William H. Hannon Library foste
 rs excellence in academic achievement through an array of distinctive serv
 ices that enable learners to feed their curiosity\, experience new worlds\
 , develop their ideas\, inform their decision-making\, and inspire others.
  More information can be found at http://library.lmu.edu\n\nFor more infor
 mation about this event\, contact the Outreach and Engagement team at the 
 William H. Hannon library via email at library.outreach@lmu.edu or call 31
 0-338-5234.
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SUMMARY:Faculty Pub Night: Nicole Woods on "Performing Chance: The Art of A
 lison Knowles In/Out of Fluxus"
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 erforming-chance-the-art-of-alison-knowles-inout-of-fluxus
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