Lunaris: Spaceship City by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms

What if imagination could be materialised, if one’s inner life could be lifted from one mind and transplanted into another? Which experiences would we choose to pass on?

Public Communiqué №7

TILT and the Premonitions Agency are pleased to announce the opening of a new operational laboratory at Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam.

Field Agents will be working on site, extracting, embodying and materialising dreams in real time and transplanting them into Sleepers aboard the Lunaris spaceship, a vessel travelling endlessly through the cosmos, populated by inhabitants who sleep their entire lives, generation after generation. The dreams we transmit provide the only form of life they know.

The transplantation process is ongoing. On 30 September and 1 October, the Frascati theatre-lab is a portal quantum-linked with Lunaris spaceship and opens its doors to the public - an opportunity to witness the Agents at work.

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For Lunaris: Spaceship City, TILT continues its collaboration with the Premonitions Agency, the specufictional organisation that collects citizens' dreams and intervenes in them to influence waking reality. Agents work live on stage, extracting, embodying, materialising and transplanting real dreams into Sleepers aboard Lunaris, who accept, modify or reject them. We work with real dreams collected from people of various backgrounds, treating them as cultural archives where personal, social, political and philosophical tensions emerge in dream-logic form; and where identities, bodies, spacetime and narrative are fluid, multiple and constantly renegotiated.

Through performance, layered projections, filmed material and soundscape, the stage becomes a labyrinthine, painterly environment where physical, virtual and imaginary spaces constantly rearrange each other.

The task is absurd and impossible. The discrepancy between an original dream and its embodied approximation is where the work finds its humor, its poignancy and its questions about identity, sentience and what we choose to pass on.

Lunaris: Spaceship City is part of LUNARIS, a performative-cinematic multiverse developed by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT in collaboration with the Premonitions Agency. The LUNARIS world encompasses performances, installations and a growing dream archive, exploring the intersections of spectatorship, imagination and digital transformation, and the questions of free will, agency and sentience within that arise with it.

Drawing from dream logic, gameplay and quantum theory, LUNARIS explores how, when these other logics are transposed and projected onto the everyday, other perceptions and imaginaries can emerge.