Paper Nautilus Moving Screen & Object Show is a mobile puppet theatre designed for itinerant and spontaneous public performances on the streets of Buffalo, NY. The show employs puppets and masks, performing objects, live theatre, and various media—from shadowplay to digital projection—to tell the story of The WASH Project, an emerging space for art and culture on Buffalo’s West Side.

The performance engages local spaces and figures with their own stories, abstracted and miniaturized through object performance. In doing so it acts alternately as a mirror, time capsule, and, perhaps, oracle, reflecting and documenting both process and progress, while questioning issues of use and disuse, the reclamation of space, and the unique and sometimes fleeting relationships that comprise community.