Truck, text, journey.
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, 2012
Drive was a durational work which comprised of a text piece installed on a truck that was then driven on an aimless journey around Scotland on the penultimate day of GI 2012. The work was an exercise in the poetic capacity of literalism, in the gap between interpreting and performing a phrase and what might unfold from there.
The text took the place of a space normally reserved for company branding and either went by unnoticed, entered the peripheral vision of its chance audience or was interpreted in a range of different ways by those who noticed it through conversations in car parks and petrol stations around the country. From those who joked that it was about the Scottish Independence referendum or that it was about a well known pop song to those who saw it as a nihilistic existential expression, it activated latent political, philosophical and cultural associations throughout its journey.