Bill of Lading

 “Bill of Lading” exists as a list of visual and sonic images that have been extracted from Amazonia. Each time it is shown, I document its importation to that gallery, providing all the necessary translations or transformations, and require a receipt from the gallery as documentation of carriage of these items, which will be included in the next showing. Thus the work accumulates documentation tracing these materials from Amazonia to their current location via all of the previous locations where it has been displayed. There is a stipulation that the work cannot be shown in two places at once, as it must contain documentation of its previous showing. The work has been shown three times in New York, once as an installation and twice as a performance, and it has also been shown once in Japan as a sound and text work.