Ghost in the Machine is a site-responsive performance developed by Jill Martin Boualaxai, exploring memory, transformation, and industrial folklore through movement, drawing, and sculptural installation.
The piece blends physical theatre, dance, live drumming, visual art, and costume, evolving over time into performance drawings and sculptural traces that blur the boundaries between ritual, history, and the factory’s own mythology. It will be performed by Jill Martin Boualaxai, Alma Sua Lindenhovius, Fiona Oliver-Larkin, Elvey Anna Stedman, and the Sativa Drummers.
Ghost in the Machine will run each evening of the festival – check the timings on the night.
Ghost in the Machine is one of our 2025 Creative Collaborations, newly commissioned interdisciplinary projects waiting to be encountered by visitors as they explore The Paper Factory’s labyrinths. Visionaries from radically different disciplines – from electronic musicians and installation artists to contemporary dancers and theatrical innovators – have been challenged to create something that could only exist in this distinct moment and place.
