DREAMS

2024, lecture performance: loop station, microphone, laptop, speakers, approx. 20 minutes
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DREAMS is a voice performance. Through live looping, voice folds back on voice, melody returns as echo, gesture accumulates into choreography. Repetition here is not return. It is a mirror.

The performance draws on Gaston Bachelard's theory of water as a medium of doubling: the dreamer who gazes into the water does not find themselves as they are, but as they imagine themselves to be. "I am the way I dream myself," writes Bachelard. This logic of narcissistic doubling, simultaneously self-production and self-dissolution, becomes the structural principle of the work. DREAMS draws on seven sources: Edgar Allan Poe, Dua Lipa, Destiny's Child, Billy Ocean, Pocahontas, Botticelli, and Caravaggio. They are met by seven figures — one for each, like a reflection:

 

The Sirens. The River. The Witch. The Sea. The Raven. The Water. The Dream.

 

DREAMS replays them, stages them, samples them, inhabits them, consumes them, and in doing so, subtly alters them. Like water, the performance doubles. Like water, it drifts.

​Film Stills: HEAVY WATER (floated through her winters and summers), 2024, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (GER), © Rainer Goehringer; Screenshots in this order second screenshot Dua Lipa's "Houdini", fourth screenshot Billy Ocean's " Caribbean Queen" and sixth screenshot Destiny's Child "Say my name"