A new transmedia performance by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT
A time-traveling groomsmen at a bombed wedding, a girl in an otherworldly environment seemingly pregnant with a fish, a toddler that changes gender and runs on battery, dream-analysts intervening in citizens’ nighttime reveries in an attempt to affect future events, scientists performing a quantum slit experiment and mystical dancers.
Welcome to Within Cells Interlinked – a transmedia phantasmagoria labyrinth interconnecting multiple worlds with the logic of dreams, corporate surveillance and gameplay. Especially for Within Cells Interlinked, TILT collaborates with the Premonitions Agency whose aim is to collect, capture and analyse citizens’ dreams and intervene into them to affect possible futures. In Within Cells Interlinked, several protagonists find themselves performing the roles of multiple selves across different realities – dreamers caught up in their dream worlds, Premonitions Agency employees working for its various departments – who are initially not aware of each other but whose actions impact each others’ and also their own in return. They start intervening in each others’ realities and interacting across worlds looking for clues and connections between them and exploring their role and agency within it. They take the audience on a journey across these textures of media realities, creating the world(s) – changing and interlinking them – as they discover it. All the different worlds of the dreams and the agency departments co-exist on stage simultaneously in a seamless and intertwined labyrinth of physical, virtual and imaginary spaces that incorporate the whole theatre hall and bring outside spaces and times into it.
The performance playfully explores the questions of free will and agency, sentience and imagination amidst the next wave of digitalization and globalization. Overlapping dream and gameplay, science and mysticism, it explores how – when these other logics are transposed and projected onto the everyday – this can allow for other perceptions and imaginaries to emerge. Within Cells Interlinked is based on real night-night time dreams donated by the artistic team and various other dreamers. As part of the collaboration with the Premonitions Agency, TILT are hosting the Premonitions Agency Dream Collecting and Analysis sessions where the audience can contribute their dreams to this research.
Review
With Within Cells Interlinked was reviewed by Guna Miroula on TheaterKrant under the title: “Collective Dream Analysis with the Possibility of Intervention”. Read the full review here.
Long Table Talk
TILT is taking part in the Long Table Talk Speculative Storytelling on May 25 from 18:15 to 19:15 in the Stadsschouwburg.
