NOTHING#20: a bluff (protozone)

Performance, Duration ca. 45min

20.09.2025 20h – European Premiere

21.09.2025 18h

Drawing from her training in theater and the psychology of group dynamics, New York–based artist Autumn Knight makes performances that reshape perceptions of race, gender, and authority. NOTHING#20: a bluff (protozone) is the third and final part of Autumn Knight’s investigation into the Italian concept of “dolce far niente,” the sweetness of doing nothing.

Presented on Saturday September 20 and Sunday, September 21, a bluff, is just that. Using her training as an improviser and the inexhaustible possibilities each audience member brings, Knight alone on stage responds improvisationally to the space, its architecture, its audience, pointedly launching from the potentiality—both the sweetness and desolation—of nothingness.

NOTHING#20: a bluff (protozone) is a continued consideration within the artist’s body of work—on economies of time, attention, and survival, and the creative role within those realms.

Please note: NOTHING#20 (protozone): a bluff contains mature content.

Autumn Knight is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video, and text. Knight’s video and performance work has been presented by various institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, The Kitchen (New York), and Performance Space New York. Knight is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Arts and a 2022-2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.