Laura Kavanaugh and Ian Birse participated in an open studio residency based on their ongoing Instant Places project:

'Instant Places is a series of installation/performances that focus activity on a particular place and time. Over the course of ten days locally gathered audio and video is transformed via improvisations in an immerssive space. Each project can be thought of as an evolving portrait or journal that is specific to the conditions surrounding it, while allowing indeterminate and personal forces in the outcome.

The work is done in open-studio sessions. people are free to drop by and watch, to see how the piece is changing, and ask questions.

The Instant Places concept emerged from a series of installation and performances using locally gathered material dating back to 1999. The work could be described as trajective in that it operates in a state of flux between the subjective and objective, as input from the world is perceived, framed, recorded, edited, and recontextualized in time and space.'

- Laura Kavanaugh & Ian Birse