T H E T H I N G T O M I S S M O S T
written, performed and directed by Ankita Mishra and Christina Poblador (Goldie), "The Thing to Miss Most" is an exploration of both artists' connections to their respective homelands in the Philippines and Northern India.
Mishra and Poblador create a multi-sensory experience through which lessons from their personal immigrant and immigrant-adjacent experiences can be shared, weaving together poetry, hand-picked scents and interaction with the audience.
The Thing to Miss Most was performed twice at Arete Gallery, Brooklyn and The New York Poetry Festival on Governor’s Island in 2018.
Together with Poblador's ritual glass objects and Mishra's experimental performance background, The Thing to Miss Most is a dynamic exploration of ancestral memory and self.
The artists posit that scent is at the core of making meaning— providing an invisible balm for fragmented family memories, a home for colonial trauma and a signifier for the distance that engulfs honesty and communication between kin.
