Haunting The Flesh

Created and Performed by: Papaphilia and Mossy 333
and Developed at the Brunswick Mechanics Institute

Score composed and produced by: Various Asses

Haunting the Flesh is a ceremonial exploration of growing and becoming. Through multidisciplinary performance modes Papaphilia and Mossy 333 attempt to capture the excesses of being that spill out in the daily conflict between bodily autonomy and settler notions of human civility – such as racial, sexual and gendered “purity”.

In this performance the pair will perform an experimental sound and dance experience that sees their bodies respond to aural and political chaos, and attempting endlessly to bypass the harsh realities of heteronormative authoritarianism.

Physically and aurally they will tell personal stories about their lived experiences as gender diverse subjects that are sexualised through lenses of femininity and associations of womanhood, and racialised through the complex visual tropes and societal structures of whiteness in Naarm.


Mossy 333 is a multi-disciplinary artist focused on painting, music, and performance. Her stage work evokes insight to the subjectivity of her trans feminine experiences regarding body and movement, casting a critical gaze on heteronormative cis-gendered conditioning. Her performances demystify the often essentialised idea of a trans woman, to remind people that “trans women are women with autonomy and complexities”.

Papaphilia produces experimental electronic dance music that aurally interrogates the aesthetics of political representation, exploring how sensorial disorientation informs collective belonging. She blends the poetics of exaltation and sorrow from 90s dance music, RnB, disco, pop and traditional pop standards, into an electronic palette drawn from the dystopian poetics of contemporary technological disposability. Slopped pop samples morph into the stoned rhythms of backwashed synths that ebb from the rhythmic flow of acid techno to deep house.


Presented as part of Critical Mass and Melbourne Fringe

Warning: Contains some nudity, sustained loud noises, potentially triggering content or themes, including Sexual References