Grace contrasts Marina Abramović’s face-to-face communion at MoMA with the disembodied, behind-the-screen sonic performance of St Andrews student band Thrush.

"Abramović’s The Artist is Present elevates the body and the face to create a sacred site of presence and connection, whereas Chirnside and Liddell’s Five Hundred Thousand deconstructs the necessity of the face, demonstrating how absence, sound, and visual obstruction expose our fragile preconceptions of identity and performance."