Posthumous Artist Tributes and Works
London-based choreographer and artistic director of Dance Art Foundation, Joe Moran dedicated his piece “Score for 30 Dancers” to Andrew Hull. It was presented on May 27, 2010 as part of “From Morning”, a day of dance and performance curated by London-based dancer and choreographer, Florence Peak. The piece was performed by thirty of the UK's most prominent dance artists and was made in response to an invitation to create a new site-specific work that spoke to the distinct architecture of Nicholas Hawksmoor's Christ Church, Spitalfields in the East End of London, the neighbourhood where Hull lived and died from 2008 to 2010.
London-based Dutch contemporary artist, Magali Reus, in the final credit of her 2010 video work “Finish”, dedicated the piece to Andrew MacKenzie Hull. The short work was premiered at Galerie Fons Welters in Amsterdam in July 2010 as part of a solo exhibition of sculpture and video titled "Weekend" and featured five athletes/actors racing against the backdrop of an ocean beach. Reus had previously featured Hull in her video “Conflicting Shadows” (2009) as the main actor playing an ambiguous street patroller at night.
In November 2010, Andrew Hull's life partner, artist Shaan Syed, began “The Andrew Project”, a street-poster campaign featuring one thousand identical line drawings of Andrew's portrait posted throughout Toronto, the city in which the couple first met in 2001.
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