The Unwritten History Project Detail Record

Detail Record for Nancy Andrews

Event Title: An Epic: Falling Between the Cracks
Series Title:
Location: Performed 'In Exile' at the Knitting Factory
Date: 4/5/1995 -
Event Type: Performance

Event Documentation:

"An Epic: Falling Between the Cracks," Photo by Marty Heitner	"An Epic: Falling Between the Cracks," Photo by Marty Heitner	"An Epic: Falling Between the Cracks," Photo by Marty Heitner	"An Epic: Falling Between the Cracks," Photo by Marty Heitner
"An Epic: Falling Between the Cracks," announcement, front	"An Epic: Falling Between the Cracks," announcement, back
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Artist Statement:

Bio: Nancy Andrews has been writing and performing interdisciplinary works since 1985. She is currently performing Squirrel Finds a Live Nut, a solo piece incorporating performance, music, video, film and monologue. This piece and work-in-progress performances have been presented at the Baltimore Museum of Art, performance Space 122, Isospin Gallery and Gallery 2. She is a graduate student in performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Nancy released a 4 song vinyl EP, Pinky, on Harriet Records, 1992. Much of her past work was with the collaborative group Lambs Eat Ivy. Lambs Eat Ivy produced three touring performance works Dance the Flaming Tongues of Carpet, Dream Bardo, and Ghost Girl between 1987 and 1992. These were performed at various venues, including, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), The Baltimore Museum of Art, Performance Space 122, The Performing Garage, Franklin Furnace, Intersection for the arts, and others. This Baltimore-based group received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, Arts Matters Inc., Baltimore CityArts and others. The group developed Ghost Girl while in residence at Yellow Springs Institute in 1990. Lambs Eat Ivy released an LP, Lamby Cake, on Merkin Records, 1989. Nancy has also created and performed collaborative work with the groups, Girls' Ranch, The Gertrudes, and Pinky.

Press Release: Franklin Furnace's 94-95 Season of Performance Art "In Exile" at the Knitting Factory Franklin Furnace is pleased to announce its first year "in exile" at the Knitting Factory's "Alterknit" space. Franklin Furnace has been in the forefront of the contemporary art world's fight for freedom of expression, turning adversity into advantage by presenting performance art "in exile" citywide, at Judson Memorial Church, Cooper Union, The New School for Social Research, P.S. 122, and now at the Knitting Factory. Franklin Furnace's basement performance space was closed by the Fire Department in 1990 in response to an anonymous caller who claimed the organization was an "illegal social club." Artists who got their start at Franklin Furnace such as Eric Bogosian, Karen Finley, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Annie Sprinkle and Paul Zaloom have changed the terms of contemporary art discourse. We believe that the controversy that often ensues from the presentation of contemporary art is this country's most important product, and a healthy, welcome result of life in our diverse, democratic society. Nancy Andrews (IL) An Epic: Falling Between the Cracks April 5 A solo performance/musical/film work documenting the epic quest of eighteen inches-tall Frances Coco and her dog, Lemuel, to find a place in the world. This space age, fractured fairy tale begins with a documentary filmmaker's discovery of Frances in the garden. It portrays, through a vaudevillian film--lecture presentation, the existential voyage of this tiny girl puppet and her dog sidekick. In the film segments, (Nanook of the North meets Eraserhead) Frances is given movement and life through the process of stop-action animation.

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