Youngsook Choi brings the 2nd iteration of her participatory performance Book of Loss 2022/25 to Tate Modern. The performance will be streamed online only as part of the day-long broadcast of actions by artists participating in Remember Nature 2025. A fifteen-minute excerpt of the performance will be streamed via the Remember Nature website. This livestream is free and open to all.
The performance commemorates the seven major glaciers lost in recent years in relation to the increasing threat of flooding around the Thames River.
Book of Loss takes the form of a 'search party for missing bodies'. In small groups, participants look for illustrations of lost glaciers, secretly drawn on the windows and walls of a gallery, using UV torches. Whenever someone discovers a hidden glacier, a bell is rung for convening the participants. The artist then reads a passage about that glacier from the ‘Book of Loss’, prompting a discussion on the impact of its loss. The performance takes place at Tate Modern inside the Gathering Ground exhibition. Its setting is a room with a large window overlooking the Thames and the City, two entities entwined in the realities of climate change.
