Near your sorrow 2014

live performance, The Lock Up Contemporary Art Space, Newcastle.

Part of Enduring Parallels performance exhibition.

In this performance the artist attempts to inhabit a space that is present with something that has passed, a futile pursuit to reunify a time and place that has gone.

For 18hours the artist will sing along with a recording of a loved one who has passed away, singing together in harmony but very much apart.

This performance is about the incomprehensibility of the loss of something so great. A longing that can never be cured, a love and loss that can never be fully grasped; the attempt to find a place where the present and past can exist together, is an inevitable impossibility.