With her lurid, bulbous head, goggling, chameleon-like eyes and plaintive chatter, Tony Oursler’s biomorphic video-sculpture Sang is as off-putting as she is unforgettable. With no body to speak of, she’s the original talking head, magicked up from light and sound into a strange stand-in for a living being. If she’s less than human, though, no one seems to have told her – she seeks our attention and involvement with an urgent and unsettling intensity.

(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)

Transcript of Sang's monolgue:

Close close close clean clean clean Sang

Cold cold cold cold black guard pattern clouds clouds clouds clouds clouds

Come come come come come sheen

Hard hard hard hard hard image hot hot hot hot hot hot

Atmospheric, static, velvet

Exposure, fog fog fog fog star star star star star

Lips lips lips lips lips lips

Light dark rush rush rush rush rush rush.....

Plot catch rainbow rainbow rainbow rainbow rainbow rainbow

Black black black black black

Kill coax coax coax coax

Fall tension tension, wonder bright burn want want want want weave wonder rush wind wallow out

Help help help help help help help help test follow voice skin sonar?

Life life life life life life life life life ........

Soft black box blow trip trip trip trip trip trip trip trip

Crash

Colours, cool good glow gone perfume perfume perfume perfume

Smile smile smile smile

Number number number number number number number number number number number....

Spectator crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy.....

Message money money money money money money money money money money money......

Mud sacrifice primitive primitive primitive

Image seeking seeking seeking seeking seeking seeking seeking

Dream dream dream dream

Close close close

Clean clean sing cold cold cold cold