Conceived as theater in the round, The Sundance Kid is Beautiful presents Christopher Knowles, the multitalented poet, linguist, performer, and visual artist. This sixty-minute solo work—performed within Knowles’s ICA exhibition—features the artist performing multiple actions in different time and scale registers in concert with more than a dozen short texts, including selections from his libretto for Robert Wilson and Phillip Glass’s landmark opera Einstein on the Beach. Lighting and sculptural props silhouette and magnify Knowles in a landscape-like environment so that he becomes a larger-than-life character inside his own universe. Knowles employs a distinctly rigorous yet playful logic to explore the relationships between language, sign, and meaning where the stage is fashioned as a veritable illustrated snapshot of his world, one in which the artist and audience can join in celebration. The result is a deeply intimate introduction into the radiant and subterranean work of Christopher Knowles.

Free registration required, chairs and floor seating will be available.

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Ticket holders, please arrive promptly, as entrance to the performance will close at 6:35pm. The exhibition Christopher Knowles: In a Word will be closed to visitors without performance tickets from 5:30pm to 8pm.