Put Your Bitterness By
A National Bitter Melon Council Performance and Public Intervention, 2011 International Pickling Day Festival, Lower East Side, New York, NY Put your Bitterness By was a site-specific intervention at the International Pickling Day Festival of the Food Museum in New York, NY. The National Bitter Melon Council joined pickling enthusiasts from NYC and beyond to celebrate all things preserved, fermented, and put by. The festival was filled with vendors of fermented pickles,...
Read MoreWhite 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...
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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 MoreAll for Free (Free for All?)
An Interactive Performance Installation, 2008 Contaminate II Performance Festival, Midway Studios, Fort Point, Boston, MA Duration: 4.5 Hours All for Free (Free for All?) was a collaborative, site-specific, durational performance. Dressed in men’s suits and heavily made-up, I, in collaboration with Catherine D’Ignazio, presented identically packaged goods – all acquired for free – to the public while smiling continuously. In this piece, D’Ignazio and I were exploring the question of...
Read MoreThe National Bitter Melon Council
The National Bitter Melon Council (NBMC) is a social experiment that uses the form and concept of performance art as a research method and model for community development. Our dialogue-based artistic collaborations involve participation and co-authorship of the public. A project and collective developed by Hiroko Kikuchi, Jeremy Liu, and Andi Sutton, with the additional collaboration of Misa Saburi from 2008 – 2011, the NBMC is devoted to the cultivation of a vibrant, diverse...
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