White on White (a.k.a. W.o.W. and Win!)
A Site-specific, Participatory Performance Event, 2009 Performed at the international performance festival and conference, “Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the America’s”, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics: 7th Encuentro, Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia, August, 2009 Universidad Nacional de Bogota, Bogota, Colombia, August 2009 South End Studios, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 2009 Mobius Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 2008...
Read MoreThe National Bitter Melon Council Mascot
A National Bitter Melon Council Participatory Public Intervention, (2006 – present) The Topsfield Fair, Topsfield, MA The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN The Boston Metro Area (various locations) During the Topsfield fair (pictured), we traveled fairgrounds as the National Bitter Melon Council Mascot. There, we were observing and understanding the particular culture of the oldest agricultural fair in the USA, disguising ourselves as a friendly mascot for an...
Read MoreSlow: A Public Butoh Workshop
A Platform2 Public intervention, 2010 Downtown Crossing shopping area, Boston, MA DURATION: 90 minutes Performed on March 18, 2010, Platform2 invited choreographer, Alissa Cardone, to give a public Butoh workshop outside during the lunch hour. The economy was slowing down. And through this piece, Platform2 wondered, “could we also slow down?”. Butoh, a meditative dance form developed in Japan after World War II that incorporates actions performed in hyper-slow movement. The dance form came...
Read MoreThe NBMC Enters/Exits Wikipedia
The NBMC Enters/Exits Wikipedia A National Bitter Melon Council Internet Intervention, 2008 www.wikipedia.org In this performance, the National Bitter Melon Council inserted a biography page about itself and the definition of BitterMelon as a vegetable and an artistic medium. As a result of this intervention, the National Bitter Melon Council page and our definition of Bitter Melon was deleted two days after they were uploaded to the WIkipedia site. Pictured is documentation of the...
Read MoreSemiotics of the Sale
A Televised Performance, 2008 Somerville Community Access Television, Somerville, MA DURATION: 20 minutes Semiotics of the Sale was a performance on television that included 20 products whose brand names were also action verbs: Balance™, Cheer™, Refresh™, Cascade™, Pledge™, Repel™, Snuggle™, Shape™, Refresh™, GoLean™, Oust™, Ban™, Console™, Ensure™, Affirm™, Love™, Shout™, Combat™ Semiotics of the Sale from Andi Sutton on Vimeo. In the piece, I...
Read MoreCommunity Supported Agriculture: A Share of Bitter Melon
A National Bitter Melon Council Public Intervention project, 2006 Various kitchens and tongues in Eastern Massachusetts, USA via Farmer Collaborators The food distribution ideology of the National Bitter Melon Council’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) operates using strategies and producing results that parallel Mail Art, a conceptual art practice that emerged in the 1960’s where visual art, sound, poetry, and other whimsical objects were distributed at random...
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