Somewhere there is a Siren. The disembodied female voice is perhaps even more horrific than the female body. The dark in itself is not as frightening as the imagination it lures.

Sound produces an image – hearing the female voice provokes an imagination, and our cultural imagination of the female runs wildly through the depths of monstrosity. Throughout the history of folklore, film, and popular culture, the female voice is gendered, sensationalised, feared and fantasised as much as the female body – always on the unstable borders between the angelic and the horrific.

Like the voice, Body Loss erupts from the mouth – that tunnel between interiority and exteriority, biology and language, materiality and meaning – the fantasy and the gateway through which one can eat the world which is consuming it.

Angela Goh (b. 1986, Australia) is a dancer and choreographer based in Sydney who works with dance in theatres, galleries, and telepathetic spaces. Her work often deals with tropes of femininity, the supernatural, and dance as both a form and as a force. Recent presentations include the Art Gallery of NSW, the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Art, and Next Wave Festival. She has performed in major festivals and events including the Biennale of Sydney, Dance Massive, and Impulstanz International Dance Festival. She received the Impulstanz Dance WEB Scholarship (2012); was Artist in Residence at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia (2009 and 2011); and undertook a Critical Path Research Residency, Sydney (2014).