Video:

Andrew Gurian joined the TP Videospace Troupe (founded and directed by Shirley Clarke) in 1972. As a member he participated in live video workshops throughout the 1970s at the Kitchen, Antioch College, Museum, Bucknell University, Wesleyan University, and the Flaherty Film Seminar. For the TP he directed video shows at Young Filmakers/Video Arts, New York University, Corning Public Library, and the State University of New York at Oswego.

Video installations include "The Two Smallest Video Pieces in the World" for the 13th Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York (World Trade Center, 1977), "Ship of Fools," "The Haircuts," "Tea for Four: Video Feetback," "The Mouse Tale," and, for Art Under Construction, "Water and Electricity: Homage to Alfred Hitchcock" (1981).

Collaborating with Scott Caywood he has created several dance/video/theater pieces (including Train of Thought, 1996) at the Construction Company from the early 1990s.

Gurian received a New York State CAPS grant with Liz Pasquale, and together they produced Project Inside Art, a dance/video collaboration with prison inmates.

Recent work includes Dancing Heads, Dancing Feet, a video/dance installation, and Oedipus at Colonus, a video opera written with Carolyn Lord, both at The Construction Company. Other installations are the paired Grande Horizontale/Verticale + Nijinsky’s Last Dance (2002) and Rosa Ponselle’s Piano (2005), created for the Third MusicCircus. With Marjorie Gamso he incorporated live feeds of the 2004 Republican National Convention into a two-part political protest Topsy’s Lament. In development are a performance-installation "UP" and a piece about NATO, "La Marsellaise," and Baroque dance.

Gurian provided the video component of Leslie Satin’s dance pieces Shadow Load (2003), Blind Summit (Joyce Soho, 2004) and Under Cover (2005). Their ARIA: On Line was part of Movement Research’s 2005 Publicsleep/Sleepover Open Source at Artists Space in December 2005.

Film:

Gurian’s films include That Rotten Teabag (1964, 16mm, 3 mins.), Cecile Comes to Southampton (1966, 16mm, 10 mins.), and Radio Movie (1967, 16mm, 17mins.).

His films are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, and Young Filmakers/Video Arts (now Film/Video Arts). They have been exhibited on television and in museums and festivals worldwide.

He has made films for Curriculum Consultants (about human development), Jacques Jaumet, Inc. (about men’s fashion), Hospital Workers Union (about older-adult education), and the League of Women Voters (about how to vote). He has taught filmmaking at the New School and the New York Institute of Technology. As cameraman he has worked on G. Toro’s Black Coffee, B. Shils’s and T. Lucas’s Doing Justice, and Shils’s, S. Brown’s and E. Nagler’s The Joneses, C. Goss’s William S. Burroughs (videotape) and, as associate producer/editor, on P. Perlman’s Emmy-nominated Electronic Couch (videotape). Collaborations include a film for Gamso’s dance Fugitive Furniture (1983).

And:

Gurian’s article "Thoughts on Shirley Clarke and the TP Videospace Troupe" is published in the Millennium Film Journal (Issue 42, Fall, 2004).

Gurian appears in N.J. Paik’s and H. Weinberg’s video tribute Topless Cellist: Charlotte Moorman. He is on the Board of Directors of the Bel Canto Society, Inc., and has been associated with The Construction Company since 1980.

He has been the Film and Video Screening Coordinator for La Mama’s "Dance on the Lower East Side" series; a founding member, in 1971, of "Queer Blue Light"; and Associate Director of the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York.