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The Machine of Horizontal Dreams
The Machine of Horizontal Dreams
The Machine of Horizontal Dreams
Trailer by Joe Tutt
Trailer by Joe Tutt
Trailer by Joe Tutt
The Machine of Horizontal Dreams is a research-based artistic project that challenges Western concepts of linear progress and success, focusing on cyclical, relational, and pleasurable experiences. The project will come to life as an immersive touring performance installation that reimagines progress through collective dreaming, speculative imagination, and embodied practice; integrating choreography, sound, light design, video and immersive technologies. The artistic elements of the work will explore the possibilities of collective progress, focusing on pleasure as a political tool for social transformation.
The Machine of Horizontal Dreams is a research-based artistic project that challenges Western concepts of linear progress and success, focusing on cyclical, relational, and pleasurable experiences. The project will come to life as an immersive touring performance installation that reimagines progress through collective dreaming, speculative imagination, and embodied practice; integrating choreography, sound, light design, video and immersive technologies. The artistic elements of the work will explore the possibilities of collective progress, focusing on pleasure as a political tool for social transformation.
The Machine of Horizontal Dreams is a research-based artistic project that challenges Western concepts of linear progress and success, focusing on cyclical, relational, and pleasurable experiences. The project will come to life as an immersive touring performance installation that reimagines progress through collective dreaming, speculative imagination, and embodied practice; integrating choreography, sound, light design, video and immersive technologies. The artistic elements of the work will explore the possibilities of collective progress, focusing on pleasure as a political tool for social transformation.
‘To conceive time in a non-linear way is at once a great gift and a great responsibility. The responsibility is that our individual actions matter powerfully, radiating out across relationships and affecting all that might be thought of in a linear sense as past, present and future.’
(Kwaymullina, A. (2014). The interrogation of Ashala Wolf. Candlewick Press. Berndt, R. M., & Berndt, C. H. (1994).
‘To conceive time in a non-linear way is at once a great gift and a great responsibility. The responsibility is that our individual actions matter powerfully, radiating out across relationships and affecting all that might be thought of in a linear sense as past, present and future.’
(Kwaymullina, A. (2014). The interrogation of Ashala Wolf. Candlewick Press. Berndt, R. M., & Berndt, C. H. (1994).
‘To conceive time in a non-linear way is at once a great gift and a great responsibility. The responsibility is that our individual actions matter powerfully, radiating out across relationships and affecting all that might be thought of in a linear sense as past, present and future.’
(Kwaymullina, A. (2014). The interrogation of Ashala Wolf. Candlewick Press. Berndt, R. M., & Berndt, C. H. (1994).
Through interdisciplinary frameworks ranging from Ecofeminism and Post-humanism to the works of social change theorists such as Adrienne Maree Brown, Ana Vujanović and Luciana Parisi, the project looks at progress as emergent, relational, and interconnected. These perspectives inform the choreographic and collaborative processes, enabling a collective intelligence that shapes each iteration of the performance. The Machine of Horizontal Dreams will manifest in different forms through time: workshops with community members and audiences, a theoretical thesis and a performance installation. The public presentation will be a unique multidimensional performance installation that includes interactive technology, video art, live sound and light, performed in a circular installation to remove any hierarchical structure, inviting audience participation which will also shape and shift the space. The work will be produced in collaboration with a group of internationally acclaimed and emerging dance artists, sound and light artists, technologists and mentors in the academic fields; it will invite the local community members to participate in the creation process and perform on stage. The Machine of Horizontal Dreams performance installation will premiere at Sadler’s Wells East in October 2025 opening season at the Olympic Park. The piece will be available for touring across the UK and internationally thereafter.