Folding Field
Performative Wearable Installation | 2025

Folding Field is a performative wearable system that explores how movement, signal, and material structures shape perceptual experience through responsive light and sound.

The work was developed during the FUNKEN × MAIN Residency at Technische Universität Chemnitz in collaboration with scientists and physicists. It engages with laboratory research on electromagnetic environments and adaptive material structures.

Electromagnetic field data was recorded in laboratory conditions and used as the basis for the sound composition. This soundscape activates audio-reactive LED structures embedded in the wearable, translating scientific signals into spatial sound and dynamic light behaviour.

The textile structure is constructed through experimental folding principles inspired by origami geometries and Smartlet architectures in nano-robotics research. Layered translucent materials translate microscopic structural logics into a body-scale configuration.

In performance, movement, signal, and light interact in real time. The wearable operates as a responsive system in which gestures continuously shape audiovisual behaviour. The work generates shifting perceptual conditions instead of a fixed visual form, unfolding across installation and live performance contexts.

Year: 2025
Medium: Performative wearable installation; responsive light, sound, and movement
Duration: Variable (performance-based)
Dimensions: Wearable / Performative

Photos: Fabian Thueroff