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 MoreBetter Living through Bitter Melon: A Manual
A National Bitter Melon Council Publication, 2010 In 2010 the National Bitter Melon Council published its first ever book titled, Better Living through Bitter Melon: A Manual, a how-to book that touches on the flavor, the emotion, and the philosophy of Bitter Melon. Untitled from Andi Sutton on Vimeo. The manual is a combination recipe book, farmer’s almanac, Fluxus performance kit, and documentation strategy. Created with the help of a group of graphic design students from...
Read MoreWearable Gardens
A Platform2 Participatory Performance, 2011 Arnold Arboretum, Boston, MA On a sunny, unseasonably warm October afternoon, nine people gathered in a circle and wrote a story. The story was of a tree seed – the sugar maple – at risk of survival due to the environmental impacts of climate change, and the possibilities of its migration north. It was a story in action and of action, told next to a 200 year old Sugar Maple at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts,...
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