Boston Coastline: Future Past
Boston Coastline: Future Past was a “walking data visualization,” performed in Boston in June 2015, in which 40 participants walked parts of this virtual coastline as a way to understand — with their bodies — the future and past of a city that is changing at scales that are difficult to see and comprehend. Along the way, walkers wore messages that they composed about their hopes, fears and grief for the future, and used them to stencil temporary graffiti messages on the paths of...
Read MoreGardens of the Future: Conversation in Memorial
Sculptural installation, exhibited at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (2012) and Wheaton College (2013) Gardens of the Future: Conversation in Memorial is a habitat for conversation and contemplation built out of the invasive plant Oriental Bittersweet, a rapidly spreading vine that grows voraciously throughout the East Coast. Since 2011, through an ongoing series of dialogue-based performances in hand-woven sculptures for two, Sutton has collected over 200 future extinctions:...
Read MoreComposing the Future: Extinction/Loss
Participatory performance as part of Boston Coastline: Future/Past with Catherine D’Ignazio. Part of the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum’s exhibition Walking Sculpture: 1967-2015. Performed on June 16, 2015 This project invited participants who attended the performance walk Boston Coastline: Future/Past to create a collaborative sidewalk-stenciled timeline of the future vis a vis extinction and loss. Since 2011, through an ongoing series of dialogue-based...
Read MoreLast Gasp Radio
A collaborative project with Heather Kapplow Exhibited at Boston Does Boston 8, Proof Gallery, Boston, MA 2015 In late-2014 Andi Sutton and fellow artist Heather Kapplow started discovering discarded devices at second hand stores, each with the same archaic symbol embedded in it in some way. These objects, when “tuned” by the artists using materials lying around in their respective studios, were found to pull down sounds from the ether – last gasps – of creatures,...
Read MoreBiodegradable Pink Flamingo Lawn Ornaments and Climate Change
Before the exhibition Work Out at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Rebecca Uchill – cultural producer and contributor to the exhibition catalog – interviewed me about the piece. Her questions were thought provoking – encouraging me to write down thoughts that were already bubbling in my head and my conversations as I was developing this installation. I’m glad to share some of them here, with more posts to...
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