In Headed South , the body is suspended by sand bags which have been pierced by a knife. As the sand drains from the bags the body sinks to the floor. This work, performed in Amsterdam, was the artist's metaphysical journey throught the centre of the earth to her home in Australia. But the artist doesn't endorse this reading exclusively. For her, the performances are cathartic and explore her own relationship with herself.
Narcissism is a recurring trope.
She presented her body as a nurturing vessel from which the seagulls fed. There is a certain horror in this image as the birds encroach on the body, reminiscent of Hitchcock's movie The Birds where things got out of control. Orr alludes to this type of hysteria in her re-enactment of the biblical story of the loaves and fish. Orr's explorations of her own fears and fantasies led her to address her own position as female subject in a male dominated world. Finely dressed and manicured, Orr appeared before her audience as the paradign of 1950s femininity.