Rob Andrews
[BROOKLYN, NY]
"THE MINOTAUR"
Wed, May 20, 2009
7:00 - 11:00 PM
free
Performance starts at 8:00 pm
PERFORMANCE ART by ROB ANDREWS
Foof by BIG DICKS HOT DOGS/Technical Direction by Room 404 Media/ After-Performance music by Asakomusic
THE MINATAUR
I met a minotaur ten years ago.
My sister taught me that you can make your body a hole, and remarkably, repair it again.
My dad lives in the desert inventing imaginary non-profits in his underwear, yelling at my mom for giving him less spaghetti sauce than he deserves.
America ate my dad and my sister. Or they ate it and shit it out. Or it shit them out. That's why I make art. To eat it. Let it eat me. Shit myself out. To make the minotaur's art. Let it shit me out.
I build gestures to reduce our mythologyÐin the hope of emancipating it.
BIOGRAPHY
ROB ANDREWS has been creating performance Art in New York City since 2002. He has an ongoing project of Jumping in a Pair of Jordans 1,000,000 times.
He is a teacher for the NYC Department of Education, was a personal assistant to William Pope L, has an M.S. in Education from Pace Universirty and a B.A. in English (concentration in Creative Writing) from Bates College, Maine. In 2001, he was awarded the Senseney Memorial Award, given to the student who has shown outstanding creative ability for Writing.
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