MONICA TOLIA
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Liquid dreams

2022
Performance set (dance + live sound, moving image projection of sci-fi scenes & CG simulations of water), 20 min

Performed for Décalé 6 @ Space 289, London (June 2022)
Organised by Chooc Ly Tan & Anne Duffau


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Simulation 986,589…

I dreamt I drifted into waters so deep 
without consequences.  
That my body wouldn’t fail
before reaching the bottom.
That I wouldn’t short out… 
of energy. 
of breath. 

To experience the freedom
of a bodiless mass. 
Of pretending I too could be bodiless 
& all that comes 
with it.

I, too,
dream…







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Picture
Image Credit: Julian Konuk
Monica Tolia · Liquid Dreams (excerpt)


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  • ABOUT
    • Bio & Contact
    • CV
  • PROJECTS
    • De-presencing
    • a snake in the house means the family will never want
    • Sound Perceivers
    • FU Salon
    • Liquid Dreams
    • HAVE YOU EATEN YET? >
      • LUNAR LATE: Year of the Queer Rabbit
      • NIAN is here! 年到了
      • Lunar New Year Festival 2022
      • Deptford X Festival 2021: Have you eaten yet?
      • ABOUT 你吃了吗
    • How to be together again - Residency
    • Flora / Fauna / Machina >
      • Chalton Gallery for Art Night (June 2019)
      • Gossamer Fog (January 2019)
    • Technologies of Lived Abstraction: FUTURE PRESENT >
      • FUTURE PRESENT 2
      • FUTURE PRESENT 1
    • BioSonics
    • Synchronic (In)visibility
  • SOUNDS