Scott N Andrew

Installation

Scott Andrew’s installation practice transforms physical space into immersive, often overwhelming sensory environments that extend the psychological, fantastical, and aesthetic themes present in his video and performance work. These projects typically blur the line between sculpture, ready-made objects, and projected media, actively integrating the viewer's body and perception.

Key installations in this section highlight immersive experience and critical engagement:

  • Queer Decadence & Theatricality: Works such as Gilding The Lily and Phase Shift utilize ornate, camp aesthetics—mirror frames, crystals, and colorful objects—to create multi-channel portals displaying alternate personas and mythological worlds. Similarly, Planet Dragulon creates a tacky, sci-fi landscape, while Night Fever examines the enduring aesthetic and cultural legacy of disco.
  • Ritual & Sensory Immersion: śarkarā (Sugar) invites visitors into a ritual space using sugar, sculpture, and video projections to explore themes of mortality and cultural excess. Glimmer employs a massive rotating mirrored crystal to refract video, casting audiences into a visceral, kaleidoscopic experience.
  • The Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) Products: Projects realized through IfNf often manifest as installations mimicking retail or wellness spaces, featuring bespoke products with a critical edge. Examples include the faux-research station Air Freshener (dispensing odorless Oxytocin), the orthopedic device Insole, and the absurd comfort item Pillow.
  • Interactive Environments: Kitty Kiddie Meow Meow, created for the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, transformed a gallery into a sensory-focused play space based on internet cat memes, demonstrating a physical re-engagement with digital cultural phenomena.

These installations foreground the material, sensual, and often absurd dimensions of living in a media-saturated world, inviting confrontation with spectacle and consumer culture.

A glowing blue "reflecting pool" art installation on a concrete floor, surrounded by dark stones.

Reflecting Pool

2024
Scott Andrew’s 2024 installation, Reflecting Pool, merges AI generative animation, sound, and sculpture to explore queer fantasy, post-humanism, and the Narcissus myth.
Performance art with people on a scaffolding structure under falling water, a gong, and a screen, against a dark, pyramid-like building.

Avalanche

2017
Avalanche (IfNf) is a complex media performance and water product satire. It uses a human filtration system and sound energy to bottle a manufactured avalanche, confronting climate anxiety.
Three golden busts of women with hands to their ears on a wooden table, with a golden cat figurine and bottles.

Night Fever

2017
Group exhibition (2017) at Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, exploring the aesthetic legacy of disco and its critical role in shaping queer and marginalized identities.
Installation with a TV displaying a hand exercise, gray exercise ball, gloves, and stones on a mat.

Carpal Tunnel Exercise

2016
Interactive art installation by the Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Nina Sarnelle, Agnes Bolt) that uses TENS gloves to simulate nerve relief while viewing the immersive film 'This is Presence.'
Various objects, including an avocado, nail polish, a "Blackwater" sun visor, and a "The Universe" Blu-ray, against a warehouse backdrop.

Ditherer

2016
Ditherer is an immersive VR project by the Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) exploring the complex, hidden histories and corporate fantasies of consumer products through surreal digital worlds.
Two people lie face down in grey, rocky alcoves. One is pale with bare legs, the other has tattoos and is covered by a white sheet.

Furthering Cream

2016
Furthering Cream is an Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) product—an accelerant aging cream grown and packaged in Southern California. The work critiques the digital wellness industry.
Six perfume bottles with clear caps, varying in liquid color from dark brown to light yellow, on a reflective white shelf.

Perfume

2016
Conceptual fragrance line by Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Agnes Bolt, Nina Sarnelle). Six scents blend natural herbs with urban/psychological notes.
Three white, organic-shaped air fresheners plugged into outlets, floating amidst white clouds. Text reads "Institute for New Feeling" and "100% Odorless Oxytocin.

Air Freshener

2015
Watch the advertisement for "Air Freshener," a conceptual art project by the Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Nina Sarnelle, Agnes Bolt). It features a ceramic diffuser releasing odorless Oxytocin.
Monochromatic image of a curved neck pillow and two feet against a textured background, with text "Institute for New Feeling".

Pillow

2015
Pillow is a conceptual product by the Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Nina Sarnelle, Agnes Bolt). This weighted cement neck pillow satirizes the wellness industry.
A severed foot with dark red nail polish floats above a colorful foot reflexology chart on a gray background.

Insole

2015
Discover Insole, a hybrid art installation and product by the Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Nina Sarnelle, Agnes Bolt). Explores walking as pressure-point therapy through invisible/felt corporate branding.
Close-up of a blue eye with "see me thru me see thru me" in a circle around the pupil, which is a dark sphere.

Lens

2015
Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) presents "Lens," a subversive product line of custom contact lenses designed to render the wearer blind by modifying both appearance and perception.
Woman in headphones and black clothing hunched over a textured, grey, abstract sculpture, reflected on a circular mirror.

seek

2015
seek is a 20-minute private interactive performance by the Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Nina Sarnelle, Agnes Bolt) that uses misused search engines to generate a clairvoyant video reading of the participant's future.
Storefront display with "FELT BOOK" text, a hanging felt sculpture, a neck pillow, and a small gray object on shelves.

FELT BOOK

2015-2017
The Institute for New Feeling's touring conceptual project, FELT BOOK, featured installations and interactive art by over 100 artists, critiquing wellness culture across 12 cities in 2015.
Person in leopard print, blonde wig, and dramatic makeup eating cauliflower.

A Girl Called Dusty

2015
A Girl Called Dusty (2015) features a performance video and the poem 'Dusty Says Goodbye!' which explores glitter, queer identity, consumerism, and eternal beauty through camp and critique.
Dark, ornate chandelier with glowing orange candles and long, red, braided strands hanging on a black background.

Phase Shift

2015
Phase Shift is a full-sensory multimedia installation exploring illegal cloaking technology, queer futurity, post-humanism, and shifting dimensions.
Close-up of a textured surface with small rocks and cubes, illuminated by a vibrant projection of pink, yellow, and white abstract patterns.

śarkarā

2014
Multimedia installation (2014) centered on a sugar-coated ritual space, exploring cultural excess, mortality, and queer futurity through video, sculpture, and a candied drag monster.
Installation view featuring a large, yellow, polka-dotted mouse-like form connected by a blue tube to a large ball of yarn. Floral wallpapered partitions and a cat-themed structure are in the background.

Kitty Kiddie Meow Meow

2013
An extravagant, tactile art installation built for kids at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. It uses oversized props to re-engage viewers with the physical joy of cat memes.
Seven ornate glass decanters, varying in size and shape, filled with colorful liquids, illuminated against a dark background.

Gilding The Lily

2013
Gilding the Lily is a 7-channel audio/video installation exploring queer identity, gender performativity, and post-humanist excess through confrontational, mythical, and absurd drag personas.
Sculpture of mirrored crystal shards reflecting purple and blue light onto a dark room and wooden floor.

Glimmer

2012
Kinetic video installation Glimmer (2012) uses a rotating, mirrored crystal structure to reflect video projections, creating an optical swarm that challenges viewer passivity and explores queer futurism.
A person stands inside a curved, translucent screen with vibrant, sparkling blue, green, and purple light patterns.

Sploshing The Void II

2012
Kinetic multi-channel video installation (2012) exploring queer futurity through a disorienting, hallucinogenic inter-dimensional portal. Features movement by Mitsuko Clarke-Verdery.
Two screens show a man's face and shoulders, overlaid with glowing green and orange abstract shapes.

Sploshing The Void I

2011
3-channel video installation (2011) that plunges the viewer into an interdimensional void where kitsch objects and doppelgängers swirl, questioning the permeability of the body and matter.
Ornate still life with a TV screen displaying a drag queen, surrounded by red and orange flowers, fruit, and feathers.

Planet Dragulon

2009
PLANET DRAGULON (2009) is a four-channel queer sci-fi video installation set in the Glitter Caves, following Captain Cosmo's quest against Queen Namby Pamby.