MONICA TOLIA

flora/fauna/machina

2019
Pond, live plants & grow-light installation;
Generative projections; ​Loop station;
Performance, 45 min

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*Project supported by Chalton Gallery & Art Night London

For Art Night 2019, we presented “Flora/Fauna/Machina”, a 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. The locale of the pond was built from urban construction waste and its inhabitants (performers) dressed in athleisure-wear made of building netting. The performance activated the space through dance, play & collective singing.

PRESS RELEASE
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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)


​​©  2022  Monica Tolia

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