Author: andrewbarco

I created this installation–a curved wooden track to roll a crystal ball across the landscape of the Herald Arts residency in Ohio.

We’ll Meet You There is a one night performance event created by Andrew and Hannah Barco for the 2013 Out of Site series of public performances.  The event consisted of eight simultaneous community processions through Wicker Park/Bucktown publicly celebrating and bearing witness to everyday aspects of our lives. The Promenade of Rising Dough, The Promenade of Double […]

In a very slightly different parallel universe Giles Deleuze misspelled the title to his famous essay, “Immanence: a Life”, setting off an unexpected and unintentional trajectory for contemporary theory, provoking a body of thinkers engaging time less through missives on utopias and dystopias but through articulating the immanence of imminence—the dwelling of the future in […]

The Androne is a functional hurdy-gurdy (a “drone” musical instrument) in the shape of the predator drone currently flying missions in the middle east by the US military. This project has been shown at Heaven Gallery in Chicago, the Waubonsee Community College gallery, and in the Experimental Sound Studio [ESS] Gallery. In ESS it was […]

The Grasshawk is a creature mentioned in “True Story”, a first century novel by Syrian writer Lucian of Samosata treated by some as the first science fiction novel. This piece, made of batiked fabric, fake grass, and hand-carved walnut, is the first component in what will be a monument to the battle between the sun […]

I created this participatory performance for Family Day at the MCA. Staged as an “ambassor’s office”, this performance centered around a very simple collaborative drawing game that can be done with children of many ages but also explored the broader idea of non-verbal communication. Interrupting the participatory game were performances in which we used semaphore to communicate with specific art works in the gallery. Completed drawings were hoisted up as flags up to the third floor balcony of the museum.

The Acteon Project was a series of performances enacted over the course of the summer of 2008 in Boston’s Arnold Arboretum using a prosthetic which allowed me to see through the eyes, hear through the ears of a taxidermy deer head.