the f/old as somatic/artistic practice: the fold as corporeal carrier bag

Bodily fold/folding is the substrata of our worldly engagement. Folds act like a porous carrier bag,* a transient repository of ‘things’ – continuously morphing between inner and outer worlds. Through en/unfolding, this pliable pouch reveals its generative capacity to transform into multiple materialities and become anew. At the same time, folds can become lodged and densified, nesting comfortably in the realm of habit, dampening their potential for creativity and renewal. We invite you to in explore the Janus face of the f/ol\\d: the generative fold that sources creativity, and the fold that lies dormant in the realm of habit. We will draw from our decade of practice-based poetics: the f/ol\\d as somatic/artistic practice.

*The concept of carrier bag comes from novelist Ursula Le Guin ‘s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction 1988. Le Guin notes, ‘words hold things.’ In our work, we take this ‘holding’ to be the internal and external bags and baggage we carry and our ability to transform from habit to new corporeal creation through a somatic/artistic journey.

Hybrid Option

For those choosing the onsite option: NiFe welcomes you to Vivid Oblivion, a spacious 1200 sq ft studio in Inman Square Cambridge, MA. Creative director NiFe has dedicated this space to strengthening intersectional, international, and intergenerational co-creative dialogue to catalyze change, deepen networks within ourselves, place, and each other in service of visioning new and better futures. NiFe welcomes all those who can attend in person. The studio opens new trajectories within body and landscape, through the wilds of interdisciplinary exchange, rigor and the untamed in performance, dance, somatics, design, and emerging spiritualities.

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Further Information

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