Scott N Andrew

Opposites Abstract

2023

This performance was presented at the New Hazlett Theater as part of the Opposites Abstract exhibition of work by Mo Willems hosted by Museum Lab and The Pittsburgh Children's Museum. The performance featured the Cookie Table, Kelsey Jumper and Treasure Treasure, who explored the curiosity of opposites and abstraction using Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions, a book containing unanswerable, fantastical questions, as inspiration. Scott Andrew was the media designer working with original, AI, Google Earth, and collaged imagery from Mo Willem's Opposites Abstract book, with music by Colter Harper. (*note that the audio used in the video is stock and not from the performance)

Museum Lab

Children's Museum

Gallery

Stage performance with two singers in striped dresses, guitarist, and abstract projection. Brick wall backdrop. Colors include yellow, red, blue. Theater stage view with two figures in colorful dresses on a platform, a guitarist to the left, and a screen projecting blue geometric shapes in the background. Stage lights illuminate the scene. A smiling person with hair in a bun stands with hands pressed together. They wear a colorful striped dress with blue, yellow, and pink hues. The background is dark. On a stage, a guitarist plays while two singers in colorful dresses stand on a wooden platform, bathed in stage lighting. The backdrop is a dark brick wall. A stage scene with two children in plaid shirts holding orange spheres, flanked by adults in colorful striped dresses. A woman sits in the background. The stage floor is dark, lit with blue and purple hues. Performance scene with guitarist, two singers in colorful striped dresses on a small platform, and a screen showing blue and white abstract patterns. Stage lit with blue hues and spotlights. Brick wall visible in the background. Two figures, lit by spotlights, face upwards with hands raised. They wear brightly striped, colorful clothing in vertical patterns. Background is dark and indistinct. Two figures in a dark, theatrical space hold up bright cell phone lights. Blue and red stage lighting is visible in the background. Theater scene with two figures in colorful dresses on stage, facing the audience. A screen above displays an abstract pattern of colorful spheres. Brick walls and audience in the dark background.