INSTRUCTIONS FOR A FIGHT (with Chelsea Knight), 2017
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the artist

Instructions for a Fight consists of documentation of a rehearsal Autumn and Chelsea Knight took part in while preparing for a live performance at the New Museum in NYC in 2015. The piece is overlaid with the voice of our male instructor, who elevates our feeling of aggression and violence towards our goal: blurring the line between a real fight and a parallel space of play. Throughout the piece, what is alluded to but omitted is the boundary between physical and mental safety, which mirrors cultural illusions about both kinds of safe spaces. The piece is interested in the mimicry and language of violence.

Made in collaboration with Chelsea Knight.

MANIFEST (with Chelsea Knight), 2018
Pioneer Works, New York, NY
Photo Credit: Walter Wlodarczyk

Audre Lorde’s 1981 text “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” provides us with many insights about anger, namely “Anger is loaded with information and energy.” Knight + Knight's previous works addressed more latent, or below the surface aspects of anger in regards to psychoanalysis, feminism and racialized social structures. Manifest is a an exploration of what happens when latent sources of rage are made manifest, and therefore political. Chelsea Knight and Autumn Knight dive into this by using text, sound and expressions of both intimacy and aggression to create an environment to work through rage as a productive form of discourse.

Made in collaboration with Chelsea Knight.

DERELICTS DISH, 2016

Derelicts Dish is a audio work wherein collaboratives Autumn Knight and Chelsea Knight discuss a range of topics: oral personal histories, the recent presidential election, and a mystery birthday gift with racial overtones.