The word-based art and performances crafted by world-renowned artist Alison Knowles (b.1933) are central to the 1960s international Fluxus movement and its enduring legacy. Describing her experience as a student at Pratt University in the 1950s where she learned from Richard Lindner and Adolf Gottlieb, Knowles recalls her transition from Abstract Expressionist painting to the chance operations initiated by John Cage and Bertolt Brecht. Knowles shares personal anecdotes about the significance of Cage’s historic course on Experimental Composition, the early years of the Judson Theater, and her subsequent Fluxus projects with Dick Higgins, George Maciunas, Emmet Williams, Jim Tenney, and Bill Fontana occurring in the U.S., Europe and Japan.