Artist Statement

>I have you programmed into a cell, as an activist. > That gives you five minutes of solo flight. What is solo flight? What do you expect from an activist? Some kind of prepared verbal statement (preferably evocative or provocative) to be delivered [preferably enthusiastically] to a group? I had proposed a kind of small performance piece that was interactive with a prepared video tape, but it feels like you aren’t expecting anything so elaborate. I will bring my own copy of Chairman Mao’s “Little Red Book” as a backup.

• Doug Porter (Canada) teaches part-time at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. He recently signed a contract to guest curate an exhibition of digital work for he Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax in the year 2000.