The piece featured in this short excerpt is titled "BENCH" and is one part of the trilogy, Shannon Public Works (SPW) WINDOW BENCH TRAFFIC. Each of the works within SPW represent divergent strategies of providing an invited or ticketed audience with an authentic experience of a transient form within the urban environment. Central to the conceptual development of SPW was the notion of a Transient Specific Work (as opposed to a site specific work) and how to mediate the impact of the live audience or camera on the environment the transient work thrives within. With BENCH the audience is provided an “in situ” experience of navigating the streets in 360 degrees through a synchronized six channel in the round video installation. The social and vehicular patterns that were naturally occurring around the transient form were preserved, in BENCH, through the employment of an unassuming dressed down suitcase rig featuring multiple micro-cameras. The original work was 16 min long and presented by Douz and Mille Gallery as part of Bill Shannon’s solo exhibit WORK in Manhattan 7/08. WINDOW was presented by LMCC in Manhattan 9/07, and Traffic was presented by MCA Chicago in 6/06. I will be posting excerpts of WINDOW and TRAFFIC here soon.