In a Moment

"In a moment this ice will melt and you will have to leave"

We display flowers in our windows and watch them die.

My Grandmother has been dying for 96 years.

Her body is decaying around her. Physically frail, so fragile.

She can no longer hold a spoon to her own mouth, but when I take her hand she squeezes it with such strength, that her fingers imprint their marks into mine.

I am interested in the fragile and temporary moments of human connection,

I am interested in the strength and longevity that lies within these moments,

I am interested in processes of change and my struggle to accept these processes.

I am interested in life as a liminal state; this place between birth and death.

"....In a moment..." is a Co-commission between Glasgow's Centre of Contemporary Art and New Moves International.

This piece of work was presented as a phase one (work in progress) as part of the CCA's The Magic of real life situations event,
Dec 2005

The next stage of the work was then presented as a series of one to one performances as part of the National Review of Live Art 2006, Glasgow

for more info on this years National Reveiw of Live Art please visit www.newmoves.co.uk

'A liminal state is a temporary state in the transition between two recognised and defined ways of being.'