Louise, for solo performer and Sonic Fabric garment, is a multimedia collaboration directed and performed by Jenna Lyle. Designer Scarlet Le, collaboratively with Lyle, has made a garment using interdisciplinary artist Alyce Santoro's Sonic Fabric (cassette tape woven with polyester thread). With a variety of implements, Lyle performs a 3-part work, named for the late Abstract Expressionist sculptor Louise Nevelson, exploring the sound of sculptural movement and the sonic properties of textile. Much like the installation work of its namesake, Louise is an expression of intimacy and autobiography, dithering between the tiny and the monumental in scale.
Premiered at Resonant Bodies Festival, Chicago. Photo by Marc Perlish