Los Angeles based performance and visual artist Tim Youd has taken up residence in Kansas City for the next three weeks to re-type two novels set in the city.
Youd is re-typing Evan Connell's novels "Mrs. Bridge" and "Mr. Bridge," two books that depict Kansas City's upper-middle class in the 1920s and 30s. The performance is part of a larger project where Youd visits a city and reproduces a book written or set there on just two pages of paper.
"The top sheet gets saturated with a very dark rectangle of ink, and the undersheet gets a lot of bleed through from the ink," Youd says. "And that becomes like a mirror or ghost image of the top, and those two images are mounted side by side."
