Missing Things
A 7 hour durational performance/ installation
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. imagine that if these bodies cut themselves shaving nothing would leak out but stagnant air. It does not sicken me as much as scare me, as I recognise one of those lined, hollow, pale faces to be my own reflection.
Eleven months ago 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. 
PERFORMANCES
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,
Sept 2004, Redeveloped and represented as part of the Merchant City festival, Glasgow, in connection with the National Review of Live Art, produced by New Moves International
April 05, Presented at the Royal Collage of Art, London as part of 'Don't interrupt your activities'.
Lighting Chris Nelms Video Kenny McLeod
