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Tiia Kelly

Image of opening page of Tiia Kelly’s interactive piece, How to be Located. Text: ‘how to be located @howtobelocated.’ Options provided: ‘I’m trying to find the context I need.’ and ‘There’s something I’m longing to return to.’

How to Be Located

Tiia Kelly, Voiceworks, June 2021

In this interactive piece by Tiia Kelly, the vanishing line between body and ghost, everything and nothing, is made apparent/apparitional.

J’ai perdu mon corps follows a disembodied hand after it is severed from the rest of its body in a woodworking incident. The hand gains sentience inside a medical fridge, before embarking on a journey back to the body it has just lost.

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