border
Concept and artistic direction: Silvia Morandi
Dress design: Krystian Filip
Live performance: Silvia Morandi
Artistic advisoring: Michele Fucich
Assistance: Laura Pan
Ortstermin 22 Art Festival / Galerie du Nord Berlin, Stadtschloss Moabit
iIn Kollaboration with SCOPE Berlin, Hiddenrooms and Errante (Italy)
The performances Charta and Border give new momentumto Morandi’s research on white paper and introduce acollaboration with the Polish dress designer Krystian Filip. In Charta, the paper dress designed by Filip becomes a contact element between body, air, and the architecture of a metallic outdoor staircase. Conceived as a multi-layered confluence of membranes rather than a real dress, this work opens the relationship between performer and paper to the outside world. The cavities and the sturdy parapets of the stairwell are resonating bodies for new interactions, sudden tensions and states of transition. The body is now exposed through the paper and beyond, but the solidity of the material, together with its lightness and transparency, still remainsan epicenter—a kind of light diffuser—of the whole event. In Border, the interaction of the performer and the same dress is transported to the interior of an old barracks. The action takes place between time-worn walls and a glass barrier that separates the building from the outdoors. Spectators follow the artist first from outside and then from inside, sometimes experiencing her presence through glass reflections and sometimes directly. The performer sways in a spacious hall, concealed at times by sturdy walls. Layers of the dress can be added and removed. The movements sometimes approach dance, but never break the link between human and paper.