The Dream House World (2021-2023)

The Dream House World is a project that started from the exhibition Rescue dummies shown in Kiev in 2021 for the Future Generation Art Prize in Pinchuk ArtCentre and continued in series of works: Inside The Dream House (2022), Mushroom Brain (2022) both shown at Fondation Fiminco in Paris in 2022, and 4Rooms (2023) a video installation shown at Tono Festival for performance, dance and video art in Mexico City, in Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City.

Excerpts from interviews with performing participants of the video part of the project, present in the sound installation Mushroom Brain (2022) :

– What is the Dream House?

The Dream House is a space where I’m not concerned whether I’m inside or outside or if there is even an outside. I think it’s not completely alone. The Dream House is where you’re finally there and you realise like, there’s a contentment with the fact that It doesn’t have this or that, but it’s an IT. It’s satisfying enough of the needs. If it is a program, all these different rooms, elevators.. then it was all about working within the architecture in order to undergo this transformative kind of like anthropomorphic state and process. And I don’t really know to what end it is, so I can’t say that, but I don’t really need to. I just can feel it’s kind of like a faith, it is a faith based thing.

– Anders

 

It’s probably like a floating square. Like in a virtual reality, and like the same space serves different purposes. But the shape of it is always very dry, like a simulation, almost. So there’s not really a lot of space. It’s just a lot of virtuality. But it’s like a cube. But like a cube in which you can like, upload and download… Maybe a lot of information.

– Rafael

 

There are circuits or veins to which we are connected to feed ourselves, and move around this world there. It is like a society that is governed by these these circuits in fact, this thing that is alive. Well, in fact, there it not necessarily a governing structure. There are those who watch us, but we don’t know too much about them, we don’t have any interactions with them, but we know they are there. It is also like a geode. And sometimes there are dark hallways. We reflect ourselves inside this geode, see other aspects of ourselves like in a twisted spherical mirror. To go from a place to another it’s always this system of ups and downs, ups and downs… Like the palpitations of a heart that experiences a shock or an appeasement.

Nico

It’s like a huge space where every day you have to go and work. And it feels like… a big project where you had to go every day and loose the reality for a bit. You have to go to work to make the system, the whole system of this Dream House to function. And by your work you are feeding the whole system. But it feels like the interactions with others are helping a lot to get through it…

– Masha

 

For me there are five spaces. Each space is four walls, a floor, a ceiling. Each space is more or less the same size. Between these spaces, there are rhizome like connections. In each link, there is an elevator. It’s a circuit of elevators in which the elevator you take can take you where you want because everything is connected in the circuit. And in fact, the five spaces, are not at all placed in a

logical way. So I imagine it’s really a maze. Whereas from outside it is a simple

building. It’s like a pyramid to me, a minimalist form from the outside and inside it’s almost like the human body with organs.

– Pierre-Clément

 

I thought it was a place in my head. So I invited friends. And they told me they were there. So maybe it’s not in my head but our heads. An emotional dimension. An architecture built out of 4 rooms, or maybe more, or one room,

then soft cables, corridors and elevators. The rooms make us produce and release the energy so that the system continues to function. The circuits running on emotional fuel. And the music is there to pull just the right strings, and parts of the body. And sometimes if I touch my hand maybe it’s not mine but someone else’s and it seems like there is no difference. You fuse and detach and it’s painful. There is no way in our out, we are just there – dreaming, and the Dream House exists because we keep dreaming the dream someone else has put in our heads. –

– Agata