MONICA TOLIA
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Synchronic (in)visibility

2017
​Performance, 25 min
Single channel live broadcast with multi-camera VJ-ing

​Synchronic (in)visibility is a work that operates as a disembodied experience of performance, since the performer is not physically present in the exhibition space before the audience. The audience is instead viewing the performance on a large screen projection, while the performer is at an undisclosed location performing alone.

The performance is live-feed broadcast on the internet in realtime, so anyone, anywhere could access the performance. In the undisclosed space (the broadcast room), there are 3 surveillance cameras at different angles set up, while the broadcast source runs an automated VJ programme that layers the camera angles at intervals, enhancing the linear abstraction of the high-visibility lines on the performers’ costume.

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Exhibitions:

​​11.05.2017:  Live performance at Enclave Lab for 'We're All Involved In This Mess' (London). Live-stream broadcast in Buster Mantis and Job Centre, Deptford.
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​15.06.2017:  Second iteration. Disembodied performance. Live VJ broadcast on Ustream.
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​Screened live in the 'No Future' exhibition at Out of the Brew Gallery as apart of the 'Against the Slow Cancellation of the Future' Conference from the Centre for Cultural Studies (CCS) at Goldsmiths, University of London











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Credits:
Max MSP VJ programme written by Peter Mackenzie
Sound design by James Philip Brown

Performed by Monica Tolia​


​​©  2026  Monica Tolia

  • 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