simultaneity

The Creator’s Project – User Preferences: Tech Q&A

andrew — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:34:42 +0000

I was very happy to be featured on The (indefatigably awesome) Creator’s Project site this week.

“The Creators Project is a global network dedicated to the celebration of creativity, culture and technology. Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do. The questions are always the same, the answers, not so much. This week: Andrew Schneider”

The Wooster Group at The Holland Festival

andrew — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:42:44 +0000

TWG is bringing Vieux Carré to the 2011 Holland Festival. Here’s a quick video they produced of some behind the scenes stuff. Unfortunately this was pretty much the morning of day 02 and not much video magic was up and running yet.

BBC World News Interview – Solar Bikini

andrew — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:11:52 +0000

I was thrilled to be able to give this interview about my Solar Bikini with BBC’s Claire Bolderson yesterday afternoon.

Download audio file (BBCinterview.mp3)

Also available as a podcast here.

TWG House Call – Andrew

andrew — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:28:57 +0000

The Wooster Group must really be having some slow news days lately. Either that, or the general public’s cries for insider exposés are finally being heard. Check out my insider profile by the Group below.

Slow news day it is then. You can read the archived notebooks from the k.log here.

THEWOOSTERGROUP new site

andrew — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:54:20 +0000

The Wooster Group has revamped its website. I’ve been part of the team putting it all together. We’ve been posting a new video everyday. To sustain this we’ve been pulling things from the TWG archives, rehearsal clips, readings from reviews, and Zbigniew Bzymek has been documenting our process in a glorious in-progress meta-film. We’re just getting started and I’m excited for the things that are to come.

W+F New York Times Review

andrew — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:05:52 +0000

My latest full-length show, WOW+FLUTTER finished a sold-out run at the incomparably fantastic LIC venue The Chocolate Factory Theater in February. I’ve been compiling the documentation and will be continually posting and updating things here. In the mean time, Claudia La Rocco wrote a review of WOW+FLUTTER in the New York Times. Here it is:

photo: Robert Caplin for The New York Times

The distinctive shaftway connecting the two levels of the Chocolate Factory in Queens is the theatrical gift that keeps on giving. It’s only a matter of time until some enterprising artist eschews this Long Island City theater’s larger stages and makes an entire show in the confines of that brick-lined space.

Last Friday night, Andrew Schneider climbed, slid and threw himself out of (and sometimes down) the passageway during his new evening-length solo, “Wow + Flutter.” He was all over the place — literally and metaphorically — using a harness, interactive projections and custom-built, wearable electronics. Gadgets, almost nonstop babble on themes both esoteric and mundane, numerous pop-culture images and even a brief Michael Jackson dance created a sort of technological id, governed by, to take Mr. Schneider’s words slightly out of context, his “internal head speed.”

The audience was pressed against this id, since Mr. Schneider chose to place the stage area lengthwise in the narrow, white rectangular room. In this he evoked another technologically minded artist, John Jesurun, who last fall at the Chocolate Factory used the same spatial configuration and different multimedia smoke and mirrors to create a hauntingly claustrophobic experience.

Mr. Jesurun, of course, has been at this game for decades. By comparison, Mr. Schneider, who does multimedia and video work with both the Wooster Group and Fischerspooner, is just getting going. He is an engaging performer, but “Wow + Flutter,” which suffered from a self-consciously labored script, didn’t quite live up to the promise of an immersive, altered experience.

Still, there were nice touches throughout. Christine Shallenberg’s lighting included assaultive bursts, cool blues that flooded the space as if it were under water, and sleek, white tubing affixed to columns and facing Mr. Schneider. Grainy black-and-white video periodically gave glimpses of activity in the downstairs space, including ghostly dances. Kate Valk’s lips, via one of two video monitors hanging from the ceiling, had a sultry, sometimes creepy cameo as “This Girl,” the remote object of Mr. Schneider’s distracted, self-involved affection.

Mr. Schneider used scientific riffs, Omar Zubair’s live sound effects and a barrage of spliced video (often controlled by his muscular gestures, like sharp air punches done while wearing electronic-enhanced gloves) to hold forth on time, space and experience after death. Yet he kept returning to a quieter meditation on masculinity and the desperate need for attention. Beneath all the wow and flutter of this boy and his toys is the naked need to please.

TWG’s North Atlantic @ REDCAT

andrew — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:06:24 +0000

The Wooster Group‘s North Atlantic is running this weekend and next at the REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles. It’s a great show, and I was lucky enough to get to rehearse as “Lud” for the month that we were in rehearsals at the Garage in SoHo, while Scott Shepherd was in a run of Gatz in Cambridge with ERS. I was able to get out there this weekend to shoot the show for our archive, and was really finally able to experience the show for the first time as a pseudo-audience member. The show is mind-blowing. A reminder not only of why I’ve always wanted to work with this company, but why I became involved in theatre in the first place. Really visceral, inspiring stuff. Go see it.

photo: Paula Court

Grab tickets for the LA run here.

TWG will bring NA to NYC in March and April for a run at the newly renovated Jerome Robbin’s Theatre inside the Baryshnikov Art’s Center. Buy those Tickets here.

Do not miss this!

New work at The Chocolate Factory

andrew — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:47:19 +0000

I’m very excited to announce the opening of a new piece in February at The Chocolate Factory. I’m currently in further development of a piece called WOW AND FLUTTER. You may have seen work-in-progress showings at Issue Project Room last April. Well, the show is back, and it’s still different. From the press release:

When everything, all information is all accessible, and all at the same time and all simultaneously; order, ordinance does not matter. Linear time as we know it is indifferent. Things poke holes in the present moment from other places. The whole of everything is now in one frame. Everything at once. All the time. Flattened out. With a meat tenderizer.

Click here to watch an early excerpt from WOW AND FLUTTER.

The Chocolate Factory is awesome.COME!

To purchase lots of tickets, (or just one), click here.

cleaning 12-28-09

andrew — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:07:51 +0000

In an effort to organize my life in the two and a half days before the New Year and in preparation for some new New Year’s Resolutions. I’ve been doing a little winter cleaning on my laptop. I’ve been out of the country a lot recently and files for work and pleasure have been accumulating and commingling like I don’t know what. Time to purge. Because I’ve been out of the country I also purchased a Skype number to make it easier to conduct business on the cheap when abroad. When you purchase a Skype number you get to pick any number that is currently available (area code included) and subscribe to it for as long as you see fit. I’ve subscribed to my number for three months. When I’m done with it, it’ll be released back into the pool of available numbers. I imagine many people like me subscribe to a number for a very short period of time, and then give it up. Perhaps because of this high number-turnover-rate, some people pick up and drop numbers without notifying those that they’ve been in contact with that their number is no longer their number. Therefore, it’s inevitable that my number and I are getting phone calls for people whom I am not. When I’m not online to answer, they leave voicemails. Here are a sampling of misdirected voicemails that will never get to their intended recipient. Marcel, Tom, I am sorry.Download audio file (voicemal01.mp3)
It wasn’t but a few hours after I originally published this post that I got two more voicemails.Download audio file (voicemal02.mp3)
And hey. Why not go ahead and leave your own misdirected voicemail. Get some things off your chest before the new year!(917) 720-3227

They just keep coming.

Download audio file (voicemal03.mp3)

what happened.

andrew — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:59:39 +0000

Things have been happening since June. Here are some of them.

my apartment collapsed

Re:placement installation / performance at PS122
opening night panel at the Prelude Festival
Blinkcam @ the ITP 30th anniversary gala
The Archery Contest video design at PS122
Fischerspooner video design at the MoMA
Vieux Carré premiere at the Centre Pompidou, (The Wooster Group)
This mustache started growing on my face
I am Jerome Bel shows in London for Rolex, (The Wooster Group)