2m

2020
​Performance in collaboration with Moses Ward

This performance is an effort to navigate to our sudden separation, our reality of social distancing & the problematisation of touch because of the pandemic. As well, reimagining our visibility as POC & performing artists whose practices rely on the live moment & social encounter.

Filmed separately under the rules of distancing & no-contact in Fordham Park -- and later rewoven using digital means -- in this work we look at creating layers of contact & haptic connection while performing in separate temporalities.

***Warning: this video contains stroboscopic effects throughout. Those with photosensitivity please be advised.

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Credits
Performance & choreography:  Monica Tolia & Moses Ward
Filming:  Phoenix Tanner
Editing:  Monica Tolia
Sound composition:  Moses Ward