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Dream Archive: Live Collection

Andrea Božić & Julia Willms / TILT i.s.m. de Premonitions Agency
Tue 18 Feb ’25 - Thu 20 Feb ’25
Have you ever wondered about the untapped potential of your dreams?
Tue 18 Feb ’25
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Thu 20 Feb ’25

Welcome to the Dream Archive: Live Collection – public dream collecting sessions. This government agency initiative aims to collect citizens' dreams and analyze them to predict possible future scenarios and affect outside events. Would you like to donate your dream to the Dream Archive?

Dream Archive: Live Collection seeks to explore the potential of dreams in predicting future scenarios and affecting outside events. 

The new work of TILT is a performative session in the form of a participatory dream-collecting, mapping, analysis and interrogation session. Several Agents facilitate the session to collect the volunteers' dreams through a specially designed set of questions and instructions, not only telling but also embodying the dream in the space, visualising it, navigating through the dream and interrogating the dreamer to separate the dream image from the dreamers subjectivity. The session is open to all. You can decide to actively participate in the session or only observe it. You can donate a dream privately during the session or choose to sign up to be the Dreamer in a future live collection session.

The sessions are part of the performative cinematic multiverse titled LUNARIS, a fictional shared world - embedded in the ‘real’ world – developed by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT in collaboration with the Premonitions Agency in the coming years. LUNARIS will hosts constellation of interlinked works: performances, audio-visual installations and related smaller works across performance and visual art.

Dream Archive: Live Collection aspires to both problematise the trends of collecting user data under disguise of personal development, while at the same time also offering an intriguing and in-depth way of embodying, re-visiting and engaging with one’s dream reality playfully.

  • Duration: 60 á 90 mins.
  • Language: English

Credits

concept, audio-visual design, direction Andrea Božić en Julia Willms concept and performance development in collaboration with Billy Mullaney performers Andrea Božić, Billy Mullaney en Julia Willms light and technique Niels Runderkamp publicity Hans Klijn produced by TILT in collaboration with Premonitions Agency within the framework of the performance Within Cells Interlinked made possible by the financial contribution of the Dutch Performing Arts Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Art, BNG Fund, Tijl Fund, Stadsdeel Oost Amsterdam research supported by DAS Theatre and iDLab / ATD

About the makers

TILT is an Amsterdam-based in-disciplinary arts platform with a focus on the creation and dissemination of performance and visual arts works by choreographer and artist Andrea Božić and visual artist and performance maker Julia Willms, and associate artist - theatre and performance artist Billy Mullaney. TILT also engages in the development of discourse, workshops, educational and curatorial activities departing from artistic practice and theory.

Andrea and Julia have collaborated since 2003 making in-disciplinary works that re-organize space, attention and perception, exploring how spectatorship, imagination and spectacle are intertwined, embodied and felt in the eras of globalism and digitalisation. They work with the larger space and the visitor's presence as part of the work, combining dream logic and gameplay, cosmology, quantum physics, and mysticism to make playful performances and audio-visual installations often in collaboration with the weather and night sky. Recent works include performances Within Cells Interlinked, How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) and PoroCity, audio-visual installations Looking-Glass House, Civil Twilight, The Cube and Zandloper (Hourglass).

They have presented their work across the performing art and visual art in the Netherlands and internationally, collaborating with partners such as Frascati, SPRING, Oerol, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Centre Pompidou Metz, Museum Sinclair House, Reina Sofia Museum, among many others.