Performance, 35’

Beginning at the site of the mouth and expanding out to encompass the entire architecture, Body Loss transforms the limits of the body and the structures that contain it.

A single utterance grows into an endless, ethereal chorus. The voice becomes a sea on which the body is set adrift. Climbing, scaling, bearing down and floating upwards, the body is both freed and constrained. The mouth, fixed open, becomes a gaping hole, a channel, a cipher, through which something might creep in, or out. Through the mouth, the body empties and devours at the same time.

Body Loss is a performance concerned with breaching limitations—bodily, architectural, and cultural—in order to disturb what is constrained, and leak what is uncontainable.

Body Loss, Angela Goh, The University of Melbourne Art Collection, 2024