Video performance / research for our project 'roots + wires', made in the summer of 2009 during our residency at Artengine in Ottawa.

One summer ago, we spent several days in Ottawa climbing statues and trees and rolling around on the lawn in parks. We were working with a slightly sprawling set of ideas about horizontal and vertical manifestations of power in public space. Without any clear agenda concerning 'our message', we wanted to follow a few leads and discover something about our inserting our persons into various spatial situations. The result was a video sketchbook chronicling several attempts to climb statues of famous people, the communing with a few new tree-friends, a dance that covered a wide expanse of lush grass, and footage of several different observed activities on the official lawn in front of our nation's Parliament Building.