Vay Kay was a multi-faceted performance project presented over the course of five days for the 2009 Here/Not There series at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Manifesting in four major performance/installations, Vay Kay was an exploration of the ironic tension between work and play created by ever shrinking windows of leisure time. These precious moments of "vacation" have become increasingly stressful in a culture that doesn't really know how to stop working and can only feign states close to the resemblance of relaxed.

Vay Kay was made possible with the invalluable collaborations of Ross Moreno, Dave Snyder, Lucy Chinen, Jayve Montgomery and the support of MCA curators Trisha Van Eck and Michael Green.

Day 1 kicked off the series with a visceral deconstruction of an argument had by the artist's travel-weary family during a vacation from his childhood. Here we find a microcosm of human society, condensced to the size of a car and hurtling at breakneck speed towards the Arizona meteor crater and a Hobbsean state of nature...

The installation involved four motion sensing audio lasers each connected to a different track that would play when activated by the viewer. The audio is of an argument that was written from memory by the artist that his family had while on a childhood vacation to the southwest.