This sub-series consists of video components, computer programming components, source tapes and language dubs used in “from the Transit Bar” as well as a wealth of documentation reflecting the enormous undertaking of the project in all of its’ numerous exhibitions and iterations. Included is: correspondence, programming notes, construction diagrams, budgets and catalogues for both phase one “…from the Transit Bar” and phase two, an exhibition at the Art Gallery of York University in 1993.
The work is a six-channel videodisk installation initially made for six monitors. The piece is concerned with the notion of displacement that is as axiomatic as trust between strangers and bar disclosures. Fourteen narrators tell fragmented tales of their experiences of deracination, love, exile and the bar where they meet, and these are interwoven to become a collective telling. Initially taped for documenta IX (Kassel, Germany) in the year the Berlin Wall collapsed, the recounted experiences are fragmented through different languages, with voice-over in either Yiddish or Polish, and sub-titles in alternating English, French or German. An edition of the work (as an “artwork”) was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada.

Film begins with footage of the paddle boat Casca on the Yukon River. There is footage of vegetation and some birds. There is a northern settlement shown with smiling children, fish hanging to dry, sled dogs and wooden house. Float plane CF-BD? is shown right before a number of aerial shots of mountain ranges. There is also a sequence showing the packing of a smaller boat with what is presumably research gear in order to further in land with a local(?) guide.

Location: Lake Ontario. Begins with an overhead shot of the Portmouth Olympic Harbour in Kingston with the label 'Day 5' before cutting to raw footage of the different sailboat races that happened that day, each labelled with the boat class and track name. Cuts to another overheard shot before showing a still picture of a sailboat with the label 'Kingston, Ontario'. Afterward come footage of Day 6 following the exact same format as Day 5, beginning with an overhead shot before cutting to raw footage of some of the races and ending with a still shot of several seconds. Footage of Day 7 is then shown in the same format. Footage from Day 8 is also shown.

Location: Lake Ontario. Begins with an overhead shot of the Portmouth Olympic Harbour in Kingston with the label 'Day 1' before cutting to raw footage of the different sailboat races that happened that day, each labelled with the boat class and track name. Cuts to another overheard shot before showing a still picture of a sailboat with the label 'Kingston, Ontario'. Afterward come footage of Day 2 following the exact same format as Day 1, beginning with an overhead shot before cutting to raw footage of some of the races and ending with a still shot of several seconds. Footage of Day 3 is then shown in the same format. Footage from Day 4 is also shown. Video contains on-screen notes which wouldn't be seen by a viewing audiencee, such as a green box advising 'repeat follows' and a countdown from 1 minute to feed time.