Beginning/Middle/End is an ongoing series of site-specific installations/performances/interventions, with augmenting web components. Choreographing threads of multiple strategies through the physical and virtual, B/M/E addresses changing notions of time and narrative in a globally networked age. Begun in 2002, the work will be completed in 30 years in three stages. Beginning will last until 2012 at which point Middle will begin and end 10 years later with the beginning of End, which will come to an end in October 2022.
Realizing a 30-year project via the web is a self-conscious critique of the "culture of the instantaneous" that the Internet manifests and propagates. B/M/E will develop its own tactics as it evolves over three decades. At this point here is what I know:
- Beginning/Middle/End engages ideas of permanence and ephemera.
- Beginning/Middle/End circles around and about any possible associations with the three words, beginning, middle and end.
- Beginning/Middle/End deploys images, objects, and actions linked to specific geographic locations.
- These site-specific physical elements will include direction to Internet components.
- B/M/E elements on the Internet will spin the work in ways the physical installations and actions would not likely suggest.
- B/M/E overtly continues my ongoing examination of the ways that our lives are now lived with multiple standards of conduct and contradictory modes of identity in the physical world, the media world and the Internet.