FOAM: The Listening Body
A one-on-one performance inviting the audience to engage through sight, touch, and listening, exploring the listener's body and its role in contemporary society. Inspired by the metaphor of living as bubbles in foam—touching yet separated by external membranes—the project reimagines the performer's costume as a hidden stage.
Constructed with memory foam and dancer-grade lycra, the costume becomes an organic, bodily extension. It invites closeness while maintaining boundaries, creating a space for interaction and introspection. Audiences are encouraged to embrace the ambiguity of connection: to reach, hug, sink, or stretch, revealing an interplay of isolation and intrusion.
Presented alongside We Are All Ears at the KABK 2018 Graduation Festival, the installation was later re-staged at Here We Live and Now at Korzo Theater, The Hague.
Credits
Project, Drawings & Material Research: Greta Desirèe Facchinato.
Costume Design: collaboration with Silvia Sandri.
Curtain Design: collaboration with Josephine Kemp.
Installation Design: collaboration with Made by Merlin.
Performance Assistant: Raquel Sánchez Galvez.
Photography: Ellen Daniels
With this work, Greta Desirèe Facchinato won the Master Artistic Research Award 2018.
Year
2018