Since I graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2001 I have been creating, sharing, and participating in collaborative/interactive art that uses and re-uses ordinary objects, materials, and circumstances to help others to see their world differently. What started as a practice focused around IN TRANSIT: a portable gallery, which was a gallery with regular programming that existed inside a small red suitcase, quickly expanded into a web-based “school” called the IN TRANSIT Centre for Creative Observation where participants were invited to complete monthly assignments that were regularly posted on the web page. Since then, IN TRANSIT has presented a performance tour with Berkeley, CA musician Half-Handed Cloud, a two month long tea party performance, a series of “world record” prints, album covers, posters, peep box dioramas, a series of drawings based around TV viewing habits, and now a 16 mm film project.
The common thread in all of my work is collaboration. Whether it is collaboration with other artists, record companies, or viewers themselves nearly all of my work has involved other people. This 16 mm film project is no different. It is the most ambitious project I have worked on to date.
