Dreamwork.live

Part of the exhibition Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities. Transmissions from Within the Ludic Mind

NEST by Támas Páll is a 2 channel video installation included in the current exhibiton Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities. Transmissions from Within the Ludic Mind at AIL, together with this live performance, Támas Páll explores mediated worldmaking through a dispersed story of contemporary rituals.
The installation is a manifestation of a research project of the same name, that probed questions of artificiality and sense-making in relation to computation. In this iteration of NEST, the project is presented as a film set of a dreamwork performance, where an alter-ego of a performer meets a film producer in a role-play scenario, where they construct a common dream through digital and ancient cross-reality technologies. Dreamwork as a film and performance series strings together dreamwork rituals envisioned and role-played through alter-egos and altered-states of consciousness.

Tamás Páll and Nicole Clore, the characters of the first chapter of Dreamwork, will augment the spatio-temporal reality of the AIL through a guided tour of gamification in the exhibition. The performance invites the audience to participate in a dreamwork ritual that goes beyond discussion, it reaches towards hallucination and enfleshing otherworlds, while being grounded in the material reality of the here and now.

Duration: 40 min

Concept by: Tamás Páll
Performers: Csaba Molnár as Nicole Clore, Tamás Páll
Supported by: Angewandte Programme for Inter- and Transdisciplinary Projects in Art and Research (INTRA)