She received a fellowship from the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York in 1998 and completed an MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002.

Hollis Frampton's original work captures an argument between a couple and cuts it up into a series of rhythmic, repetitive, fragmented phrases.

As the tape moves around the space, it passes through two decks—one continuously lays the track down while the other erases it, therefore, providing visitors an intact soundtrack in one location and a fragmented version in another.

Video footage of a model of the interior of Mir constructed in Tribe's studio is intercut with various archival materials related to this moment in history, including film footage of a performance of the ballet Swan Lake that was used to censor Russian news broadcasts of the political turmoil, images of tanks on the streets of Moscow, and photographs depicting aspects of the Russian space program.

The film is based on the true story of an anonymous, memory-impaired man, the famous amnesiac known in scientific literature only as "Patient H.M." In 1953, when he was 27 years old, H.M. underwent experimental brain surgery intended to alleviate his epilepsy.