Folded – Page 1

Folded – Page One is a live audio visual stage performance co produced by SDNA (UK) and Ticonzero (Italy).

Folded – Page One is the first chapter of a complex artistic research which aims to investigate the interaction of various live media and the integration of different artistic languages: audio visual, graphics, sculpture, fashion, physical performance and theatrical process.

The performance is divided into 8 parts (the maximum number of times paper can be folded), exploring the physical and metaphysical properties and potentials of paper.

Paper is the starting point for all of the artists. The costume, designed by Cabinet of Curiosity using origami techniques, is made out of paper, all of the visuals are filmed events or animations derived from paper and Alessandro’s music is composed using sounds of paper.

The performer, Nina Fog, plays a creature born from paper who constantly transforms herself, reinventing her corporeality.

With Folded I am exploring the sensations of being written upon (by sound, image, costume, space); being invented and- at the same time – being erased. The constant cycle of living and dying makes me only a momentary creature in a fragment of time – I aim to be in the pure of state of existing from moment to moment.
– Nina Fog, dancer

The music and video imagery are created and processed by the artists in real time. The live execution of both video and sound introduces variables into the performance, which is therefore not a fixed or predetermined sequence, but one that remains open to new relational possibilities.

Co-production SDNA (UK) + TiconZero (Italia)
Ideation and original music Alessandro Olla
Live video Valentina Floris, Ben Foot
Dance Nina Fog
Costums Cabinet of Curiosity
Associate Graphic Artists Chris Singer and Nazir Tabuli