Several months after 'Push the Envelope', the artists reconvened to make new work for a show at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. We chose to create a video installation focusing on the persistent distance between us. some of the most common refrains uttered during our original video conferences, "Are you still there? Can you hear us?" which came to act as a metaphor for the collaboration as a whole. Below are excerpts from the press release:
"The Space Between revolves around notions of distance, exchange and geography. In this time of globalization, when expedient knowledge transmission and the split second ability to connect to other cultures exists, we are continually experiencing the fragmentation of place, conversation, language, context and identity.
"Eight artists from Push the Envelope join together now to respond to and reflect upon initial conversations. Each artist developed questions in response to previous conversations, both for themselves and for the audience, and used video technology to create work in response.
"As though continuing the often-challenging attempt to communicate, questions and video responses are positioned back to back on monitors. The viewer herself connects the space between with vacillating movement: back and forth, from call to response, the here and there. Audio fills the room with questions that fracture not only the space, but previous conversations between the artists."
Still from my video for The Space Between video installation.