"Avant-Garde Pioneer Alison Knowles Gets Her Due – Ahead of her retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Knowles reflected on her early experiences touring with other Fluxus artists in the 1960s—including the time she was, lore has it, hit in the face with a tomato. “There was a lot of aggression about what we did onstage,” she said. “I remember people would stand up and leave—and often did. But I had work to do, I performed the work no matter what.”