Throughout the trial, the artists spent their free time — all of their free time — obsessing over the details reported by the news.  They watched television broadcasts about the trial, read articles, and perused online chatrooms. Fletcher attempted to side with the defense’s position that Scott Peterson could have been innocent.  Reichert sided with the prosecution and argued his guilt.  They turned on their video camera and recorded their debate over the outcome of the trial in their living room, at the grocery store, in their bedroom… wherever they found a moment to argue.

For months a small court in Modesto, CA town fulfilled America’s insatiable appetite for Reality TV.  Continuing a theme in their work, Proceedings is about the power of the media to convey sensationalism through mundane details.  In every tabloid drama there exists a “that-could’ve-been-me” moment for the audience.  Seizing on the morbid and shocking outcome of the most widely publicized courtroom event in the United States since celebrity O. J. Simpson faced accusations for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole, Fletcher and Reichert seem to imply “that-could’ve been-art”.