Andrew Kaufman
End Trajectory (Trauma Map)
Video with Sound
Running Time: 2.54 minutes

This video maps the destruction of five drinking glasses half filled with water. The jarring sound of the rupturing glasses is meant to create a sense of unease in an often-contemplative space. The conceptual beginning of this series of investigations was the events of September 11, 2002. I have shown this video with re-assembled drinking glasses on small pedestals.

Andrew Kaufman
Hold On/ Hold Up
Video with no Sound
Running Time: 8.34 minutes

Hold On/ Hold Up is a endurance video performance documenting myself struggling to hold onto a bar and hold a bar over my head for as long as possible. I understand this struggle as an allegory of the human condition, in which the changing contexts of the bar serves only as extreme ideological opposites bereft of empathy for the undertaking.

Andrew Kaufman
Conquest of the Air
Video with Sound
15 minute Running Time

Conquest of the Air is a short video performance documenting a collaborative effort to create a simple paper airplane. The video shows a close up view of a pair of hands trying to navigate a set of simple decisions to produce a paper airplane. The visual awkwardness that sometimes ensues is because one hand is mine and one hand is from a collaborator. Concepts such as invisibility, perception, collaboration, transformation and fun were the impetus for the performance.

Hold On/ Hold Up - 9/2 - 9/6/2008
End Trajectory (Trauma Map) - 9/8 - 9/13/2008
Conquest of the Air - 9/15 - 9/20/2008

http://ajkaufman.com