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Fluxus artist Alison Knowles makes a salad for Earth Day, and for hundreds of spectators, on the High Line
"Make a Salad" is a decidedly less controversial piece, though its creator, New Yorker and Fluxus artist Alison Knowles believes it does have a political "flavor that would not be interesting to the right wing." There are rough guidelines—there is often music; Knowles and her collaborators chop salad ingredients (a massive quantity; on the High Line there was enough salad made for up to 1,000 people); everything is tossed together and then served up to the audience—but every staging is open-ended, unique. The point—or one the of the points—is not in the details of the execution, but in the democracy of the form, of the radical equality that it enforces on its participants, as it did on Sunday on the High Line. More
