flora/fauna/machina
2019
Pond, live plants & grow-light installation; Generative projections; Loop station; Performance, 45 min *Project supported by Chalton Gallery & Art Night London For Art Night 2019, we presented “Flora/Fauna/Machina”, a biohybrid sculpture garden installation where the boundaries between human, plant-life and technology blurred into a sensorial ecosystem. Referencing the visual language of the 19th c. Romantic tableau vivant - scenes of pleasure, collectivity & aloneness - the performance sets up a contemporary urban bacchanal scene where the ambient presence of technology becomes a force for driving varying degrees of connection to other people and nature. The locale of the pond built from urban construction waste and its inhabitants (performers) dressed in athleisure-wear made of building netting, reveal an outsider subjectivity and space that exists on the underside of gentrification, against images of eco-luxury and opulence circulated by current capitalist lifestyle trends. https://2019.artnight.london/artist/chalton-gallery/ Credits: Performed by Marlen Pflueger, Monica Tolia & Moses Ward Choreography by Monica Tolia & Marlen Pflueger Sound composition by Monica Tolia Exhibitions/events: 22 June 2019: Art Night, Chalton Gallery (London) 11 January 2019: Contingent Behaviours, Gossamer Fog Gallery (London) |
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