This installation was created with local artists Teresa Foley, Carolyn Speranza, Buzz Miller, Elvira Finnegan, and Liz Perry. In the weeks before New Year's Eve, 2000, we each shadowed someone who had to work on the night of the holiday, taping them doing what they would be doing as the clock struck midnight on December 31.
The resulting compliation was projected on a 36-foot screen, visible through the whole downtown area, as part of Pittsburgh's "First Night" New Year's Eve festivities.
We started out thinking of the project in apolitical terms, but as we looked for documentary subjects, we were confronted with inescapable divisions of class. The people who took us up on the offer were all in skilled and distinguished positions; they were proud of what they were doing, and didn't mind it splashed across the sky for everybody to see.
The installation was brought to a premature end when a gust of wind took the big screen down before it could be properly secured.
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