We’ve shifted themes, to Isolation/Connection, and interestingly, the work has shifted as well. While it continues to be delivered in higher-than-to-be expected (for YouTube) forms of artistry and public discourse, the content has become more focused on pleasure and punishment by way of cultural difference. Elton Naswood’s work on two-spirit, Native men and HIV-reduction helps us frame our conversation through the distinctly raced, classed, gendered, and sexed differences that enable and block individual’s access to health, harm, and community.

Natalie Bookchin’s “Parking Lot” shows exuberant kids connecting through kinetic play within the isolating expanses of suburban and urban sprawl, while Claudia Rankine and John Lucas reflect the possible flip- or down-side to this (sub)urban anomie—imprisonment—an enforced loss of connection, and eventual release, its own form of isolation.

Barbara Hammer’s repurposing of her 1979 performance, Available Space, builds upon this already complex picture, adding to our deliberations how the constraints and freedoms of any one feminist, or even generation, need change (and perhaps better yet, connect) across time and through medium.