Dream Archive: Live Collection

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Dream Archive: Live Collection

A participatory performance of collecting dreams

Presented by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT in collaboration with the Premonitions Agency

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Have you ever wondered about the untapped potential of your dreams?

Dream Archive: Live Collection is a performative dream collecting session. This government-funded initiative aims to collect citizens' dreams and analyze them to predict possible future scenarios and affect outside events. We are excited to collaborate with the Premonitions Agency for it as part of the development of the LUNARIS world.

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Dream Archive: Live Collection is a participatory performance where several Agents collect the volunteers' dream, guiding them to embody it in the space, visualize it, navigate through it and interrogate the dreamer to separate the dream image from the dreamers subjectivity. While the structure of the session is set, each session is improvised and unique, based on the live input of the volunteers’ dream.

The session is open to all. You can decide to actively participate in the session or only observe it. 

The sessions are part of the performative cinematic multiverse titled LUNARIS, a fictional shared world - embedded in the ‘real’ world – Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT are developing in the coming years in collaboration with the Premonitions Agency. LUNARIS hosts a 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.

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Call for Dreamers

Would you like to donate your dream to the Dream Archive?

Your dreams are a treasure trove of untapped creativity, and we are here to uncover their mysteries.

This is how it works:

1.     The session is open to all. We initiate the session by collecting the written dreams to add to the archive. If you do not have a dream to donate, you are still welcome to join the session.

2.     One Dreamer is selected from the previous sessions whose dream is treated in-depth in the session. The Dreamer is guided through a set of specially designed questions and instructions to recall, embody and describe their dream in as much detail as possible.

3. You can sign up to be the Dreamer in one of the future sessions.

4.     Each dream collection session is meticulously recorded and visual material is made preserving the essence of the dreamers’ nocturnal adventures. The collected material is stored securely within the Premonitions Agency's Dream Archive. Our team of experts will analyze your dreams to identify patterns, recurring themes, and outside events.

Dream Archive: Live Collection seeks to explore the potential of dreams in affecting real-life events. Your participation is crucial to our research and we assure you that your data will be handled with the utmost care and confidentiality. The dreams will contribute to the further development of the LUNARIS world – performances, installations and other artwork.Thank you for being part of this groundbreaking experiment.

 

 


Credits: Concept, audio-visual design, direction Andrea Božić and Julia Willms

Concept and performance development in collaboration with: Billy Mullaney

Performers: Agents: Andrea Božić, Billy Mullaney and Julia Willms and a Dreamer

Light and technique: Niels Runderkamp

Internship: Olesya Lakshtanova, Angela Stipić

Publicity: Hans Klijn

Image design: Julia Willms

Photo's: Andrea Božić, Sofie Knijff, Julia Willms

Photo's of the Dreamers: Peteris Viksna, Jetmir Idrizi, Eva LOU

Thanks to: Barbara Miše, Mariana Silva, Christianna Tsigkou

 

Tour:

8 November 2025, 19.00, Spectra | Salon, Marci Panis, Amsterdam followed by a conversation with Victoria Perez Royo about the Dreaming Communities

Dreamer: Victoria Perez Royo
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17 October 2025, 11.15 hrs, Society 5.0 Festival, Social Hub Amsterdam City, in collaboration with the Centre for Expertise Just City

Dreamer: Zahra Mohseni
Dream date: 7 June 2024
Dream title: Fur coat
Place of dreaming: Amsterdam, my room

 

18-20 February 2025, 20.00 hrs, FrascatiAmsterdam

Dreamers:

18 February 

Dreamer: Jana Jacuka
Dream date: Recurring, several times during 2021- 2023
Dream title: The coming back home dream
Place of dreaming: Riga, Latvia

‘I go into my bedroom and realise there’s another door in it. I open it and suddenly there’s many more rooms.’

19 February 

Dreamer: Fred Raposo
Dream date: Night of 25 to 26 August 2024
Dream title: First dream in the Netherlands
Place of dreaming: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

‘Her parents introduce me to all the guests with so much pride and honor that I start wondering: Am I just a guest?’

20 February 

Dreamer: Eva LOU
Dream date: 17 October 2024
Dream title: The full moon siege
Place of dreaming: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

‘Suddenly, several tall white men step into my room through the window, even though my room is on the second floor.’

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