The Last Ovum

The Last Ovum was a live performance installation that explored the life cycle of the last ovum from inside a woman’s ovary. Over four hours, performance practitioners Angela Clarke and Vicky Kapo with visual artist Fleur Summers created a sonic/visual landscape of the last ovum.

This experimental performance took place in the black box space at Testing Grounds, on 21st September 2017 as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Using experimental sonic practices and live vocal loops, Clarke and Kapo traversed the imagined life cycle of the last ovum whilst Summers helped them create a live sculptural installation of an imagined woman’s ovary.

Clarke, Kapo and Summers are experienced practitioners in their own right who have came together to explore the performative encounter and how bodies, as sonic and spatial beings, can make the invisible, visible and the unheard, heard through multi-sensory performance.Clarke is a performance practitioner and (opera-trained) singer/songwriter. She uses body-centred practices to explore an unusual and extended vocal range. Kapo is a multi-faceted artist who uses whatever tools happen to allow fulfilment of the creative vision. She has received arts funding from multiple festivals across Australia and New Zealand over the past ten years. Summers is a visual artist who has been exhibiting her work for the last fifteen years in artist run galleries and other spaces in Melbourne.