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Andy
Anderson aka Dr Neupop
Attended Edinburgh Art College 1960-61.
Dropped out,
went back to Brighton to work with the beat Brighton Beach poets
John Upton and Roy Pennington.
In 1967 - 69 he worked with the Filmmaker Jeff Keen and his
ACME Generating Company.
During this time he exhibited in The Brighton Combination
and the Crypt at Sussex University.
On return to Edinburgh, 1974-78, he began to get published and
exhibited visual material in the Lothlorian Bookshop
and the Blue Parrot in Edinburgh’s new Paperback Book
cafe scene.
In the seventies
he also become an educator and worked with the radical free
school, Hillside, to take kids on field trips to Derelict
Buildings to look for 'found objects as toys and art'.
He has always encouraged people to take things apart, metaphorically.
He showed in Edinburgh flats and studio galleries, 1974 - mid
eighties.
He studied in the art college art library from 1984 - 1999 where
he met all the people
connected with this art show.
In the 1974
he moved to Stockbridge, bin-raking and selling junk to support
his family.
He regularly corresponded with William Burroughs before his
death.
Andy Anderson ( aka Dr. Neupop ) says ‘William Burroughs
has been the biggest single influence on my writing’.
He exhibited again in 1986 in the Blue Parrot Cafe, in a solo
show entitled Treens in High Heels, in the embrionic pop art
revival in Stockbridge Edinburgh.
A performance artist since 1967 on Brighton Beach, he now works
with Theatricum Botanicum theatre company, his latest performance
being Macbeth with Danni Minogue (Edinburgh Botanical Gardens
Edinburgh Fringe 99).
In the early 1990’s he began his main work in the Theatre with
Jason Malcolm-Herzmark and Jim Anderson (his son), Mr Mallard
and Polly Verity in the toto show.
Co-founder of the toto show clown troupe 1995 at Edinburgh
College of Art, in the Wee Red Bar, he performs occasionally
as a clown, in local bars, theatres, galleries, parties and
night-clubs.
As contributor to Theatricum Botanicum, where he has
worked with Toby Gough, Jason Herzmark, and Danni Minogue, which
won three Scotsman fringe firsts.
Linnaeus prince of Flowers (Edinburgh botanical Gardens
Edfestival fringe 96, Glasgow Mayfest 97 ) , Joseph Rock,
Plant Hunter ( Botanical Gardens Edinburgh Festival fringe
98 ), and Klytemnestra’s Bairns Carlton Hill 1995.
He wrote three speeches for the promonade of Macbeth in the
Botanical Gardens Ed Festival Fringe 1999.
He appeared in Cyburb in Virtual Reality (ChristChurch Drama
Centre ChristChurch, New Zealand ) in 1997, a live-video
rock opera by Jason Herzmark and Toby Gough.
Andy”Atoms That Speak”, now sadly out of print ( Dream
Machine available for printout on Neupop
Web Site ) and gave a lecture on philosophy at Edinburgh
University.
His theme
for this show is Multi-Image-Pop, which includes references
to I.Q. tests, Rorschach, excremental art and cultural warfare.
Now almost
60, he works under the banner of Neupop International as Doctor
Neupop aka Dr Inkblat, aka The Inspector.
A promoter of re-assessed pop-art using new techniques and imagery.
Traditionally a filmmaker he moved to video in the 80's.
His epitaph
: ‘Pop will never die’.
His
has been working on the web since 1996,
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