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About the performance
Pattern Recognition by Angela Goh
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JUNE 24th
19.00
Dancer and choreographer: Angela Goh.
Photo: Angela Goh, Pattern Recognition, 2023, Image courtesy of the artist and Fine Arts, Sydney.
Pattern Recognition is a new work by Angela Goh that brings into proximity recurring gestures of the mouth from her previous works, specifically Desert Body Creep (2016), Body Loss (2017), Uncanny Valley Girl (2018) and Sky Blue Mythic (2021).
Across these works the mouth has represented an uncanny passageway between the inside and outside of the body. The mouth is rendered as both flesh and void, and as a threshold breached—an alien-like tongue escapes, a voice erupts and is sucked back in, liquid is ingested or seeps out, hands reach in only to reemerge as another image of a mouth. By looping back and collecting these gestures together, Pattern Recognition highlights an evolution of form, expanding and entangling a body of work into new territories and trajectories formed by processes of recursion and deviation. Pattern Recognition is originally created as an exhibition of performances at Fine Arts, Sydney in May 2023.
Angela Goh is a dancer and choreographer. Her work has been performed at the Sydney Opera House, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Performance Space New York, Auto Italia, Baltic Circle, Shedhalle, and Taipei Performing Arts Center. She lives and works in Sydney.
About the intervention carry gather assemble fold by Storm Møller Madsen
how do we carry how do we gather how do we assemble through sites of tenderness and accountability how do we fold together and apart who is the we and the I that carries, gathers, assembles, folds …. together
Storm Møller Madsen is a queer, non-binary performance studies scholar, dramaturg, and curator. They are a PhD fellow at The Department of Arts & Cultural Studies at The University of Copenhagen. Their PhD project focuses on performance art by trans artists. In both their academic, dramaturgical, and curatorial practice they are invested in critical reflection, political awareness, and forward-thinking methodologies.
