Within Cells Interlinked is a transmedia performance blending dreams, corporate surveillance, and gameplay to explore the intersection of imagination and reality.
What if dreams are more than just hyper-real 3D experiences? What if they are encoded messages—signals we can decode to shape our waking lives? And what if changing our dreams could transform real-life events themselves?
Welcome to Within Cells Interlinked developed in collaboration with the Premonitions Agency, a specu-fictional government funded entity whose task is to collect and analyze citizens’ dreams—and intervene in them to affect real-world events.
The performance follows two of the agency’s investigators as they analyze and interfere in the dreams of two dreamers: A man who finds himself marrying a complete stranger in front of his entire family while traveling backward in time and; A woman chosen by a toddler as their parent—only to discover the child changes gender and runs on battery. Merging physical, virtual, and imaginary spaces, the piece plays at the boundaries of fiction and reality, intertwining dream logic, quantum mechanics, and bureaucratic surveillance to examine how dreams co-construct our waking lives.
The performance is based on real nighttime dreams, donated by the artistic team and several other dreamers.
The performance playfully explores the questions of free will and agency, sentience and imagination amidst the next wave of digitalization and globalization. By integrating dream logic and gameplay strategies, cosmology, quantum physics and mysticism, we explore how alternative perceptions and imaginaries can emerge when these logics are projected onto everyday life.
Within Cells Interlinked is the first performance in the performative-cinematic multiverse titled LUNARIS, a fictional shared world - embedded in the ‘real’ world – which TILT is developing the coming years in collaboration with the Premonitions Agency. LUNARIS hosts a constellation of interlinked works: performances, audio-visual installations and related smaller works across performance and visual art by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms and Billy Mullaney.
Concept, choreography, space, video and audio-visual design, direction: Andrea Božić and Julia Willms
Concept and performance development in collaboration with: Billy Mullaney
Performers: Veronika Abdul-Visocka, Andrea Božić, Billy Mullaney, Julia Willms
Light design: Pablo Fontdevila
Voice: Richard Hinam, Fiona Whelan
Production: Lena Meijer
Technique: Simchah Hoed and Pablo Fontdevila
Publicity: Hans Klijn
Video assistant: Christianna Tsigkou
Photo's: Thomas Lenden
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