Almost two hundred teenage girls participated in Under Construction, a public performance that culminated The Turning Point Project. It took place on a live construction site of a building in downtown Vancouver, with nervous owners and contractors watching several thousand people attempting to get inside the fenced space. Inside, girls dressed in construction boots, hats, and red t-shirts talked among themselves. For the audience, a sound broadcast girls’ prior-recorded and often hidden experiences--of parental expectations, alienation from school, sexuality, violence, eating disorders, depressions, relationships with other girls, and hopes and dreams.

The performance was about the visual presence of young women in the public sphere that positioned them for voyeurism not activism. They could be witnessed from holes in the fence and from television relays from the inside of the building, with patient waiting in line, they could be witnessed more directly inside the construction zone. The last act allowed the audience to enter the concrete platform where girls talked to each other, mixed and poured concrete, and painted each other’s hands, trading live conversation for the pre-recorded ones. The project is the subject of a 50 minute television documentary.