with his wife and Charles Stein performing (in the Quasha Stained Glass Studio). 1985 Returns to Japan to live and work in Tokyo. Meets Kyogan Master Don Kenny who performs along with Kathy Bourbonais in URA ARU (the backside exists). As artist-in-residence at SONY in Hon Atsugi, completes the first edit of the work. Moves to Seattle, Washington and establishes a video program at Cornish College of the Arts. 1986 Birth of daughter, Anastasia. First encounter with the writings of Maurice Blanchot, specifically Thomas the Obscure, which he draws upon for the installation In Situ. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. 1987 Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, and exhibits CRUX as a "performance installation" in the auditorium. Visiting artist at the California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, Santa Clarita. 1988 Completes Incidence of Catastrophe, also inspired by Blanchot's Thomas the Obscure, which receives first prize at the World Wide Video Festival in The Hague and at the Montreal Independent Film and Video Festival. Travels to Paris for six months as a National Endowment for the Arts Exchange Fellow and is commissioned by the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou to produce a new work. In the first major collaboration with George Quasha, adapts selected Gnostic texts and eventually produces the installation Disturbance (among the jars). Meets Jacques Derrida who plays a central figure in the piece. 1989 Produces Site Recite (a prologue), commissioned for Spanish Television as part of the series El Arte del Video. 1991 Exhibits the video installation series And Sat Down Beside Her at Galerie des Archives in Paris. Again, fragments of Blanchot's writings appear, as well as Anne Angelini who performs for the work (and meets "Anne" in Thomas the Obscure). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, exhibits Inasmuch as It Is Always Already Taking Place. Commissioned by La Sept of Paris for Live, a series of real time videotapes proposed by Phillipe Grandieux, and produces Solstice d'Hiver, a one-hour real time recording. 1992 Commissions Dave Jones to design a computer-controlled video switcher for a number of "switch" pieces, the first being Between Cinema and a Hard Place. Meets artist Marine Hugonnier who later appears in Suspension of Disbelief (for Marine). Returns to Paris as artist-in-residence at the Hôpital Éphémère. Recipient of a second Guggenheim Fellowship. 1993 Premieres the installation Tall Ships, commissioned by Jan Hoet for Documenta 9. First