In art, we are always searching for new relationships, trying to push things together that under ordinary circumstances repel. Because people are so familiar with the stationary quality of projections, the mobile projectors we were provided with gave us exactly what we needed as foreign performers: the benefit of novelty in such a way that it was not us as people who were initially noticed, but rather the images we made appear in the dark. While there were certainly limitations as far as the size of the projections, battery life, finding the right lighting, and resolution, I feel it was some of these limitations that made our projects most exciting. The fact, first of all, that we could only perform at night, or that we had to move quickly because otherwise our projectors might die, or that sometimes our pieces faded like ghosts when we walked through the better-lit nighttime streets—I believe these circumstances matched our purpose. Our projects were fleeting, bits of information that we interjected into a culture that existed long before our arrival and will continue to exist long after our departure. We were projecting our culture onto theirs. And if they were in the right place at the right time, passersby caught a glimpse of us.
-erin
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