Red Beans All Day invites each visitor to have a delicious bowl of red beans prepared by Alison Knowles and to bring one red object to share with her. The artist asks guests to place each red object within a prepared grid on the Cathedral’s floor. Some of the objects will be used in her upcoming series of prints.

Red Beans All Day is part of Alison Knowles' ongoing series Celebration Red. Last month, Knowles participated in the Parisian exhibition Take Me (I’m Yours), curated by Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Chiara Parisi at Monnaie de Paris, where she presented Homage To Each Red Thing, an installation of red objects brought by people from all over the City.

The Value of Food artist Alison Knowles will present one of her performance pieces at the Cathedral as part of her larger exhibition piece, Bean Musings: A Survey of Bean Works Since 1962. Knowles was active in the Fluxus movement of the 1960s, working alongside artists such as Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. A graduate of New York’s Pratt Art Institute, her work incorporates performance, sound, papermaking, and printmaking. One of her best-known pieces, Make a Salad, has been performed numerous times around the world, including at the High Line in 2012.