I’m a visual artist working in performance, public engagement and participatory practice. My work explores themes of place, belonging, memory and history and our embodied and sensory relationships to these topics.
MONUMENTAL INTERVENTIONS
Monumental Interventions aka Monumental: Fifty years of Creative Memory Activism in Toronto is a participatory walking tour project developed for Heritage Toronto that explores the ways in which artists have engaged with and transformed Toronto’s commemorative landscape.
Between Memories is a self-guided walking tour created by myself and my partner Elenore Chesnutt. The walk follows the stories, learnings and sensory experiences that accompanied our daily walking rituals during the early days of the ongoing pandemic. The project was created for Celia Beketa and Minnar Xie‘s Swap-A-Walk program which took place during Jane’s Walk Toronto 2021.
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When I Was Young was a performance of over four and a half hours of music from 7″ singles collected by my father from 1959 – 1978.
The resulting “audio portrait” was conceived as a gift to my father on his 73rd birthday. The performance was hosted by Seance Centre Records at their store and event space in Toronto.
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TRANSMISSION
Transmission is an interactive, audio visual installation created by the Lost Souls of Saturn to accompany their eponymous LP on R&S Records.
The installation premiered during Art Basel 2019 and is currently on exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery London as part of Sweet Harmony: Rave Today through September 12, 2019.
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NO BLUE JEANS, NO NICE SWEATERS, NO BIG BOP REJECTS
A commissioned work for the Queen St. West BIA as part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche – NBJNNSNBBR, is an interactive walking tour of Toronto, and Queen St. West’s Goth subculture, fashion and music history that combined performance, community story telling and a midnight Goth dance flash mob. The work takes its name from the famous dress code for Toronto’s legendary and notorious Sanctuary Vampire Sex Bar night club.
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PATHS: PRACTICING ART THROUGH HIDE-AND-SEEK
An exercise in detournement, PATHS explores the structural limits placed on urban space -particularly Toronto’s 32km underground PATH network, Canada’s largest commercial/retail development. Through the popular childhood game of hide and seek, participants consistently transgress, test, reclaim and blur boundaries between the public and private space and imagine new possibilities for the way we interact with the urban environment.
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ART S.E.A.L.S: ART SKILLS EXCHANGE AND LEARNING SERIES
Art S.E.A.L.S: A Survival Skills Training Guide is a multidisciplinary performance series developed by artists Alana Bartol and Andrew Lochhead aka “The A-Team”, that explores the relationships between artistic and non-artistic labour as engaged in by professional artists from Windsor and Hamilton, Ontario, through a series of inter-municipal artist exchanges, consisting of performance-based, interactive workshops and panel discussions. The series was featured as part of the 2014 Windsor-Essex Triennial of Art.
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CARTOGRAPHY OF IMAGINED COMMUNITIES
Cartography of Imagined Communities is a performance and mapping project in which Benedict Andersons 1972 work, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism is translated using the “art and science” of heraldry. The work explores the the visual language of the nation-state, nationalism and national identity and their relationships to expressions of personal identity. The project was featured in a special issue of WhiteWalls, focussing on mapping and edited by Adelheid Mers.
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IS THAT ALL THERE IS? PT. II
A second iteration of the collaborative work between Andrea Slavik and I, as AndrewandAndrea that deploys the title of Lieber & Stoller’s 1957 hit song for Peggy Lee as a slogan for the Post-Captialist era and explores the dynamics and tensions between public art and private space in the urban environment. This time in the form of aerial advertising. Is That All There Is? was presented as part of the Chicago Festival of Maps
A collaborative and community-engaged work between Andrea Slavik and I, as AndrewandAndrea that explored critical play-based interventions into gallery space.
The event and accompanying video installation at the DePaul University Art Museum were part of the Nomadic Studio series curated by The Stockyard Institute: Jim Duignan, Faiz Razi and Beth Weidner
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WALKING WEST PULLMAN
Walking West Pullman was a series of community lead walking tours that explored the natural, social and economic history of the West Pullman, Chicago’s furthest south neighbourhood.
IS THAT ALL THERE IS? PT. I
The first major collaboration between Andrea Slavik and I as AndrewandAndrea, engages in a critique of the visual culture of urban space and public art in the era of globalization, a discussion of the post-modern condition and how globalization and commodity fetishism operate within the art world, specifically within the culture of a “Biennial” exhibition. Presented as part of the 2007 Windsor Biennial at the Art Gallery of Windsor