Body Loss | October

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.  

'Somewhere there is a Siren.'
 
Beginning with the utterance of a single note recorded into a looping device, she listens for the return of her own voice. Once heard, she responds with the same note again, and again, echoing herself until these single notes have grown into an endless chorus, a swarm, a sea, a body. Her voices fill the room with an ethereal presence, escaping into the world, untethered. Back on the ground, the body. Her mouth now fixed open in the shape of an ‘O’, as if the chorus of voices is forever streaming out all at once, or like they never came from her, to begin with—as if an unconvincing lip-sync has been revealed and suddenly the synchronisation of body and voice no longer match up—and something is no longer right.'

Credits
Created by Angela Goh
Performed by Gemma Sattler
Commissioned by Auto Italia
Body Loss was acquired by the University of Melbourne in 2024, following previous exhibits in London, Munich, Brussels, Austin, Melbourne, Sydney and Zurich.