Andreas Buchwaldt

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Andreas Buchwaldt
Andreas Buchwaldt is a multimedia installation artist and freelance labour activist based in Toronto, currently completing his PhD in Visual Culture at The University of Western Ontario (UWO). A common theme running through Andreas’ practice is an interest in networks, exploring ways objects/sounds/people can interact within organized systems. These systems explore the possibilities and impossibilities of collective action. His research at UWO combines an examination of participatory archival strategies in contemporary art with the making of interactive archiving machines. For more information visit Andreas' website.

US Elections 2020: Hiding in Plain Sight ​

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Andreas Buchwaldt, "Return of the Embassy Hotel", 2020; 360 Degree Photograph
Artist Statement: ​The Embassy Hotel, the building that housed the Embassy Cultural House (ECH), was demolished in 2009, just before Google Street View was able to document the site. If you go online all you’ll see is an overgrown empty lot with a 6ft surrounding metal fence.  Andreas Buchwaldt's Return of the Embassy Hotel tells an alternate story by inserting an archival image of the building’s facade into its original location within the online panoramic mapping tool. To fight against government corruption that hides in plain sight community hubs need more than ever to be visible, be that in a physical space or a virtual one. The reinvigorated ECH project can be one of these hubs again, and we want to be seen.

Recent work by Andreas

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Growing On You, 2016
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Tuesday Night, 2019
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Decompression, 2017
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Accordia, 2015
EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS  
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen & Michelle Wilson. 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt
OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 
The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the Mentorship program established by the Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and faculty of Arts & Humanities at Western University. 

Thank you to our partners

E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located in London, Ontario, Canada on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial. 
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