FOAM: The Listening Body
(2018)
FOAM: The Listening Body is 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.
Credits:
Project, Drawings & Material Research: Greta Desirèe Facchinato
Costume Design made in collaboration with Silvia Sandri
Performance Assistant during KABK Graduation Festival: Raquel Sánchez Galvez
Curtains made in collaboration with Josephine Kemp
Installation Structure made in collaboration with Made by Merlin
Photography by Ellen Daniels