February 8, 2009
Guild & Greyshkul Gallery
New York CIty
GUITAR FILM was presented as part of the exhibit ON FROM HERE at Guild & Greyshkul Gallery. Thanks to Sara Vanderbeek and Esme Watanabe,
GUITAR FILM (2009)
A lesson on how to make a film and how not to play guitar. A film in two parts with a large gap in the middle. The "story" is heard in the continuous audio. Featuring the very patient Melinda Shopsin.
I curated the second half of May 2008 at The Stone, an East Village music and performance venue operated under the auspices of John Zorn.
She came to every show.
2008 International Film Festival Rotterdam
Netherlands
The second performance of SWEETHEARTS, this time in Dutch and English.
Shot by Jeanne Liotta
“…archivist/programmer/projector performance artist Andrew Lampert, whose delightful Fluxus homage, the live piece SWEETHEARTS, involved three 16mm machines projecting the letters A, B and C, and two women to the sides of the screens reading and responding to survey questions in English and Dutch that ask the audience to divide themselves into groups based on answers to increasingly intimate questions. With Lampert darting back and forth between the control table and the clanking projectors, the piece combined the handmade chaos of 1960s underground art with a computer-age nod to binary classification, where all information can be reduced to 0s and 1s. It also reduced the idea of projection and audience involvement to its most elemental level, making it fit into the overall framework of the “Sharits in Context” program to which it belonged.” – David Schwartz, Chief Curator of the Museum of the Moving Image writing for sensesofcinema.com
“Dear Holland,
It’s time that we discussed the situation. Lets be open with each other. I mean, how long can we avoid our hearts? To find shared ground we must first speak a common language. How else can we have a dialogue? Through the movies? There is some land and water between us, Holland, but still I’d like to get closer. You understand that New York City is a lonely place for an American guy. Lets rendezvous in the secret drawing room, spill our secrets on your parlour bed. Is there a Europe we can slip away to? A mountain hideaway we might call our own? We wouldn’t need much, a little grass bed, maybe a pillow, my coat makes a fine blanket. You and me together, exchanging long glances, in harmony intertwined, Holland. I’ll meet you there.”
February 21, 2008
The Starlight Cinema
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alan Licht and I teamed up to take down Madison. Our attack began on the airwaves.
November 30, 2007
Tesla
Berlin, Germany
The premiere of SWEETHEARTS, later revived at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2008.
November 9 & 10, 2007
The Kitchen
New York City
A collaboration with Okkyung Lee (composer, cello) featuring Migeul Frasconi (glass, electronics), Trevor Dunn (bass), Cornelius Duffalo (viola), Emily Davis and Jared Abramson.
Photo by Jared Abrmanson
Breakfast in Scotland
MAJOR CONDITIONAL performed at Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee Contemporary Arts, March 2007. Featuring Steve Beresford (piano), Steve Dalachisnsky (voice), Okkyung Lee (cello) and Mark Sanders (percussion). Dedicated to Oscar Levant.
June 11, 2006
Sculpture Center
New York City
VEXED was my contribution to the eight-hour performance of Erik Satie's VEXATIONS (1893) organized by Kenny Goldsmith at The Sculpture Center in Long Island City. Featuring the voice and presence of Steve Dalachinsky.
Audio and a full description can be found on ubu
Saties' score for VEXATIONS (1893)
In November 2005, I co-organized (with Esa Nickle, for PERFORMA 05) a three-week exhibit at White Box, a gallery in New York City. Artists included Free103.9, Jim O'Rourke, Bruce McClure and The Loudmouth Collective/Ugly Duckling Press.
September 29, 2005
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA
Surveying the Border: Three Decades of Video Art about the United States and Mexico
SURVEYING THE BORDER: THREE DECADES OF VIDEO ART ABOUT THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO
This 90-minute program presents some of the best short video works made by artists since the mid-1970s that take the relation between the United States and Mexico as their subject matter. The program screens videos that address the experience of immigration and the subsequent reality of living in the neighboring country, including provocative political works by a number of artist activists. More lyrical pieces focus on urban and rural landscapes, while other works comment on the humorous absurdity of stereotypes. The evening encompasses a number of genres of video, including conceptual and performance art, experimental documentary, short fiction, and music video.
SURVEYING THE BORDER features work by artists based in Southern California, Tijuana, New York, Mexico City, Florida, El Paso, and Oaxaca. Artists include Greg Berger, Ira Scheider, Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo (BAW/TAF), Alan Calpe, Ximena Cuevas, Nathan Gibbs, Guillermo Gधmez-Peña, Art Jones, Andrew Lampert, Jesse Lerner, Yoshua Okon, Sal V. Ricalde, Alex Rivera, Shannon Spanhake, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Bruno Varela, Willie Varela, and others.
Please join us following the screening for a discussion between artists Ximena Cuevas, Andrew Lampert, and Rubén Ortiz Torres moderated by Rita Gonzalez, assistant curator at the Center for Art of the Americas at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
October 24, 2000
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema
New York City
Bradley Eros kindly included me in this show even though I had already screened my work in NYC and even at the Robert Beck. I don't recall what BACKWARDS FILM is but imagine that at the time I thought it to be a good camera roll. Sound is Brion Gysin's THE POOL K III.
Jonas Mekas asked me if I had 1001 Polaroids. I did. He gave me a show in the Courthouse Gallery in 2000.
CASIO 99
Baktun
New York City
For some forgotten reason Stom Sogo and I were given an evening to stage the event CASIO 99 at Baktun, the lounge formerly above The Cooler on 14th St. in the old meatpacking district. At midnight we held a free form Casio jam with people playing keyboards, watches, appliances, etc. It was a show so big that we made three flyers.
September 25, 1998
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema
145 Ludlow St.
I showed an aborted edit of THE WORST MISTAKE I EVER MADE in the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema show of unfinshed/abandoned films. I remember that Henry Hills and M. Henry Jones also screened.
