Color photograph of the head and shoulders of Autumn Knight, standing outdoors against a peach-orange stone wall

Autumn Knight

Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize
September 6, 2021–July 22, 2022
Profession
Artist, New York
Project title
Attention Economy
Project description

The proposed project, Attention Economy, is a continued investigation within a body of performance and video works focusing on economies of time, attention, and survival and the creative role within those realms. Asking the question: what do I demand within this economy as an artist and what do I require as a human surviving a plague? The critical concepts anchoring my inquiry are historical/contemporary interpretations and functionality of action/inaction and the Italian concept of dolce far niente—the sweetness of doing nothing. The proposed project intends to utilize choreography, text, sound, animation, and digital/cinematic video as a means of reorganizing a relational experience with “doing nothing” as potential personal, creative, political, and survival strategies. Employing the visual culture of Italy, the project uses architecture, public movement, and collaboration as choreographic material.