Goodbye Body (2024)
Video, 5m27s
‘Goodbye Body’ is a speculative video work that stages a farewell to the biological body and an initiation into the vast expanse of digital existence. Framed as an intimate and reflective letter, the artist acknowledges the resilience and beauty of her physical form, while also confronting its limitations as she narrates her decision to transcend the confines of flesh and blood, to upload her mind and embrace the boundless possibilities of digital consciousness.
The piece unfolds as both a personal meditation and a broader exploration of posthuman potential. It engages with the tension between body and mind by speculating that selfhood and identity are no longer singular or anchored, but shifting, distributed, and transmittable. ‘Goodbye Body’ positions the body not as a site of purity or permanence but as a vessel that can be released, reimagined, or even redesigned. It situates this speculative departure within humanity’s longer desire to create life beyond death, an impulse once fulfilled through religious belief and now through technological intervention.
Rather than presenting technology as either salvation or threat, the work inhabits the uneasy middle ground, acknowledging our fascination, scepticism, and fear whild inviting viewers to contemplate the complex entanglement of human experience and technological advancement. It is an exploration of identity, embodiment, and the essence of what it means to be human in an age where the digital and physical increasingly converge.
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‘Goodbye Body’ is a speculative video work that stages a farewell to the biological body and an initiation into the vast expanse of digital existence. Framed as an intimate and reflective letter, the artist acknowledges the resilience and beauty of her physical form, while also confronting its limitations as she narrates her decision to transcend the confines of flesh and blood, to upload her mind and embrace the boundless possibilities of digital consciousness.
The piece unfolds as both a personal meditation and a broader exploration of posthuman potential. It engages with the tension between body and mind by speculating that selfhood and identity are no longer singular or anchored, but shifting, distributed, and transmittable. ‘Goodbye Body’ positions the body not as a site of purity or permanence but as a vessel that can be released, reimagined, or even redesigned. It situates this speculative departure within humanity’s longer desire to create life beyond death, an impulse once fulfilled through religious belief and now through technological intervention.
Rather than presenting technology as either salvation or threat, the work inhabits the uneasy middle ground, acknowledging our fascination, scepticism, and fear whild inviting viewers to contemplate the complex entanglement of human experience and technological advancement. It is an exploration of identity, embodiment, and the essence of what it means to be human in an age where the digital and physical increasingly converge.
- ‘Goodbye Body’ has been named a Semi-Finalist in the AI Shorts category at Reel Intelligence 2025, a festival celebrating innovative explorations of artificial intelligence in moving image. “Selected from hundreds of international submissions, the work stood out for its poetic meditation on identity, embodiment, and the shifting boundaries between human and machine.”
