This exhibition springs from The House of Dust, a seminal yet under-recognized late 1960s work by Fluxus artist Alison Knowles. Originally called The Play House, this intermedia piece serves as an entry point into contemporary investigation of the relationships between architecture, technology, and performance. In a text titled Shelter or Playground, R.M. Schindler described his house as a “playground” that “grows with its inhabitants” and where “life will regain its fluidity.” Today, the house open its doors to contemporary artists who have been invited to produce site-specific works, responding to both architectures by Schindler and Knowles and translating them into multiple performative forms.

Opera Povera at the Schindler House was a program highlighting the work of the experimental opera company with open rehearsals, two performances, and an accompanying display of related dramaturgy featuring the artists, designers, composers and performers with whom Opera Povera has created new works.

Co-presented by the MAK Center and SASSAS, sound. at the Schindler House: Tape Music was a rare concert of music composed for reel-to-reel tape. The unique architecture of the Schindler House created multiple areas in which this historic form was revisited.