MONICA TOLIA
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a mountain, a bundle, a spell


2021
Performance, 30 minutes
A mountain, a bundle, a spell is a collaborative score that tests out the affectionate narratives through food making gestures. 

Comprising a large dough mound for repetitive labour of love and rhythmic sounds, dumpling talismans with an adzuki beans spell, and a gift of instant noodle package accompanied with a hand-written letter, these elements are devised into this interactive performance for gentle and generous space making and healing moment for East and Southeast Asian diaspora in Deptford, London.

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Co-devised with Have you eaten yet? Collective, in collaboration with Songsoo Kim.
Presented at Deptford X Festival 2021.
Picture
​Migratory remnants of performance talismans dispersed by audience
​onto the surrounding high street.  Deptford, South London, 2021.

Image courtesy of Ian Gouldstone.


​​©  2026  Monica Tolia

  • ABOUT
  • RECENT
  • PROJECTS
    • De-presencing [text]
    • a snake in the house means the family will never want
    • Liquid Dreams
    • HAVE YOU EATEN YET? >
      • ABOUT 你吃了吗
      • LUNAR LATE: Year of the Queer Rabbit
      • NIAN is here! 年到了
      • FU Salon
      • Lunar New Year Festival 2022
      • a mountain, a bundle, a spell
      • Deptford X Festival 2021: Have you eaten yet?
    • 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
  • SOUNDS