'missing'
15 August 2009
4.30 - 7.30pm

The liminal art organisation is inviting all to join one of its rare participatory events in the streets of Stoke Newington. Following the casting of background actors, the event will encourage an awareness of viewers’ surroundings through their embodied experience. The title and theme of the event takes its inspiration from a short film produced in 1976 located within the areas of Hackney and Hertfordshire.

Integrating the surrounding streets and businesses, missing will attempt to push the viewer beyond the boundaries of the gallery space. A reception for the event will be held in the gallery.

Interest in notions of distinctions and thresholds has brought about a variety of exhibitions around the globe. However, many of these shows rarely escape the paradox of visibility, in relation to staying within the stages of transition. In the spirit of a fleeting flash-mob, missing, arranged by Gordon Edison McQueen and Catherine Magnani, aims to avoid a representation of the threshold. Instead, the threshold is made observable through the articulation of the viewer.

Gordon Edison McQueen has organised a variety of events around the notions of exhibiting, including a collaborative performance titled Plotting. His work surrounds the subjects of liminality and creative participation through the theories of systems thinking. Catherine Magnani is a British artist with interests in psychogeography and ephemeral art practice.

The liminal art organisation is a platform for researching models of liminality. The organisation is structured around exchanges with participants from within and beyond the limits of the art world.

For further information, please email missing@liminalart.org or visit www.liminalart.org