Let’s look at some events this week, and see if’n we can close out August. Nomadic Studio had a ton of workshops and presentations, and none were more physically demanding than andrewandandrea’s “the Art of (Foot) Hockey”. Brought to our exhibit by our comrade in common, W. Keith Brown, this presentation by the portmanteau’ed pair of Canadians Andrew Lochhead and Andrea Slavik was a left-field treatise on social and artistic interactions through the lens of…well, foot hockey. Foot Hockey, or Sockey as it was introduced to us is a mix of handball, soccer, and hockey, and is played in socks.
Getting a bunch of art-types to head on down to the handball court at the Ray Meyer Fitness Center (which now counts as a satellite studio as far as I’m concerned), and kick around a tennis ball for an hour was both strenuous and a great change of pace from the standard art-education talks I’ve experienced. The socks-only rule made the game extra slippy, and probably torched my ankle, but it was a blast. Not really sure I’ve seen a presentation like it, before or since.
As a parting gift, andrewandandrea left us with a video installation about their practice that looped for weeks on a set of headphones. Atop that monitor sat the lone tennis ball we used that day as a reminder that artistic practice can be more than just paint-stained coveralls and pedagogical texts.
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AndrewandAndrea is a conceptual art group comprised of Canadian artists Andrew Lochhead and Andrea Slavik. Founded in 2006 as a means of engaging in visual and critical studies of our contemporary culture, AndrewandAndrea seek to deconstruct popular narrative practices and forms of representation active in our visual and sociopolitical environment.Through juxtaposition, adaptation and appropriation of visual texts and strategies, the artists seek to expose intentional and unintended ideological structures at work within the culture of everyday late-capitalism in its most ubiquitous, often humorous forms.
