The Debris of an Unknown Celebration is a 60-minute collection of music that revolves around blue, the color of the suspended cyanotypes that made up McKnight’s first museum commission, Light Falls at MoCA Tucson, 2021.
Available via MoCA Tucson
Tracklist:
The Platters, Twilight Time
Nina Simone, Mood Indigo
Bebel Gilberto, Tout est bleu
R. Stevie Moore, Blue Angel (Roy Orbison cover)
Michael Hurley, Blue Driver
The Clovers, Blue Velvet
Chet Baker, Born to be Blue
The Style Council, Have You Ever Had it Blue
Liberace, Love is Blue (L'amour est bleu)
Rita Coolidge, Am I Blue?
Nina Simone, Little Girl Blue
Jane Birkin, Periode bleue
Dorothy Moore, Misty Blue
Willie Nelson, Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Edith Piaf, Chanson bleue
King Krule, Baby Blue
Roland Kirk, Celestial Blues
The Fleetwoods, Mr. Blue
Ella Fitzgerald, Blue Skies
Elvis Presley, Blue Moon (Take 9/M)
Them, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan cover)
Neil Diamond, Song Sung Blue
Mark Armijo McKnight (b. Los Angeles, CA) is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and written about in The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Interview, GQ, Aperture, Art in America, Frieze, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Mousse, and BOMB, among others. His work is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ICA Miami, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Columbus Museum of Art.
His first monograph, Heaven Is a Prison, was published in 2020, followed by Posthume, published by TBW Books in 2025. Armijo McKnight is a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of the 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize, the 2020 Light Work Photo Book Award, a 2020 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, and a 2023–24 Guggenheim Fellowship.
He is Assistant Professor of Expanded Photography at Rutgers University.
Represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend (New York)
Posthume (2025) published by TBW Books
Heaven is a Prison (2020) published by Loose Joints