Publisher's Synopsis
A Book of Dances by Andrew Franck.
Andrew Franck (born Andreas Franck in the United States) is a philosopher, author and visual, sound and performance artist. Franck began his performance career in New York City and Stuttgart, Germany.
As a visual artist, Franck works in mixed media, oil, latex and carbon on paper and encaustics. His catalog contains over two hundred works focusing on metamorphosis in plant life, alchemy and the rhythmical aspects of negative space. His series of action art, collage, word art and assemblages entitled Budh &Ray: Two In One Eye, An Archetextural Digest and others examines negative space, dimensionality and form through language, and the appearance and decay of the art object. Franck's larger works have been exhibited at Centerpoint Gallery and Paralux in New York City, Basilica Industria and Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Hudson N.Y. and Jio in Montreal. His collection, Reassembling Wisdom, includes sixty-four blackboard diagrams illustrating the holistic imagination of Goethean science.
His writings include The Transparent Bride, The Art of Porosity, Mantras and Musical Solutions, The Holy Bodies Circuit, Musica Mercurialis Viva, Drawing In The Luminous Frontier, A Book of Dances, The Painted Trout, In Some Intrinsic Way Everything Bends Toward Infinity, )INspired OUT(, Exercises In Romantic Understanding, The Lovers' Alphabet, As Above Inside Out Below, Stillness in Motion, Fishing Mind, Fishing Body and Lungs Give the Wind Direction, and Ethers Unfastened Ashes Aroused, and Appearancing. His Budh &Ray series of artifactual assemblage and indefinite art includes 2 IN One Eye, Magical Agreements, An Archetextural Digest, Absorbing Directions, New Bodies, Astralities, The Substance of Feeling, A Not-yet-ready Readymade Coloring Book, Of And Into All Of Three, and Accomplishing the Countenance of the Creaturely, and An Atlas of Irregular Intimacies.
As a sound designer, Franck has written numerous works for chamber ensembles and electronics. His recordings include One Breath Bardo, Dances and Emanations, Music from Our Lady of Perpetual Motion, Maps for Dreaming, Surfacing, By Chance And Appointment, A Body of Drops and Winds and In This Bath We Don't Get Wet. His soundtracks are featured in works for dance, film, performance art and ambient environments. His Variations On A Theme By Conlon Nancarrow was featured in Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo's production of Cross Currents. His recent multimedia presentations at Beijing's Central Academy Of Fine Art employ video projections with recorded voices, live music and narration.
Philosophy studies with Reiner Schurmann, Veronique Foti, Quentin Lauer, Ronald Brady and Manfred Riedel. Music studies with Gates Wray, Elias Tanenbaum, La Monte Young and Philip Corner. Collaborations with Elaine Summers, Merce Cunningham, Phoebe Neville, Carolyn Bilderback, Alison Knowles and Charlotte Moorman. Explorations and research with Otto Wulff, Klaus Wilde, Alfred Tomatis, Robert Sardello. Ensemble performance withTed Orr, LuckyMission, Elastik and the Hudson Valley Butoh.
