Work Samples
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"Invisible Museums of the Unseen"
GPS-based, user-activated audio art
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Commission
November 7, 2020 – May 15, 2021
Platform: Gesso.app
Sites, Chicago, IL:
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Invisible Museum of Sound waves in Winnemac Park
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Invisible Museum of Gravity in Lincoln Park
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Invisible Museum of Air in Washington Park
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Invisible Museum of Reflections in Douglass Park
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GPS-activated, self-directed interactive public audio art piece. Participants' movements activate the app-based GPS-triggered audio to play, which causes an invisible museum to come to life before them. This work takes the form of a fictitious audio museum guide for unseen architecture dedicated to invisible forces. Occurring in four parks throughout Chicago, participants discover two realms of the invisible: the architecture of an imaginary museum and the contents of the museum’s unseen “galleries,” each dedicated to a scientific and perceptual component of invisibility. This public audio art experience commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for its exhibition "The Long Dream."
"Bottling the Impossible"
Sculptures and Performance Series
High Concept Laboratories, Chicago
June 6-15, 2019
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Sculptures: As Andrews unveils her 'impossible perfume bottle' sculptures, they evoke images of a ship in a bottle, on magical steroids. Bottles contain totally solid objects such as a chess pieces and pocket mirrors, that are far larger than the neck of the bottle. Both the bottle, and the items inside, have not been cut, tampered with, or 3-D printed in anyway. The items inside are totally solid, and everything is exactly as it appears. The bottles function as a modern day magic wand.
For more on these, please read the Chicago Magazine feature article HERE
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Performances: What if a scent could create magic...? Aromas trapped in impossible perfume bottle sculptures cause the seemingly impossible to unfold in viewers' hands. This is an interactive, contemporary magic performance, with a contemplative edge where participants explore perception, time, and chance and the biological triggering of wonder. Subverting the traditional role of the magician, members of the audience are able to seemingly read Jeanette's mind, perform card tricks on themselves without knowing how, predict future decisions of other audience members and cause a water to transform into any perfume that their heart desires....
Please bear in mind that as a medium, magic does not translate to the moving image.
Can only be experienced correctly live.