Within Cells Interlinked

What if dreams were not just chaotic tumblings of thought, but a 2.0 version of ourselves - intricately connecting the dots and coming up with solutions by tapping into our deep personal archives - that otherwise remain inaccessible in waking life?

Welcome to Within Cells Interlinked - a transmedia performance that invites audiences into an intricate world of dreams, corporate surveillance and gameplay, exploring the intersection of imagination and reality.

Four performers interact across different realities: two dreamers deeply immersed in their dream worlds: One finds himself at his own wedding, marrying a complete stranger and travelling backwards through time; while the other finds herself on vacation where she encounters a lost toddler who changes gender and runs on battery; And two dream analysts who intervene in the citizens’ night time reveries, attempting to change them in order to affect real-life events.

For Within Cells Interlinked we collaborate with the Premonitions Agency, a specufictional government entity whose task is to collect, capture and analyze citizens’ dreams and intervene into them to affect possible real-life events. The performance is based on real nighttime dreams, donated by the artistic team and several other dreamers.

The performance playfully explores the questions of free will and agency, sentience and imagination amidst the next wave of digitalization and globalization. Overlapping dream and gameplay, science and mysticism, it inquires how–when these other logics are projected onto the everyday–this can allow for other perceptions and imaginaries to emerge. TILT also hosts the Premonitions Agency Dream Collecting and Analysis sessions where the audience can contribute their dreams to this research.

Within Cells Interlinked is the first performance in the performative-cinematic multiverse titled LUNARIS, a fictional shared world - embedded in the ‘real’ world – which Andrea Božić and Julia Willms are developing the coming years in collaboration with the Premonitions Agency. LUNARIS will host a constellation of interlinked works: performances, audio-visual installations and related smaller works across performance and visual art.