Projects
As an artist and consultant I’ve created on played a creative role in developing a diverse range of projects. From cutting edge, interactive Audio Visual installations at some of the world’s foremost galleries and art fairs, to community-engaged arts programming, music festival and events production, and artist residency and exhibition development and design, the common theme of my professional practice is bringing people together to share unique and thought provoking experiences.
Below you can find examples of select projects. For a list of all projects and professional undertakings, please visit the CV section of this website.
When I Was Young was a performance of over four and a half hours of music from 7″ singles collected by my father from 1959 – 1978.
The resulting “audio portrait” was conceived as a gift to my father on his 73rd birthday. The performance was hosted by Seance Centre Records at their store and event space in Toronto
Transmission – Lost Souls of Saturn
Transmission is an interactive, audio visual installation created by the Lost Souls of Saturn to accompany their eponymous LP on R&S Records.
The installation premiered during Art Basel 2019 and is currently on exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery London as part of Sweet Harmony: Rave Today through September 12, 2019.
No Blue Jeans, No Nice Sweaters, No Big Bop Rejects
Created as a commissioned work for the Queen St. West BIA as part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche – NBJNNSNBBR, is an interactive walking tour of Toronto, and Queen St. West’s Goth heritage that combined performance, community story telling and a midnight Goth flash mob dance off.
PATHS: Practising Art Through Hide & Seek
An exercise in detournement, PATHS explores the structural limits placed on urban space -particularly Toronto’s 32km underground PATH network, Canada’s largest commercial/retail development. Through the popular childhood game of hide and seek, participants consistently transgress, test, reclaim and blur boundaries between the public and private space and imagine new possibilities for the way we interact with the urban environment.
Art S.E.A.L.S: Art Skills Exchange and Learning Series
Art S.E.A.L.S: A Survival Skills Training Guide is a multidisciplinary performance series developed by artists Alana Bartol and Andrew Lochhead aka “The A-Team”, that explores the relationships between artistic and non-artistic labour as engaged in by professional artists from Windsor and Hamilton, Ontario, through a series of inter-municipal artist exchanges, consisting of performance-based, interactive workshops and panel discussions.
Cartography of Imagined Communities
Cartography of Imagined Communities is a performance and mapping project in which Benedict Andersons 1972 work, Imagined Communities is translated using the “art and science” of heraldry. The work explores the the visual language of the nation-state, nationalism and national identity and their relationships to expressions of personal identity.
Is That All There Is II – Chicago Festival of Maps
A second iteration of the collaborative work between Andrea Slavik and I, as AndrewandAndrea that deploys the title of Lieber & Stoller’s 1957 hit for Peggy Lee as a slogan for the post-captialist era and explores the dynamics and tensions between public art and private space in the urban environment. This time in the form of aerial advertising. Is That All There Is? was presented as part of the Chicago Festival of Maps
Walking West Pullman was a series of community lead walking tours that explored the natural, social and economic history of the West Pullman, Chicago’s furthest south neighbourhood.
Is That All There Is – Windsor Biennial
The first major collaboration between Andrea Slavik and I as AndrewandAndrea, engages in a critique of the visual culture of urban space and public art in the era of globalization, a discussion of the post-modern condition and how globalization and commodity fetishism operate within the art world, specifically within the culture of a “Biennial” exhibition.