Oo, missed the performance today but will have to check it out tomorrow. Did you see Jesse’s show at Fourteen30 contemporary earlier in the year? It was nice seeing the smaller stuff (the hubcaps, the beaded seats) with the “monumental”-type video stuff; it adds another dimension. As for content…We were in school at the UofO at the same time; I remember him prefacing his work as a love letter to the car, an “ode to the automobile.” My mind always goes to some of the machismo ‘70s folks when I see his work, i.e. Richard Serra in the way that he works on a large scale and plays with anxiety/your sense of safety (Serra doing a similar thing with his lead lean-tos, which feel like they might come crashing down at any moment). There’s humor in it too—it’s like the white, modular (soccer mom) mini-van has become this odd surrogate for the postmoderny “white cube.”