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This is the second in an ongoing series of performances in which artist, educator, and writer Andrew Woolbright considers the format of interview as a form of sculpture. The series' title, Baldanders, references a German mythical figure, Baldanders, who changes its physical form the longer a conversation continues. Woolbright’s multimedia performance involves prosthetics, video, and sculpture that shifts the conversants into new forms over the course of their conversations, inviting painter Angela Dufresne and sculptor Andrew Ross. Together, these sculptural conversations attempt to directly materialize the protean and parliamentary nature of discourse, and abbreviate the circulation of their ideas into flesh. Though framed as conversations on the disciplines of painting and sculpture, both address the ways in which authoritarianism manifests control within aesthetics and maintains civilian ability to respond to power. Woolbright's Baldanders series aims to develop an archive in real time by sourcing physical forms for the language used by the conversants. Sitting in the gallery is a wunderkammer cabinet made by the artist that functions as both a makeup drawer and a bibliography. The case displays texts, sculptures, and artworks sourced from the research that went into each conversation; along with a vitrine that is filled with cast faces of previous participants.

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Andrew Woolbright

Baldanders Memory System

38" x 20" x 70"

Hand Carved Maple, Glass, PLA, Sand, LED Lighting, Ultracal Cast Reliefs of Past Participants, Phong Bui, Angela Dusfrane, Andrew Ross, Andrew Woolbright