12 minutes
Sound (electronics and vocal processing) for performance
2025
PLUNGE is a collaborative work between Indonesian performance artist Victoria Kosasie and American time-based media artist Marleigh Belsley exploring the silencing of women’s voices and the search for catharsis, using water as a place of solace and release. In a ritual of unravelling, Kosasie moves from silence to eruption as she screams, sings, and exhales into a tank of water. Her voice, muffled and submerged, is captured and transformed by Belsley’s live soundscape of distortion, echo, and reverb. In a world women live with the constant undermining of their lived experiences, the work questions: “How do women carry rage that has no clear outlet, no permission to be expressed?” This piece sits between performance and sound art, unfolding as an act of catharsis and reflection.