Your Vacuum Sucks
A film by Pieter Schoolwerth and Alexandra Lerman
2015, 39 min, HD video, color and sound
Produced by Pieter Schoolwerth, Alexandra Lerman and Miguel Abreu
Featuring (in order of 'appearance') Nate Young, Pieter Schoolwerth, John Olson, James Baljo, Madeline Hollander, Dean Bein, Anarexia Hurls, Mike Caiazzo, Alanna Higgins, Amina Oliveros, Dave Castillo, Contessa Stuto, Judy Schoolwerth, and Blake Rayne.
Music by Nate Young (Wolf Eyes), Soren Roi (RØSENKØPF, Nothing Changes NYC), and Jonathan Canady (Deathpile, Angel of Decay).
Special Effects by Maria Beliaeva and Alexander Chertok
Sound Mix by A.J. Tissian, The Wave Lab NYC
Your Vacuum Sucks is an episodic film by Pieter Schoolwerth and Alexandra Lerman in which the lead character has been digitally erased from the image. Appearing as a hole, a shadow, or a mirror reflection of his properly embodied friends and coworkers he pays a friendly visit to in each of the four scenes, he engages in a series of rebus-like exchanges in which he attempts to negotiate the nature of his existence, whereby he is present to others literally through his own visual absence.
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Bios
Pieter Schoolwerth has exhibited internationally with notable solo shows at Thread Waxing Space, Greene Naftali, American Fine Arts Co., Elizabeth Dee Gallery, and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York. His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, 303 Gallery, and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York. In 2014, Schoolwerth had solo shows at What Pipeline, Detroit, Gallery SKE, New Delhi, India, and a two-person exhibition with Jonathan Lasker at Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid. His latest solo show at Miguel Abreu "Your Vacuum Blows, which Sucks" took place in April, and he will participate in a group exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ in London in June.
From 2003 to 2013, Schoolwerth ran Wierd Records and the Wierd Party at Home Sweet Home on the LES of NYC. Wierd released music by 42 bands working in the genres of minimal electronics, coldwave and noise, and produced over 500 live music, dj, and performance art events internationally (www.wierdrecords.com).
Alexandra Lerman has exhibited at SculptureCenter, Tina Kim gallery, Where, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Anthology Film Archives, and Queens Museum. Her collaborative explorations have been shown at Austrian Cultural Forum, Artists Space, New Museum in New York and MUSAC in Spain. Alexandra took part in the Art&Law Program, LMCC Workspace Program in New York; Banff Centre's "01 The Retreat: A Position of DOCUMENTA (13)" in Alberta, Canada and is participating in Open Sessions at the Drawing Center, New York. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, 2012 and a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, 2004.
