I blindfolded myself from the moment I left my house on January 28 until the day I returned the evening of the 30^th for a visit to Washington D.C., a city I had never been to before. I took part in protests against the inauguration of George W. Bush on Saturday and the following day visited popular tourist attractions on the national mall.

Merritt E. Johnson and I built a four tier wedding style cake. I rolled the cake through the heart of downtown Pittsburgh, the whole time watching it melt. In Mellon Square I gave pieces of cake to the lunchtime crowd and engaged people in conversation about May Day, politics, human nature, what art is and also: the pleasures and subversive dangers of cake.

Loser/RE: FREE TV!! evolved from a practical joke that an anonymous individual played on me when I forgot to log out of a cluster in Wean Hall. S/He sent me a nasty message and also e-mailed a b-board stating that I was giving away a free television, I decided to treat it as a divine mandate of sorts and proceeded to search for a Sony television that fit the description of the e-mail message (three years old, 27 inch etc.) On May 11, I had a "gameshow" in a set constructed in my studio. There was only one rule: those who wanted the television had to decide who amongst them deserved it…by unanimous decision.

I engaged in a one-week performance at the invitation of the school of art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Several weeks before my residency, I isolated myself in a room and tried to imagine the kinds of dialogues that I would have. I then created a "phrase map" to which I limited all of my speech in conversations for that week.

"...we decided to draw our own sense of place--a "caricature" of another world.To explain briefly: we decided to make drawings using the streets and sidewalks as our literal "ground." Inspired by the Belgian born, Mexico City artist Francis Alys, we wanted to use a can of dripping paint to mark our path. To make the largest drawings possible, stretching from one end of Montreal to another, and inspired by the ubiquity of bicycles in the city, we outfitted ours with a paint dripping system, transforming them into drawing contraptions..."

Siobhan Rigg and I collaborated while we were at the Fachhochschule Schwabisch Hall, Hochschule fur Gestaltung, in Schwabisch Hall, Germany. After initially developing the idea in Pittsburgh for a mobile video installation, to be rear projected on a screen stretched at the back of a van, we decided to try our hands at realizing it during our stay in Germany. The project was presented as part of the show: Vorbeigehend/In Passing that was at the University.