Missing Things 1 & 2

Missing Things 1 – a 7 hour durational performance/ installation.
Missing Things 2 – a 7 hour reversal of the above.

Missing things – a lack of substance – an empty package
Missing things – an inability to find the Thing

Hurriedly flooding through the streets of Glasgow each morning, I observe a sea of drawn white faces: life less, colour less, blood less. I imagine that if these bodies cut themselves shaving nothing would leak out but stagnant air. It does not sicken me as much scare me, I recognise one of those lined, hollow, pale faces to be my own reflection.

Eleven months before making this peice an angry drunken Swiss woman said to me “K…you uphold everything European woman see British women as being. You are without substance. In these times of war where is your blood?”

White ness. White faces, white eyes, white fingers. White sliced bread, white ice cream, white sugar, white flour. Refined, bleached, artificial, processed, produced, true colour and substance removed. Industrialised and economically efficient. Socially produced and materialistically packaged. Pale and without substance. This loaf of bread, this body.

Developed in residence at The Centre of Contemporary Art, (CCA) Glasgow, Nov 2003 – Feb 2004
March 2004, Presented as part of the National Review of Live Art 2004, produced by New Moves International (NMI)

Following, and in response to, Missing Things 1 I create a second half to the work, Missing Things 2, a deconstruction and reversal of the actions and Installation of part 1.

Missing Things parts 1&2
Sept 2004, Presented as part of the Merchant City festival, Glasgow, in connection with NMI
April 2005, Presented at the Royal Collage of Art, London as part of ‘Don’t interrupt your activities’.