Ideas

I have collected a lot of statistics about missing people/ murder victims and cold cases and was shocked to hear that in the UK 600 people on average go missing a day. That is 25 people per hour. I was thinking of using these statistics in a digital timer based work, counting upwards the number of people that go missing per day. I could do this either by projecting the timer up onto a wall as it counts up to 25 every hour or somehow have a large timer on the wall. An artist called Darren Almond uses giant clocks in his work that presents the march of time.

I have also signed up to missing person's forum to ask if any of the family members or friends of a missing person would like to be interviewed. I liked working with video and projection so if I could interview these people about their experiences I was thinking of using their words and projecting them publicly. The artist Krzyszof Wodiczko interviewed war veterans and used their words as a projection around Liverpool city centre. He also used the sound of bullets as the words were projected onto buildings.

If I were to do this I would consider using sound this time as the whole video and projection art work is new to me and I have never used sound. Another artist that deals with public projection is Beveley Carpenter. She has used back projecting as I did last semester and also words and images projected onto buildings to highlight issues that are usually overlooked.

Another artist I have been looking at is Christine Borland, who deals with forensic science within her work. I find her work interesting because she raises unsettling questions by making works that are usually inaccessible to the public now visible. She has studied missing peoples cases and reconstructed those who have been found dead. Her work made me think of creating a cludeo type piece of work, where I leave clues leading to a missing person and the public have to find them.