Angela Goh

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Fine Arts, Sydney is presenting a work by Angela Goh. The work is titled ‘Predictable Dances’ and will be performed by the artist in the gallery. This presentation marks ten years since ‘Predictable Dances’ was first performed.

Each time ‘Predictable Dances’ is performed, the artist engages the services of a psychic to predict what will happen during the performance, and then performs that prediction. A dance is prophesied and it becomes true.

“Predictable Dances is not surprising nor seductive, it just is. There is nothing to fight for or to figure out, all that is needed is to sit back and let the future breeze past the present for a moment, without desire or meaning, but together with a dance that does nothing other than fulfil its own prophecy. In this moment, we don’t have to ask anything of the dance, like why it exists, what it means, or what it is doing here, because for a moment dance just becomes another given fact. It is just here, and that is the only reason it is here. Just because.” - Angela Goh

Angela Goh is an artist who works with dance and choreography. Her work is presented in contemporary art contexts and traditional performance spaces.

Angela Goh’s work has recently been presented at Buxton Contemporary | University of Melbourne; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Sydney Opera House, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Performance Space New York; Auto Italia, London; and Taipei Performing Arts Center. Later this year Angela Goh will present a new work at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art for the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.

For further information please contact the gallery directly.

Angela Goh, ‘Predictable Dances’
Saturday 19 October, 2pm

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All welcome