Scott N Andrew

Performance

A person in a dark bodysuit and red wig is doused with water from a red bucket by another person in a yellow suit.

Bloomfield Garden Club

2020
Scott Andrew and John Musser (Veronica Bleaus) performed as August Artists-in-Residence for the Bloomfield Garden Club, an inclusive salon supporting queer and marginalized artists in Pittsburgh.
A person in a pink bodysuit and flowing cape with a masked face, sunglasses, and multiple eyes on the chest, against a bright

Chimera

2020
Chimera is a 2020 performance installation by Scott Andrew and Jesse Factor, exploring Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto through sound, dance, and new media, supported by Black Cube.
Collage of two drag queens: one on a glittery floor with green hair, the other in white holding a sword.

The Diva Saga

2019
Multi-channel video installation and performance where Veronica Bleaus, the 'worst drag queen,' battles digital avatars. Explores queer identity, camp, and fantasy through video games, anime, and music.
A person with long red hair, dark eye makeup, and red tears streaming down their face, sings into a microphone under red and

Fail-Safe

2019
Fail-Safe is a recurring interdisciplinary variety performance series and safe space for artistic failure. It features works-in-progress in cabaret, sound art, dance, and digitally mediated performance.
Person in vibrant pink costume with red face paint, fangs, elaborate wig, and a pink teddy bear.

Valentine Vampire

2017
A 2017 video by Scott Andrew exploring queer fetish, occult rituals, and camp aesthetics. Features performance, hybrid monsters, and samples of Dolly Parton and Penny Dreadful.
Two performers against a green screen and red curtains. One in a pink dress and blonde wig holds a selfie stick; the other in

E.S.P. TV

2015
Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) performance for E.S.P. TV #78 (2015). A collaborative live product display taped in Pittsburgh, exploring televisual language.
Person in leopard print, blonde wig, and dramatic makeup eating cauliflower.

A Girl Called Dusty

2015
A Girl Called Dusty (2015) features a performance video and the poem "Dusty Says Goodbye!" which explores glitter, queer identity, consumerism, and eternal beauty through camp and critique.
A woman with pink-purple skin and shiny lips crosses her arms, wearing translucent gloves. "VARIETY!" in colorful 3D text flo

Activated Anamorphs

2014-2021
Activated Anamorphs is an interdisciplinary project merging wearable sculpture, video, performance, and interactive prosthetics. This work explores identity, mutation, and the augmented body in live events.
Performance art with a person in a colorful, tiered costume on a stage, surrounded by an audience.

Constructing Identity

2013
A 2013 performance and costume project where LGBTQIA youth created garments exploring identity and mythology, culminating in a fashion show at the Pittsburgh Makerfaire.
People lying on a dark floor under blue light, some with eyes closed, wearing various casual clothes.

group

2013
group is an immersive, 90-minute audiovisual performance blending rock concerts, spiritual rituals, and group therapy. Audiences participate in guided exercises across 7 conceptual platforms.
Three figures in a dimly lit room with ritualistic objects on the floor, including a glowing green eye and skull.

Séance

2013
A 2013 performance featuring reptilian mediums channeling remote ghostly presences via live Google Hangout projection. Explores spiritualism and digital embodiment.
Two costumed performers on stage, one in a black fluffy suit and red tutu, the other in a white bodysuit and veil, tugging a

Pleasure Strike!

2013
A multimedia performance blending Freudian complexes, MMA, and Jim Henson fantasy. Explores a mutant, gelatinous seedpod’s life cycle of love, violence, and seduction.
Shadow puppet show with a large tree-like figure, bears, and other animals silhouetted against a bright white screen.

The Bear King

2012
Scott Andrew's 2012 performance, "The Bear King," an immersive narrated shadow play exploring a powerful new origin myth, premiered at the Andy Warhol Museum.
Two performers in alien costumes on stage, one green, one silver, in front of a cosmic projection.

Multiversal Alliance

2012
Multimedia performance piece "Multiversal Alliance" (2012) by Scott Andrew and Erin Womack, presented at TedxYouth Day at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh.
Four-panel video still of a party with people, confetti, and debris. Top left: person bending over in a messy room. Top right

Gutai Beach Party

2012
Documentation of the 2012 collaborative performance and installation, Gutai Beach Party, held at Leslie Pool in Pittsburgh, featuring Scott Andrew, Suzie Silver, and others.
View from inside a dark, textured hole looking up at a bright blue sky with white clouds and a faint pink streak.

The Drift

2012
The Drift was a multimedia floating performance series (2012-2016) on Pittsburgh's rivers, featuring site-specific video, dance, and interventions on custom-built hexagonal rafts.
Four people in unicorn masks and leotards, with high heels and horse tails, against a vibrant, swirling background.

Ponycorn Apocalypse

2012
Scott Andrew's absurdist multimedia performance imagining the end of the world as a joyful ponycorn mating ritual around a glowing crystal, responding to 'end times' hysteria.
Digital painting of a person with dark skin, red lips, and boxing gloves, surrounded by red and pink roses.

Trans-Q Television / TQ Live!

2012-2024
Trans-Q Television is the seminal video variety show co-produced by Scott Andrew, reveling in the mutability of genders and sexualities. A Dadaist mix of performance, comedy, and queer theory.
A person stands inside a curved, translucent screen with vibrant, sparkling blue, green, and purple light patterns.

Sploshing The Void II

2012
Kinetic multi-channel video installation (2012) exploring queer futurity through a disorienting, hallucinogenic inter-dimensional portal. Features movement by Mitsuko Clarke-Verdery.
Close-up of a circular, translucent, green-tinted object with radiating creases, seen through a textured green surface.

AutoSpa

2012
Scott Andrew's 2012 performance installation, AutoSpa, offers a 20-minute, in-car spa treatment including facial, massage, and aroma-sauna for driver and vehicle.
Performance art with a figure in a white costume and blue face paint, illuminated by a yellow light projection on a black bac

Liquid Escort 5000

2012
Liquid Escort 5000 (2012) is a performance and video work by Scott Andrew and Erin Womack, exploring the projected simulacra of pleasure and viscous ecstasy.
Performance art with two people in shiny, futuristic costumes amidst clear plastic and crumpled silver foil.

Art Olymics Theater

2010
The Trans-Millennial Conquistadors arrive from the future (2008) to disrupt space-time using inflatable time pods and sound rituals in this immersive performance work.
Performance art with three figures in elaborate costumes around a glowing, jagged white structure.

Starship Astrotron

2010
Join the crash-landed crew of the Starship Astrotron! This interactive installation by Scott Andrew, Adam Atkinson, and Michael McParlane transforms visitors into alien adventurers.