THEATRE — ART — LANDSCAPE
Words Do Move
Lobby Installation Design for Words Do Move at The Crane Theatre
Sandbox Theatre, MN, Nov 2018
Directors Matthew Glover, Heather Stone
Installation Design Nicole DelPizzo
We speak, we stay silent. We fight, we hide. We listen, we shut down.
Words Do Move was a devised theatre performance surrounding the topic of human connection and language’s power to divide and connect. I was given an open ended prompt of creating an installation for the theater’s lobby based on the initial premise of the show.
My research continually steered me toward the word “movement” in relation to the human body and to bodies moving together or alone, and I found myself intrigued by the image of people reaching out to each other. I knew Sandbox Theatre especially for their interest in dance- like movement and the way they associated spoken word with abstract movement.
I became interested in depicting suspended bodies reaching out to each other, and shortly after, I chose wire sculpture as my medium because of its ability to evoke contradicting words related to the human spirit: fragility / strength / malleability / translucency / movement / static / free / confined
The wire figures are accompanied by hanging slips of paper which audience members are prompted to fill out based on a line from the show: “It will only take a moment to tell you how I feel"…” The hanging slips create an atmosphere of words which the two wire figure figures reach through.