Limited CV •
Andrew Fremont-Smith
and (at) andharbor (dot) com
All performance works written, directed, designed and performed by AFS, unless otherwise noted.
2011
Research & Development project of abandoned and former highly-instrumental industrial spaces in the U.S. (Dead Malls, Industrial areas of Detroit, upstate NY, South Carolina towns, areas in Miami, etc.) - late May through early July. Zhana Ivanova --Grant for research and development from Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (Amsterdam Funds for the Arts).
Collaborator, co-direction of Open Call -- a performance with Andreas Bachmair. More information here
Advisor to Zhana Ivanova's piece B-Sides, performed at Hetveem Theater in Amsterdam
2010
Dramaturgy for Andreas Bachmair's special version of It Is What It Is, in tandem with the exhibit De Haag, Netherlands. Developed in collaboration with Bachmair, new sections and specific problematics to create a work which intervenes and re-problematizes the relationship of popular, generalized european self-conciousness and the specter of the global 'other' of former colonial states. Video from performance here
2009
Wolf Station - click here for pics from performances. click here for production notes.
Magic/Not Magic Show - Concept by Janneke Raaphorst. Actions, Scene ideas and development by AFS and JR. Performed as magician. April. Amsterdam.
Script Development and Advisor for Andreas Bachmair's If....Then
Sister ID - Performance work in progress
Fran Banklin - Video performance work. Concept and direction by Rebecca Major. character text and performance by AFS.
various photo series works (see links at left), art website constructions and other visual art work.
*Further notes on Works in Progress* click here to read notes on rough ideas, at my sketchpad site.
2008
An Inquiry Concerning Displacement And Its Political Unconcious - during the Independent Trajectory at DasArts I engaged in questions of displacement at both an ontological level, and at a political level. Numerous small performances and short video works were made to experiment with the research work in both areas of the subject. The culmination was the performance of Betty Nixon. Amsterdam.
Betty Nixon - with actor Hilt de Vos. minimalist solo performance with video elements. Video was used, in strict synchronization to the live performance-- in scenes of spectacle movements of the character -- she in mass, public space. In private space we saw her in constant displacements (subtle shifts which sustain a system of normalcy, and perpetually defer access to subjective acting upon real desire). The Nixon era was situated with costume, style and a soundscape of President Nixon, Kissinger and Pat Nixon voices, suggesting a constant inner/outer world to the character we witness.
performer in Deja Vu by Zhana Ivanova.
2007
Verify - performance. solo. walking and fragmentary gestures abstractly refering/channeling experiences during time in Australia in Cape York. soundscape composed of elements from education films of mid-1950's Australia. performed in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Blindfold One - structured performance for creator and stranger. see here
Blindfold Untold - Three performers. Love, its blindspots, and its cycles. Broken by an oracle figure of strange memories of lost historical figures...
Redman - video work see here
The Art Tomato Show - collaboration with Luc Van Esch, Voin De Voin & Cille Lansade. Television show in its last days, falls apart from its own 'weight' of end-points, as the producer is heard arguing with an unheard voice regarding the nature of art and artists in today's highly communicative culture: "no, no, no.. not every artist has to have a website!... ok, but Beuy's is dead!...". Tomatoes were available for the audience to throw. The use of tomatoes was a direct and clearly playful reference to the Tomato Revolution in Holland. This was an event in the late 60's which literally changed the spaces and history of theater in the Netherlands. Performed at DasArts Open Lab Block 26. Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Last Message - solo performance. hardcore music and r n' b on headphones are danced to, on a stage of broken elements. text voice over radio show regarding cynicism, entertainment and how to understand the sacrifice of a political person for a just but widely (in modern western cities) unknown 'cause'. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Competition International And The Pink Crocodile - Collaboration with Cille Lansade and Camilla Fehr Ulrich. Fashion Expo Performance Events, Arnhem, Netherlands
Low - series of photographs in largely objectivist mode. In and near Charleston, South Carolina. Online samples here
2006
Navigators Intervision/Blue Screen - A performance within a performance of a larger general multi-performative event. A large blue screen stage space was installed where videos (in simulation of a live television channel were ongoing), interspliced like a television channel late at night, with with live performances including my own (Nocturnal, Weatherman, Missing Actress) and by Voin De Voin, Sarah van Lamswerde, Esther Mugambi, Janneke Raaphorst, Andreas Bachmair, and more.
Direct Address - ongoing series of solo improvisation semi-personal/lecture formats on subjects of cliches, the "other", and further observatons in Australia. performed in Melbourne, Australia.
Network Theory - collaboration with Zhana Ivanova. Utilizing object oriented programming, as a template for actions performed on stage by a set of performers. Hence, a combination of arbitrary determinants (beyond intention) and a systemic overall cohesion were negotiated by the performers. 4 performers. Melbourne, Australia.
Multiple Nature – Photo works, Rewind Group Show, SW Gallery, NY
Coyote City Central – combined media
Field Gate - multichannel minimalist sound and video performance piece - work in progress
Berlin Untitled - photo work
Orchard Noir video by Rebecca Major - cinematography
2005
Sound Design: Cell Phones, LaMama, NYC
Driving on The Left Side, NYC
Micro-collage & Soundscape/Abstract Hop performances in various venues.
Photo works: NYC, South Carolina, Berlin, Phoenix
2004
Anoise broadcasts during the Republican National Convention 2004, in solidarity with the protests. Co-founder, producer and host of the August Sound Coalition which created a popular Art and Action Radio station coincident with the 2004 Republican National Convention and protests in New York City, and subsequently received a Best of 2004 music in Art Forum. The Anoise station was a week long event of virtually 24 hour broadcasting, listened to by 500,000 listeners on the net, broadcast simultaneously on numberous radio stations in the U.S., as well as Italy, Germany and other nations. Broadcasts included interviews with scholars, activists, live call-ins from the street, artists and musicians, such as Pauline Oliveros, Naomi Klein and Simon Sanchez, among many others. Samples from the Archive here
Kite - minimalist sound work
Temperature - micro-collage sound work
2003
Swarm Cell Soundscape/Abstract Hop & Illbient DJ events - collaboration with Pasha Radetzki and Peter Lew. Three events - multiple performers at one time. Various venues, such as CBGB's Underground, NYC.
Micro-collage sound work
Sound Design for video piece - Elf by Rebecca Major
International Containment Tower - Recession 2003 Group Show, Cynthia Broan Gallery
2002
Rocker - Solo performance. Site specific, two day performance. 10 hour performance per day. Times Square storefront. NYC
Office Place - Site specific, two day performance in continuous cycles. Five Performers. Times Square storefront window, NYC
Phony Lounge - experimental sound and video performance events -- soundscape performer -- two events. NYC
2001
Winner Takes Mall - Solo performance. AFS. Site specific. Two day performance. 10 hour performance per day. Times Square storefront window. NYC
Education
2006-2009
graduate
DasArts - Post-graduate Advanced Studies Program in the Performing Arts. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Research and performative responses as part of Navigators block in Australia. Developed work which engaged in issues of multi-cultural direct address performance modes also work which explored the continuing legacy of repressive nation-building, spectacle and the Colonial Other. Subsequent block was an exploration of Badiou's conceptual developments, stemming out of his adaptation of set theory and his re-articulation of truth procedures, as well as his ideas concerning the Event. Developed works which explored the process of identifying truth, in the here and now.
undergraduate
State University of New York (SUNY) - Empire State College - Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies and Photography
Extensive readings and studies in Antonio Gramsci, Raymond Williams, Walter Benjamin, Frederic Jameson, Taylor and others. Ontological/Theological studies in Existential and Late Existential Judao-Christian thought (Bonhoffer, Levinas, Buber's I and Thou, etc.)
Independent Study with photographer Roy DeCarava
Hunter College, NYC - Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Film History
University of Arizon, Tucson - Photography, Art History, English
Other Experience
Internship with video artist, Dara Birnbaum
Extensive consultant and advisor role in numerous projects (performance, video, research studies)
Decorative Painter: Classic and Modern Finishes (gilding, venetian finish, strie, glaze, tromp l'oiel, etc.), Renovation work.
Research & Development - Documentary Film and Television - Magnum Photos, NYC
Research & Development; Board of Directors - Impact Visuals Photo Agency Cooperative, NYC