Interview with Alison Knowles by Larry Miller
Excerpt from a series of videotape interviews

Now on view at Grey Art Museum, NYC in exhibition  by Alison Knowles 

Why was anonymity of authorship one of the most important intentions of this event?

How did randomized pricing thwart the gallery system?

This interview centers upon one of the main components of the Sissor Bros. Warehouse events that has a lasting presence – BLINK, an 18 x18 inch silk screen on canvas, stretched onto frames, in multiples – an icon that stands in for the greater implications of the scope of the events.

At that time, between 1962 and 1964, there were questions about what constituted pop art, the embrace of new techniques, typified by Knowles’s outstanding silk-screen practice, and concerning the definitions of high art in the commercial market.

This interview with Alison was the first of a series with her on a wide range of topics. Interviews with Robert Watts in the early 1980s added historical details about his trip to L.A. with Knowles and described their week of participatory activities.

Videotaped in 1990 at Alison Knowles Studio, NYC.

Larry Miller Videotape Archive Reference No. HE23