MARC ANDREOTTOLA
Marc Andreottola is a video artist, writer and electronic musician. His works have been featured at the New York Fringe Festival, the Fresnoy Institut des Arts Contemporeans, the New York Eye and Ear Festival, and referenced in many publications such as Pitchfork Magazine, Super Super and the UK Guardian. His electronic music project is called Fostercare and has been released by Houston label Disaro and UK-based label Clan Destine Records.
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FOSTERCARE is a solo electronic music project started by Marc Andreottola in 2008. CD-Rs have been released on Houston-based label, Disaro, and UK-based label, Clan Destine Records, for which he included a DVD release of video art along with the CD. The first vinyl release is expected on Disaro in late 2010. A remix compilation and covers CD will also occur in late 2010.
FOSTERCARE has played the 2010 NY Eye + Ear Festival, Pendu Disco and at the NYC club, The Annex.
19 min. vintage 1988 VHS.
using the original images from the 1988 hit "Beaches" starring Bette Midler, this is the alternative story. did u know about Cece's secret life as an S&M showgirl dancing for dimes? the witch next door sleeping with Hillary's husband? the Satanic cult that both Cece and Hillary got sucked up in? And the bizarre fate that both girls would have--only wishing that they had the outcome of the the Hollywood movie to save them.
17 min. vintage 1991 VHS.
using the original images from the 1991 smash hit, "Alien 3", this final installment explores a religious-technocratic world with a forever bleaker tomorrow, in which the fundamental monster is inside of us, waiting to come out.
16 min. vintage 1989 VHS.
using the original images from the 1989 smash hit "Steel Magnolias", this installment features the story of an insane asylum for terminally ill patients. This VHS explores how madness and melodrama go hand in hand--except in this case, the characters are truly lost and barely have each other.
Marc Andreottola has written music and literary reviews for Pop Matters, the Barcelona Review, Useless Magazine and many more. He has interviewed Swedish pop group The Knife, witch house musicians Salem, and writer Dennis Cooper.
Fiction and poetry has appeared in the Lifted Brow, K48, Killing the Buddha, Ganymede, Wilde Stories 2010, Dennis Cooper's anthology of new writers and elsewhere.
Marc wrote and directed the play, We Are the Lawmakers, which was featured in the 2008 New York International Fringe Theater Festival.
walking teeth, shellshocked wandering girl, pavement desires to speak, cerebral hemmhorage, global computer wants to grow arms, tribe of nympho, metal blaze of neuronic waiting wheel, sitcom imploded marriage, permanent sunset, radioactive dusk.
CONCRETE TONGUE is a poetic novel made digestible by its short fragmentary structure and three interwoven phases exploring the mystery of temporal structures, placelessness, hyperreality, sex and death.
forthcoming JI9X Press, 2010.
The reel features selections from "Commercial" (B&W film, 2007), "Contradictions" (B&W film, 2006), Fostercare music videos (video, 2010), "Suzy's Party" (video, 2008).
Nature/Altar/Oath vol. 1-5
A series of multimedia sculptures having to do with the promise of childhood innocence + its inevitable departure. Utilizing the cut-up method via Bryon Gysin and William Burroughs to approach natural objects from the seashore,in collision/collusion with electricity and video, against the backdrop of the child brain. Each piece appears like a 21st century altar for a black mass. Forthcoming.
Marc Andreottola is a New York-based artist. His work is largely time-based and explores theories of alienation, electricity, relativity, capitalism, identity and mass-market vs. subversive narrative methods. He often uses found objects or quotes found narratives and strips them of their familiar references, transforming them into black holes of abject meaning.
His performance, music and video works have been featured at the 2010 NY Eye + Ear Festival, the 2008 NY International Fringe Theater Festival, Monkeytown and the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, Art of This gallery in Minneapolis, Fresnoy Institut des Arts in France, and elsewhere.
Fiction and poetry has been featured in Dennis Cooper's anthology of new writers, Userlands (Akashic), Lifted Brow, K48, Ganymede, Killing the Buddha, 2010 Wilde Stories and elsewhere.
His solo electronic music project, Fostercare, has seen releases on Houston-based label, Disaro, and a CD-R/DVD release on UK-based label, Clan Destine.
Marc earned an MFA in Fiction Writing in 2005 from Brown University, after earning his BA in English Literature from the University of Chicago.
About music project, Fostercare:
This lot, Fostercare, which is a great name, are my favorite of the drum machine-swamp-shoegaze-doom-disco thing that Ive heard yet. They're incredibly dense, just walls and walls of synth culled from John Carpenters most gruesome work, with vocals whispering away underneathThe whole experience is unbelievably menacing intensely provocative music.
RANSOM NOTE
Is there a burgeoning of a new brand of gothic, warped-808 inspired hip-hop electronica spearheaded by Salem? If so, then this should defintiely be considered one of the leaders of the pack.
Dont Die Wondering, Merok Records Music Blog
Influenced by The Knife, Salem and Shackletonthis is dark, like an overhanging thunderstorm. Its sensual, its threatening and its glorious.
88 Days in My Veins
FOSTERCARE was also mentioned in an article on Scene and Heard, the UK Guardians music blog, and at Pitchfork Magazine, regarding the new music called "drag" or "witch house".
About 2008 Fringe Theater Festival show, We Are the Lawmakers:
Writer-director Marc Andreottola [produces a] schizophrenic sociopolitical commentary
on American identity[that] comes to resemble a David Lynch film gone awry.
--Time Out New York
[a show] of particular note in this years Fringe
--New York Magazine
shocking, insane with moments of brilliance--a bold and complex piece that strives to instill in viewers a sense of the twisted and perverse sides of our world view.
--nytheatre.com
a daring play of political chaosa wild, confusing, violent, brilliant, and indulgent blow-upone of the most significant statements about American democracy in 2008 I know of.
--The Row Boat
the most bizarre show [at the NY Fringe Festival]
--Bread, Books and Culture in NYC
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