I staged an event in May 2006 in Seattle with four participants. The participants were chosen on the condition that they not know or meet the other participants prior to the event. They rode in two rented Lincoln Towncar on the highways of Seattle. In each car the participants (driver and passenger) each wore a video camera mounted on their head and a lapel microphone. As they rode the highways I recorded
their conversations, conversations about themselves, their interests, events that occurred to them and other subjects. The participants were directed not to mention each other by name and not to look at each other.
For the installation Are we there yet? I constructed four rooms, ten feet square, in the dimly lit main gallery room. In each room the audio and video of each participant, from the event I staged,
is presented via projectors and speakers. While the looped video is shown unaltered, the audio has been edited so that only the voice of that participant is heard, resulting in
a one sided conversation. When standing in one room the voices coming from the speakers in the other rooms are barely heard, creating a distant rumble, akin to highway noises.