Museum of Dreams

Museum of Dreams is a fever dream of fantasy, where the line between real-time and dreamtime become so blurred that it is no longer clear what is real and what isn’t. Museum of Dreams takes the form of a 6-hour performance installation that investigates the feverish affair of sleeping and questions our perception of waking using dance, circus and theater in a landscape of original music, industrial lighting and sculptural costumes.

Countless psychologists, theorists, theologians, writers, neurologists and great thinkers have investigated the science and meaning of dreaming. What exactly happens in the brain and body while we sleep – and what do the dreams we experience mean to our waking lives? How certain can we really be that what we dream is merely a figment of our imagination and how convinced are we that our walking, interacting daily lives are reality? Museum of Dreams draws on sources as diverse as studies of sleeping disorders, the writings of Baudrillard, court cases of murders committed while sleepwalking and original text/choreography to create a living museum of the feverish affair of sleeping.

MUSEUM OF DREAMS was created by Peter S Petralia, Mandy Caughey, Carlton Ward, Stacey Carlson, Olga Naiman/Aparat, Betsy Strong, Max Giteck Duykers, Nicole Jung and Rebecca MK Makus with an AREA Award fromchashama and through a five-month residency at the Ontological Hysteric Theater called Outside/Input.