recent: remote Marilyn Arsem A site-specific installation with performance located in a former Nike Missile base Produced by The Center on Contemporary Art recent:remote is presented in cooperation with the King County Parks System. Performance times: Saturday July 24 and Sunday, July 25 12 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM, and 6 PM on both days Seats are limited to 25 people per performance. Call CoCA (206-728-1980) for reservations.   THE EVENT recent:remote is an interactive installation/performance designed to examine our construction of history. On first entering the site, the audience will see fields, trees, sky-a secluded corner of the park. They will be struck by the seeming lack of activity and a sense of decay. Overgrown paved roads lead nowhere, foundations of ancient buildings crumble into the ground, and silence pervades. As the audience begins to explore the site, the piece will gradually reveal itself. Subtle, nearly invisible images, messages and sounds will be hidden in the landscape. The instructions that were received in advance will begin to make sense, and gradually the audience will uncover another world lurking beneath the surface. The audience members operate both as agents and archeologists in this event. Their task is to uncover the elements of the piece and then assemble them into some kind of order. Their participation takes place in three phases. Initially, on contacting CoCA and purchasing their tickets, the audience will be given a map to the site and a set of instructions. Each person's packet will contain unique information, which will not make sense until the event. Once the audience is at the site, they will examine objects, see actions unfold around them, hear sounds and perhaps engage in conversations with other people that they encounter. It is up to each individual to interpret the information. DEBRIEFING The audience will be invited to gather at CoCA on Tuesday, June 27th at 7pm, in order to compare notes and record the history of the event. BACKGROUND When visiting this former Nike missile base site, one is struck by the speed at which evidence of human activity disappears. It makes one consider how we think about the past, the efforts that we make to preserve the remnants of previous times, and the kinds of understanding that we construct of those periods, influenced by new information, contemporary issues, and continually changing attitudes. Marilyn Arsem is the founder of Mobius, an interdisciplinary collaborative group of artists who operate a performance/exhibition center in Boston. She has been making visual and performance art for the past 20 years and is an instructor of performance at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She is the recipient of several NEA artist's fellowships, numerous other awards and grants, and recently produced work in Macedonia as part of an exchange program sponsored by The Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Foundation.