Autumn Knight
Nothing #62: a bluff
Theatre / performance
Nothing #62: a bluff is the third part of Autumn Knights’s investigation into the Italian concept of “dolce far niente” – the sweetness of nothingness. Knight is alone, responding spontaneously to a space, its features, and its audience. a bluff is a deliberation on our economies of time, attention, and survival, and the creative role within those realms. It works within the inexhaustible possibilities each audience member brings.
At once compelling, confronting, perhaps funny, and awkward, this is a masterwork of new performance. Drawing from her training in theater and the psychology of group dynamics, Knight makes performances that reshape our perceptions of race, gender, and authority.
“Autumn leads with humor and curiosities in really incredible ways, …[a]t the end, seems like you have been cared for, even if you have gone through a few layers of complexity.” Ryan Dennis, ARTnews
The Dark: PS21’s fearless winter festival of live performance radiating across Columbia County
The Dark is a new annual festival from PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance that celebrates and elevates the depths of winter. Taking place February 16–22, 2026, the festival will unfold at PS21 and across Columbia County—in theatres, restaurants, libraries, saunas, and outdoor public spaces. Featuring more than 60 international artists and over 80 performances, The Dark offers a packed week of world-class contemporary performance, installation, music, dance, and theatre—all exploring winter as a time of community and solitude, fire and ice, darkness and light. A major new attraction for the region, the festival positions Columbia County as a year-round cultural destination—not just a summer one.
It is a light in the dark—and The Dark is the light.
Secure your Festival Pass to The Dark now which includes tickets to every performance along with a complimentary sauna and ice skating session!
Nothing #62: a bluff is a National Performance Network Creation and Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Performance Space New York, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and REDCAT; LA.
Autumn Knight is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working with performance, video, sound, and text. Her work has been on view at various institutions including Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA), Shedhalle (Zurich), The Whitney Museum of American Art, PICA (Portland Institute of Contemporary Art), The Kitchen, MCA Chicago, Museum Ostwall (Germany), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Performance Space New York, REDCAT, and The Walker Art Center.
Her performance work, WALL, is the first live performance work acquired for the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Knight is the recipient of various awards, grants, honors and fellowships including Artadia Award, Art Matters Grant, Anonymous Was a Woman, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Art, Guggenheim Fellowship, Harpo Foundation Grant and most recently the Trellis Art Fund.
While this performance does not have reserved seating, we are happy to accommodate any specific accessibility needs.
Please reach out to Adriana at boxoffice@ps21chatham.org, and she will coordinate with our front-of-house team to ensure your experience is comfortable and enjoyable.
