Hughen/Starkweather's video Requiem was shown at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (please link to CJM SF home page), San Francisco, from Nov 2016 through June 2017 as part of The Yud Video Project and the exhibition From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art. 

Requiem was part of the Bay Bridge Project, (KayLynn, please link anything in blue to the Bay Bridge project page on the site) Hughen/Starkweather’s multi-year exploration of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Requiem investigates the damaged and dismantled East Span of the bridge, originally constructed in 1936 as a two-tiered railroad bridge. After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the bridge partially collapsed, and over the next 25 years was slated for redesign and demolition.  Starting in 2012, the bridge was gradually dismantled, and the 75 year-old metal workhorse, which was part of the daily landscape of hundreds of thousands of Bay Area commuters for decades, now exists only in documentation and collective memory. The video Requiem was made on the artists’ final drive over the condemned East Span of the bridge before it was permanently closed in 2013. 

As part of the Bay Bridge Project, Hughen/Starkweather spent over a year researching the bridge, its history, and its future. The artists conducted personal interviews with bridge architects and engineers; they researched commute patterns, environmental data, topographical maps and diagrams, architecture and engineering drawings, and historic and current photographs. They toured the construction site multiple times via foot, boat, and construction elevator (to the top of the 20-story tower scaffolding). See more images from that project here.