Memos for the next millennium is a collaboration between myself and Lanussi Pasquali and Joãozito, an artist duo based in Salvador, Bahia. It was part of the Evanston Art Center's "Contact, Connect, Collaborate" group exhibition in January of 2010. Lanussi and Joãozito produced a video, which I tried to reconstitute physically through an installation onto which it was projected.

Each component of the video-installation interaction was produced independently, with each side of the collaboration remaining unaware of what the other’s final product would be. We wanted to take advantage of the uncertainty and indeterminacy of the outcome that is inevitable when the collaborating parties are separated by physical distance. Instead of trying to make up for this gap of connectivity, we sought to heighten the other ways of being connected. Rather than collectively determining what the outcome should look like, we chose to work separately, cultivating vocabularies designed to effectively intermingle when deployed. Over the course of a few months, we posted various images on a shared blog, as a way of giving reference points for the types of vocabularies we were working with.
This multiplicity of entryways inspired us to find non-linear associations of form and content in our collaboration, to map out subtle connections instead of tracing obvious ones. We wanted the intersection of our work to fuse together disparate elements, giving them room to transmutate and form hybrids.
I originally planned on involving more content in my installation, with a detailed wall drawing that would crawl over their imagery. But, as we got closer to the exhibition I became way more interested in creating a structural presence that would simultaneously disrupt and reconstitute the physicality of their video. So I ended up using fabrics of different textures and opacities which would capture the video in different ways, letting it open up on different planes.