About

Artists’ statement

We are a married couple who met in college in 1984. Since then we have worked individually as well as collaboratively using photography, film, video, and digital media. We have taught in the art departments of The Cooper Union, Rutgers University and the University of Florida.

The primary focus of our work is, what we call, the transportation of place — situations in which one limited or isolated place strongly resembles another distant one. Everywhere, not only in the new world, such situations are accumulating and accepted as genuine locales. Traditional notions of place, in which culture and geographic location neatly coincide, are being challenged by legacies of slavery, colonialism, holocaust, immigration, tourism, and mass-communication. Whether the subject is Germany in Africa, Germans dressing as Native Americans, American towns dressed as Germany, or New York in Las Vegas, our interest tends to be a place out of place with its various causes and consequences.

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