Name: Mezzanine: Andrew Norman Wilson (live performance)
Start: 2024-09-19T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-09-19T22:30:00-07:00
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Mezzanine presents *It’s Not What The World Needs Right Now*: a live essay by Andrew Norman Wilson. With Andrew Norman Wilson in person, of course.

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In the twenty-tens, Andrew Norman Wilson had seen his art go viral a few times, and landed four biennials—the start of a promising career. In “It’s Not What the World Needs Right Now,” his recent essay for issue 73 of *The Baffler*, Wilson asks what precisely that looks like in an industry that pays in clout and almost never in cash.

For one night only, join Wilson for a live video essay presentation of “It’s Not What the World Needs Right Now,” featuring new images, videos, and passages that paint a stark portrait, replete with a rib removal and an episode of penguin-induced dissociation, of his departure from a contemporary art world whose works serve no one but yacht owners and curatorial bureaucrats with terminal degrees.

Approx runtime: 75m.

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Andrew Norman Wilson is an artist and director based between Europe and America. Festival screenings include Sundance, the New York Film Festival, and Rotterdam. His work is in collections such as the Museum of Modern Art New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Getty Museum, and The Centre Pompidou. He is currently in pre-production on a commercial film titled *Interlaken*, a romantic thriller set in the Swiss Alps. He is also authoring a memoir based on his article "It's Not What the World Needs Right Now" for T*he Baffler*. The book will chronicle his career in the art world, beginning with his transition into it from documentary and activism and culminating with his escape into the film industry.

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Mezzanine: Andrew Norman Wilson (live performance)

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