Reality Models
5m 40s ● HD Video ● Colour ● Sound ● 2016

Peppermint Park was an educational home video series produced in the 1980s by a group of investors seeking to profit off the narrative models that Sesame Street invented for educational children's entertainment. The show features a cast of puppet characters who teach children various educational lessons, ranging from letters, numbers, colors, animals, and more. Growing up, a family friend had several copies of the VHS tapes and I remember being terrified of an unexplained dance sequence by a breakaway puppet dressed to look like a scarecrow. Recently, clips from the show resurfaced online, and my relationship with the dancing scarecrow shifted from horror to obsession.

Press: Contemporary Art Daily, Art Viewer, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, CultureFox, Schlosspost

Publications: Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry

Presentations

Hirngespenster, Kunstverein Braunschweig - Braunschweig, Germany
Gemini, Anorak - Stuttgart, Germany
Bread and Roses, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw - Warsaw, Poland
OA/AO, De Appel - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Andrew Norman Wilson, Center for Contemporary Art Futura - Prague, Czech Republic
Pretense, Human Resources - Los Angeles, California
Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone, CCA Derry~Londonderry - Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Minor Threat 1983, As It Stands - Los Angeles, California
A Coney Island of the Mind, Riverside - Bern, Swizterland 
Techne and the Decency of Means, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart + Theater Rampe - Stuttgart, Germany
Reality Models, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart +Theater Rampe - Stuttgart, Germany
Havana Film Festival - Havana, Cuba
Una presentación sobre la insuficiencia de las imágenes, Terremoto La Postal - Mexico City, Mexico
Uncertainty Seminars with Andrew Norman Wilson, Stroom Den Haag - Den Haag, Netherlands
Sekula Beyond Sekula: Andrew Norman Wilson, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary - Vienna, Austria
Andrew Norman Wilson, CaroSposo, Cinémathèque Robert-Lynen - Paris, France
The Artist Leaving the Googleplex, Microlights Cinema - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A Night with Andrew Norman Wilson, Shanaynay - Paris, France

Hirngespenster, Kunstverein Braunschweig - Braunschweig, Germany

Center for Contemporary Art Futura - Prague, Czech Republic

Pretense, Human Resources, Los Angeles, California

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Directed and Edited by Andrew Norman Wilson
Camera by Ben Clotten
Puppet Fabrication by Pro Puppet Makers Inc.
Puppetry by Jeremy Kerr
"Scarecrow Dance" by Peppermint Park
Production Assistance by Jordan Barse, Rob Sohmer, Jessica Wilson 
Produced by the Museum of Modern At Warsaw