Measuring Stick involved the use of a fibreglass sleeve inserted into the sand just below the high tide level. This sleeve became the resting place for the performer, Arthur Wicks, who was strapped to a wooden "X" structure and lowered into the sand exactly at the low tide point. There he waited for the incoming tide to reach him. This took some six hours, the duration of the performance work.

Against the Tide was devised as a performance using an interior space as a foil to the exterior performance of Measuring Stick. After the performer, Arthur Wicks, has identified his space/territory, he positions himself onto a wooden "X" from which point a series of actions are carried out on his body. This parallels what is happening in the tidal zone on the other screen.