Dreaming Awake Feb 25 2011

Embedded Performance Installation at Arclight Studios in Stockholm, Sweden as part of a Performance Art event, "Cabbage Music" produce by Louise Dahl-Lindvall

The video installation was tucked in the upstairs corner of this warehouse. Throughout the evening of performances I would start a conversation with select audience members following a script that would spur a conversation and lead to asking if they would like to go to the installation with me. The audience response would take the conversation into unexpected ideas.

The script:

Juliacks: "You are dreaming awake."

Audience members response.

Juliacks: "In dreams begin responsibility."

Audience member response.

Juliacks: "I saw you with hot angry tears comforted by someone I knew but you didn't."

Audience member response.

Juliacks: "It's time to wake up to those who you love."

Juliacks: Would you like to go to the installation with me up there? (I point to it/nod in its direction)

This video features performance art from this evening including: Gustaf Londré, Lisa Gideonsson, Calle Holck, Hiroko Tsuchimoto, and Naun Rodrigo Juarez Gonzalez. Video documentation taken by Tamara Henderson.

Footage from this performance appeared in Swell at the Culture Project's Women Center Stage Project.