Artwork

What Does That Mean?
Why am I smiling?
Comedy Routine, digital video, 2012
Andrew Salyer Reads Hannah Arendt
It’s a Wonderful Life or: How I Learned to Love Where We Come From, What We Are, and Where We Are Going 2008
Public Intellectual (interactive website)
Wisconsin Triennial, “Sensible Analysis,” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI, part of Spatula&Barcode’s Café Allongé, 2013
An artistic gesture, conceived in the year 2013 for Laurie Beth Clark’s “Ossuary,” in which a rectangular hole is cut within a museum wall in an effort to consider the architecture itself
Flood, color photograph, 2010
Later that evening we gathered in the drawing room (installation)
Yesterday (after On Kawara)
Lacuna (Conduit), digital video, 2009
Pantone 11-4800 (Blanc Sur Blanc Sur Blanc),” 2017, ink on paper
We Took Everything for Granted
President Kennedy signs the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the White House Treaty Room – October 7, 1963, digital photograph intervention
An artistic gesture, conceived in the year 2013 for Madison Public Library’s “Q&A” exhibition, in which a red foam clown nose is attached to the gallery wall in an effort to consider the agency of the architecture itself
Waves Of Melancholy (lying on my right side), poem
Attempt #45, 2 of 5
1 and 3 Plants, installation, 2008
Concerning the Contemporary Landscape, photograph, 2015
Later that evening we gathered in the drawing room (photograph detail)
Void (after Yves Klein), digital photograph intervention, 2011
“A Moment of Multiple Collapses During an RSA (Repressive State Apparatus) and ISA (Ideological State Apparatus) Event, with Additional ISA Events Aestheticizing Said Event for Consideration and Distribution (After Althusser, After Stephen Crowley/ The New York Times), appropriated digital Image, 2013
Link to project: https://www.facebook.com/samephotoofandrewsalyereveryday
Lacuna (Conduit), installation, 2009
Falling, performance, 2018
“too sad to tell” (After Bas Jan Ader), digital intervention, 2013
WEIRD WORD
Nothing Left to Make
On Attempting Negative Capability, performance/Installation, 2010
Standards & Rules
Attempt #45, 3 of 5
An Attempt At Transparency, or: Cleaning a Large Glass Wall (while listening to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States), or: The Spectacular Trap of Transparency Performance and Installation, 2018
Attempt #45, 4 of 5
Love Like Sponge
Seedless Bed (After Vito Acconci), Digital photograph intervention, 2011
Activist Art Exhibition Arendt Reading
Untitled #1 (Waves), color photograph, 2016
Stand up, 2010
To Think of Things Impossible (detail)
In Consideration of the Wall (red foam nose), gallery intervention, 2016
C, sculptural situation, 2010
The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is Still the Highest Form of Art (after Tom Marioni), 2009
Shoot (Sans Burden), digital photograph intervention, 2012
SportsBall
TENTATIVE!
On Constructing a Black Hole, 2 of 3
Thank You for the Storage Space, 2 of 4
Sites of Representation, website, https://www.tumblr.com/blog/sitesofrepresentation
Coffee Story (with Spatula&Barcode’s project Café Allongé), performance, 2011
A Scene from the Future
Color Photograph, 2012
One Day
On Constructing a Black Hole, 1 of 3
Falling, performance, 2018
Double Void (BaldeKlein), manipulated digital photograph, 2011
Erased Rauschenberg Drawing, digital intervention, 2016
Skin Flesh
In Consideration of the Wall (red foam nose), gallery intervention, 2016
Lacuna (iceburg), sculpture, 2011
Thank You for the Storage Space, 3 of 4
Something: A Brief Survey of Nothing, or, Using Art to See, 1958 to 2006 Curatorial Installation 2013
On Constructing a Black Hole, 3 of 3
Trickle Down, sculptural situation, 2010
Theory and/or Practice (Self-Portrait) Photograph, 2019
The Light That Never Goes Out Until It Does, sculpture, 2011
Attempt #45, 1 of 5
Relatively Calm Water (lying on my left side, lying on my back, lying on my right side), poem
Let’s not shit ourselves, your illusions have always been made of blue tape, 16mm projector and duct tape, 2011
An Attempt At Transparency, or: Cleaning a Large Glass Wall (while listening to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States), or: The Spectacular Trap of Transparency Performance and Installation, 2018
An artistic gesture, conceived in the year 2013 for Laurie Beth Clark’s “Ossuary,” in which a rectangular hole is cut within a museum wall in an effort to consider the architecture itself
Here We Left It: A Dear Heart Dance Production, performance, 2010
Thank You for the Storage Space, 4 of 4
President Reagan holds an oval office staff meeting on his first full day in office (from left to right) Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, Counselor to the President Ed Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker III, Press Secretary James Brady, President Reagan. 1/21/81. Digital Intervention 2013
I’ll Meet You Halfway, performance, 2010
Eating Fruit While Reading Poems by Pablo Neruda, performance for the camera, 2010
The Impossible Death of Mallarmé Through the Eyes of Broodthaers, 2009
Attempt #45, 2 of 5
An artistic gesture, conceived in the year 2013 for Laurie Beth Clark’s “Ossuary,” in which a rectangular hole is cut within a museum wall in an effort to consider the architecture itself, gallery intervention
Waves Of Melancholy (lying on my left side), poem
Thank You for the Storage Space, 1 of 4
Later that evening we gathered in the drawing room, champagne-filled balloon detail, installation (champagne filled balloons, black and white photograph, inner-wall audio)
Lacuna (installation detail)
To Think of Things Impossible
To Think of Things Impossible Osé print (four panels totaling 9 ft x 12 ft) 2004
OnoBot Project, Interactive website (Javascript), http://onobot.tumblr.com
Untitled (filmstrip for a utopian horizon), 16mm filmstrip, nail, 2012
Deconstructed Iceberg, mixed media installation (cardboard, blue light, rock, tape, and hand-written sign), 2012
An Attempt At Transparency, or: Cleaning a Large Glass Wall (while listening to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States), or: The Spectacular Trap of Transparency Performance and Installation, 2018
Attempt #45, 2 of 5
On Constructing a Black Hole, 3 of 3
Attempt #45, 3 of 5
Public Intellectual (interactive website)
Pantone 11-4800 (Blanc Sur Blanc Sur Blanc),” 2017, ink on paper
Activist Art Exhibition Arendt Reading
I’ll Meet You Halfway, performance, 2010
Stand up, 2010
Seedless Bed (After Vito Acconci), Digital photograph intervention, 2011
Eating Fruit While Reading Poems by Pablo Neruda, performance for the camera, 2010
Concerning the Contemporary Landscape, photograph, 2015
An artistic gesture, conceived in the year 2013 for Laurie Beth Clark’s “Ossuary,” in which a rectangular hole is cut within a museum wall in an effort to consider the architecture itself, gallery intervention
The Impossible Death of Mallarmé Through the Eyes of Broodthaers, 2009
To Think of Things Impossible
C, sculptural situation, 2010
Attempt #45, 1 of 5
Double Void (BaldeKlein), manipulated digital photograph, 2011
Sharetopia, tumblr website
On Constructing a Black Hole, 1 of 3
Falling, performance, 2018
Waves Of Melancholy (lying on my left side), poem
Color Photograph, 2012
Later that evening we gathered in the drawing room (photograph detail)
Attempt #45, 4 of 5
Lacuna (Conduit), digital video, 2009
Flood, color photograph, 2010
President Reagan holds an oval office staff meeting on his first full day in office (from left to right) Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, Counselor to the President Ed Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker III, Press Secretary James Brady, President Reagan. 1/21/81. Digital Intervention 2013
Attempt #45, 2 of 5
President Kennedy signs the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the White House Treaty Room – October 7, 1963, digital photograph intervention
In Consideration of the Wall (red foam nose), gallery intervention, 2016
It’s a Wonderful Life or: How I Learned to Love Where We Come From, What We Are, and Where We Are Going 2008
Thank You for the Storage Space, 4 of 4
Lacuna (iceburg), sculpture, 2011
Coffee Story (with Spatula&Barcode’s project Café Allongé), performance, 2011
Untitled #1 (Waves), color photograph, 2016
Untitled (wave pile), 2012
Trickle Down, sculptural situation, 2010
don’t forget to have a good time
Shoot (Sans Burden), digital photograph intervention, 2012
Erased Rauschenberg Drawing, digital intervention, 2016
Wisconsin Triennial, “Sensible Analysis,” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI, part of Spatula&Barcode’s Café Allongé, 2013
An artistic gesture, conceived in the year 2013 for Laurie Beth Clark’s “Ossuary,” in which a rectangular hole is cut within a museum wall in an effort to consider the architecture itself
The Light That Never Goes Out Until It Does, sculpture, 2011
Comedy Routine, digital video, 2012
On Constructing a Black Hole, 2 of 3
On Attempting Negative Capability, performance/Installation, 2010
Lacuna (Conduit), installation, 2009
Flood, color photograph, 2010
“A Moment of Multiple Collapses During an RSA (Repressive State Apparatus) and ISA (Ideological State Apparatus) Event, with Additional ISA Events Aestheticizing Said Event for Consideration and Distribution (After Althusser, After Stephen Crowley/ The New York Times), appropriated digital Image, 2013
Sites of Representation, website, https://www.tumblr.com/blog/sitesofrepresentation
Thank You for the Storage Space, 1 of 4
Thank You for the Storage Space, 3 of 4
In Consideration of the Wall (red foam nose), gallery intervention, 2016
Let’s not shit ourselves, your illusions have always been made of blue tape, 16mm projector and duct tape, 2011
Deconstructed Iceberg, mixed media installation (cardboard, blue light, rock, tape, and hand-written sign), 2012
Self Portrait In a Movie That I Wasn’t In (Oceans Eleven, 2001), Film still intervention, 2011
To Think of Things Impossible (detail)
Lacuna (installation detail)
The Great Fall, photograph, 2007
Waves Of Melancholy (lying on my right side), poem
Void (after Yves Klein), digital photograph intervention, 2011
An artistic gesture, conceived in the year 2013 for Laurie Beth Clark’s “Ossuary,” in which a rectangular hole is cut within a museum wall in an effort to consider the architecture itself
The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is Still the Highest Form of Art (after Tom Marioni), 2009
Untitled (filmstrip for a utopian horizon), 16mm filmstrip, nail, 2012
Later that evening we gathered in the drawing room, champagne-filled balloon detail, installation (champagne filled balloons, black and white photograph, inner-wall audio)
Relatively Calm Water (lying on my left side, lying on my back, lying on my right side), poem
1 and 3 Plants, installation, 2008
Thank You for the Storage Space, 2 of 4
“too sad to tell” (After Bas Jan Ader), digital intervention, 2013
OnoBot Project, Interactive website (Javascript), http://onobot.tumblr.com
Here We Left It: A Dear Heart Dance Production, performance, 2010
Later that evening we gathered in the drawing room (installation)
Activist Art Exhibition Arendt Reading announcement, 2017
Falling, performance, 2018