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What is a Five Andrew?
A Five Andrew is someone who has been devising live art performances, typically with the other three Five Andrews, since 1990.
A Five Andrew aims to make succulent and pithy work that, on the outside, appears lemonly. As in a dream, A Five Andrew possesses its own unfathomable purpose.
Latest performances
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A performative intervention in the form of a fashion show celebrating 25 years of costume design by Andrew Barker for The Five Andrews (private event)
Happening
On a planet light years distant, signals from the televising of The Supremes' first arrival in London are spied through a gap in the neighbours' curtains and interpreted by a team of alien cultural experts. Subsequently, after a very long journey, emissaries arrive by taxi on planet Earth to confirm their findings. (prIvate event) Blog and video.
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“With their attention to fashion, blonde-dyed hair, and their vocals, they are like a kind of half-hearted pop group. The atmosphere they create has a curious kind of camp serenity. They verge on the surreal...”