Rob Andrews
Rob Andrews is an artist and teacher based in Brooklyn. His work focuses on enacting rituals and telling stories using his own body and the bodies of others. He steals from tradition, religious practice, and from his collaborators in an attempt to get their stories wrong on purpose in order to make them right in another way. His practice involves personal intervention into the muck of inherited mythology, public actions, and volunteer and forced collaborations. Rob has shown work at the Museum of Modern Art, Exit Art, Grace Exhibition Space, and English Kills Art Gallery in New York as well as in collaboration with other innovative public programs like 40*PHI Art in the Parks.
Rob's work will be featured this October in the Art in Odd Places Festival. His first solo show, Door Work, , opens October 22nd at English Kills Gallery. He'll also be creating a public performance in Bitola, Macedonia as part of the Exchange Radical Moments festival on 11.11.11.
Rob's work will be featured this October in the Art in Odd Places Festival. His first solo show, Door Work, , opens October 22nd at English Kills Gallery. He'll also be creating a public performance in Bitola, Macedonia as part of the Exchange Radical Moments festival on 11.11.11.
Finding the Ritual: A Performance Workshop with Rob Andrews
Saturday, September 25th, 1pm
Rob Andrews is offering a one time workshop on Sunday, September 25th that investigates a strain within his and other contemporary performance artists' work: the use and vocabulary of ritual. In the 90 minute workshop, you will learn about Rob's work and he will demonstrate and discuss the feet cleaning ritual that he has sustained for almost a decade. This work will be performed on a large scale in the Art in Odd Places festival on October 8th in Union Square. Participants in the workshop should be ready to make their own work, explore the physical act of cleaning, investigate the experience through discussion, and design a ritual of their own. Cleaning is healing. Cleaning is nothing. Cleaning is building.
Age 12 and over.
Free to the public.
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Age 12 and over.
Free to the public.
andrewsautomatic.com
twitter.com/#!/andrewsautomat
