Intersection was a collaborative, site-specific installation project i organized in early 2001, nominally as my senior project during the last semester of my undergrad years in the University of South Florida Art department. This was largely a collaboration with Lance Robson along with Ian Rywalt, and help from Sean Parrish.

Here is a set of pages showing some of our activity at Intersection; this was largely in projected media (slides, sound and video), along with additional alterations to the space.

In these pages you can see and hear a range of our experience in the installation, from what the space originally was (as we found it) to all our experiments inside it. This attempts to give an experience of our playful approaches to the project.

After the close of the installation I didn’t do what I had planned, and as a result (with everything that happened in the months and years after) I put this on the “shelf”, not to be touched for a very long time. As it’s now 25 years since the project happened, it seems like an appropriate time to re-visit this long dormant work.

What I had planned for the project post-installation was sketchy at best, something about a CD-rom, and maybe expanding the website. Although it had a decent run, CD-rom as a medium was relatively short-lived, and it would be a while until a website for this could be as expansive as we wanted at the time. In the end this project went from low-budget to no-budget pretty quickly. What did come out of Intersection was a lot of documentation, mostly with the constantly ready video camera, which Lance and I used liberally throughout the entire installation and also shows occasional appearances by Ian along with his contributions. This was all represented in a small way (literally for the internet of the time) on the project website, while we worked on this in real-time during the installation.

I’m now in a position to consider the documentation in a more careful way, and take some time in deciding how the project can be represented. In prior years I was overwhelmed by all this material. It’s a large amount of video and audio (mostly), but more than this its form is hard to pin down. This form is based on the space we occupied, a space wholly unlike any typical gallery space. We spent about four weeks getting to know that space, mostly during nights and early mornings; as a result, the documentation runs together in a large mass. Fortunately a small tally of notes helps to situate most of this material.

I think I’ve found a good way to do this, and one which shows what we were trying to do (in mostly awkward, sometimes half-assed, and sometimes very stoned ways), in a manner that fits with the spirit of it. It was the most ambitious project I had tried to assemble to that point, and while it was technically an undergrad school project, it was mostly outside of that umbrella. While very rough, I think it mostly benefited from that position.

I have to give thanks to my collaborators for their enthusiasm, ability to explore with me, and their extended time so long ago in what was a strange, very open-ended experiment.