Bollards and the Comedy of Hyperindustrialization

About the Project

@saintbollard is the moniker that Andrew Choate uses when performing in relation to bollards – the typically concrete and steel posts that form obstructions to traffic in order to protect buildings, equipment, and pedestrians. His images serve as an entry into a world of poems, songs, and stories that highlight the existential and comedic dilemma of making peace with the inanimate objects that surround us. 

These performances will be the Los Angeles premiere of a show that has been performed in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and New Zealand, where it won Best Performance Art and the Warwick Broadhead Memorial Award at the Dunedin Fringe Festival, and Best Newcomer at the Auckland Fringe Festival. The show combines @saintbollard’s images of bollards with analyses of social situations, songs, and poems – all with the imperative to access the emotional root of self-augmentation or purposeful debilitation in relation to pre-existing and often hostile architecture. The amatory is another emphasis 🙂

What real people say – 

Alexander Karasulas: I can’t express how whacky, surprising and entertaining Andrew Choate’s show is about…. well… bollards.

Tejo van Schie: This is an unexpectedly satisfying show. Very interesting and thoughtful and funny too.

Asia Kennedy:  I’m no closer to knowing what this show is, but one thing is for sure- there are few things better than someone being all in on something. This dude is all in.

Slate dubbed him “the world’s foremost bollard photographer,” and his project has been featured by Instagram, Atlas Obscura, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, Radio New Zealand, Quartz, Demo Design (Beijing) and the Otago Daily Times.