ABSTRACT
Trinh: Perhaps we can begin with the work that you are doing now, since you are going to have a retrospective in the fall (2002).
Kirby: I’m going to be doing three nights of programs that I’m calling “Discrete and Continuous Boundary Problems.” The shows include a selection of recent and older films and videos, with an installation or performance each evening. One of the newest pieces I am planning to show is In Search of the Baths of Constantine. We’ve had con versations about this improvisational way of editing and the idea of whether the time of the performance is sacred. Here it was important that what I digitized into the com puter, the original gesture in time, maintain its integrity. In other words the meaning of the piece had to come from dilating the time within a particular moment rather than through the editing of images in time.
