Swimming to Inishkeel
Ekstasis
Concrete Republic
Traffic Island 
Prison Farm

Watchtower
Katrina
The Dog Tail Wars
Empire/Umpire
Hostis
Body Fluid Bed
Hanging Creatures

Homeless Deaths  
Poster Project
Full Shackle
Sapa
Swollen Eye
Frontiers
Deed

Every Revolution
Forces
Boarder
Surveillance Chair
Suite
Cruise Control

Ostrich
The Big Silence
Asylum Screamed
Think No Evil
Belfast
Crisus

EMPIRE/UMPIRE

2004 
Centre for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL
The Big Top, New Orleans, LA

Empire/Umpire grapples with the delicate balance between security and civil liberties in our current war on terrorism. September 11th has transformed America both politically and psychologically. It has shifted perceptions of what is acceptable. At what point does the need for security override civil liberties and human rights? Where do we as Americans fit into this picture and what are our responsibilities? Does our acceptance become complicity?

These are the questions asked of the audience as they climb the two sets of steps and walk across the twenty-foot dining table. When the audience reaches the end of the table, they can peer down through a skylight in the holding cell and view a breathing figure. It is here they realize that as they climbed the steps, they were causing the ropes to tighten around the figure in the cell.

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