~The elements conspire against nature~

John Knight

Salt Lake City, Utah
September 12-13, 2019

Excerpt from, “Letter from a prisoner in the isolation wing: June 16, 1972 - February 9, 1973”:

The feeling your head is exploding (the feeling the top of your skull should really tear apart, burst wide

open)—

The feeling your spinal column is pressing into your brain—

The feeling your brain is gradually shriveling up, like baked fruit—

The feeling you’re completely and surreptitiously wired, under remote control—

-Ulrike Meinhof

The elements conspire against nature is an exploration of labor and departure under capitalism. This

exhibition eyes an unnatural landscape of readymades. Fabricated from sites of industrial labor, objects

taken from prison-wings, famine histories and waste piles, Knight’s turns turns toward detention and

mechanization, and attempts poetry in the face of work-as-liberty.