flora/fauna/machina

2019
Pond, live plants & grow-light installation;
Generative projections; ​Loop station;
Performance, 45 min
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​Performed for Art Night 2019 at Chalton Gallery (London)
Curated by Javier Calderon, Chalton Gallery

Flora/Fauna/Machina is a moving sculpture garden where the boundaries between human, plant-life and technology are 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 driven by the materials of urbanisation. The locale of the pond installation contains within it materials, bodies and matter that move and permeate through physical and virtual space - built from urban construction waste with a looming technological apparatus dancing on the water generated by data, and its performers clad in scaffolding netting stylised into athleisure-wear, resting among domesticated and commodified plants of the tropics.

​The performance activates the space through dance, play & collective singing.
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PRESS RELEASE
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

​*Project supported by Chalton Gallery & Art Night London