Spectra | Salons at Marci Panis, Amsterdam

16 September 2023 at 19.00 – 23.00 hrs, Spectra | Salon: Erotic Fan Fiction, Dreams and Premonitions Agency

15 December 2023 at 19.00 – 23.00 hrs, Spectra | Salon: Apparati: Dream, Gameplay, Premonition, Theatre

10 May, 18.00 hrs, Spectra | Salon: Within Cells Interlinked - open rehearsal

At TILT | Studio, Marci Panis, Marcusstraat 52 | 1D, Amsterdam

Spectra | Salons are in-disciplinary art evenings across performance and visual art that explore the questions of spectatorship, imagination and spectacle and how they are intertwined, embodied and felt in the era of globalism and digitalisation. Hosted by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in the TILT studio and the Salon of Marci Panis, Amsterdam, the Spectra | Salons feature a series of in-progress sharing sessions, experiments and conversations which follow our and our guests current artistic research processes and questions.

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Spectra | Salon: Erotic Fan Fiction, Dreams and Premonitions Agency

Saturday, 16 September 2023 at 19.00 – 23.00 hrs

Programme:

The Premonitions Agency Dream Collecting Session (test version) by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms and Harry Potter and the Delicious Brunch (in-progress) by Billy Mullaney plus conversations and drinks.

The Premonitions Agency Dream Collecting Station (test version)

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

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

Welcome to the very first test version of The Premonitions Agency Dream Collecting Station. This experimental government agency initiative aims to collect citizens' dreams and analyze them to predict and affect real-life events and possible future scenarios. We are excited to collaborate with the Premonitions Agency as part of the research for our new performance Within Cells Interlinked.

How it works:

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

1.     Volunteer Participation: Participation is entirely voluntary.

2.     Public or (Semi) Private Sessions: You can decide whether you want your dream collection session to be public or (semi)private.

3.     Specially Designed Questions and Instructions: You will be guided through a set of specially designed questions and instructions to help recall, embody and describe your dream in as much detail as possible. This process aids in the accurate recording and interpretation of dreams.

4.     Session Recording and Drawings: Each dream collection session will be meticulously recorded and drawings will be made preserving the essence of your nocturnal adventures.

5.     Data Storage and Analysis: The dreams and drawings collected will be stored securely within the Premonitions Agency's archive. Our team of experts will analyze your dreams to identify patterns, recurring themes, and possible future scenarios.

The Premonitions Agency Dream Collecting Station seeks to explore the potential of dreams in predicting future scenarios. Your participation is crucial to our research and we assure you that your data will be handled with the utmost care and confidentiality. Thank you for being part of this groundbreaking experiment.

Harry Potter and the Delicious Brunch (in-progress)

by Billy Mullaney

Billy has recently been researching erotic Harry Potter fan fiction as the absolute lowest contemporary literary form.
He is curious about the communities that have sprung up around generating and sharing such texts, the mode of address with which they are written, and what might be "read" beyond the stories themselves. He is particularly interested in the use of fan fiction as personal fantasy fulfillment (using the protagonist as a stand-in for themselves and often having nothing to do with the source material), and how these stories can become indeed more legible as portraits of the author. Harry Potter and the Delicious Brunch is a short in-progress sketch exploring such a spectacle of self-indulgence, and which *might* develop into a performance in the future(!)

Spectra | Salon: Apparati: Dream, Gameplay, Premonition, Theatre

Friday, 15 December 2023 at 19.00 – 23.00 hrs

An evening where we explore the overlaps between dream, gameplay, theatre and performance, how they guide and inform us in our waking lives and what agency they lend us. With input and a conversation with guests: Mala Kline (choreographer, writer, certified practitioner and teacher of Saphire™ imagery and dream work) and Marijn Lems (theatre and game critic); and the first in-progress sharing of the Premonitions Bureau by Billy Mullaney and The Premonitions Agency Dream Movement Capturing Session (research sharing) by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms plus end of the year get together and drinks.

The Premonitions Bureau #1 (in-progress)
By Billy Mullaney

The very first issue! Weird tales and spooky stories ripped straight from the arcane files of the Premonitions Bureau itself! Intrigue! Betrayal! A pair of dream detectives flung beyond the reaches of time and space! Occult mystery and hair-raising suspense! Their first adventure! Will they save the day? At what cost??

(The Premonitions Bureau #1 is a narrative experiment towards a theatre/comic book hybrid)

The Premonitions Agency Dream Movement Capturing Session – Research sharing
Presented by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in collaboration with the Premonitions Agency.

Have you ever wondered about the untapped potential of your dreams?
Welcome to the very first test version of The Premonitions Agency Dream Capturing Session. This experimental government agency initiative aims to collect citizens' dreams and analyze them to predict and affect real-life events and possible future scenarios. We are excited to collaborate with the Premonitions Agency as part of the research for our new performance Within Cells Interlinked. In this Salon, we are sharing the first research of our dream movement capturing method.

Presentation on dream imagery by Mala Kline (choreographer, writer, certified practitioner and teacher of Saphire™ imagery and dream work)

Presentation on gaming by Marijn Lems (theatre and game critic)

A conversation with Mala Kline and Marijn Lems

Spectra | Salon: Within Cells Interlinked - open rehearsal

Friday, 10 May, 18.00-23.00 hrs

Join us for an evening of an in-progress sharing of fragments from Within Cells Interlinked, a new performance by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms plus conversations and drinks.

Within Cells Interlinked is a new transmedia performance interconnecting multiple worlds with the logic of dreams, corporate surveillance and gameplay. Several performers interact with several versions of themselves across different realities. A time-traveling groomsman at a bombed wedding, a toddler that changes gender and runs on battery and dream analysts intervening in citizens’ night time reveries in an attempt to affect future events. All these different worlds co-exist on stage simultaneously in a seamless and intertwined labyrinth of physical, virtual and imaginary spaces. The characters are initially not aware of each other but their actions impact each others’. They intervene in each others’ realities, creating the world(s) – changing and interlinking them - as they discover them.

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 transposed and projected onto the everyday–this can allow for other perceptions and imaginaries to emerge.

Within Cells Interlinked is a collaboration with the Premonitions Agency, a specu-fictional government agency whose aim is to collect, capture and analyze citizens’ dreams and intervene into them to affect possible futures.  The performance is based on real nighttime dreams, donated by the artistic team and several other dreamers.

Premiere: 29-30 May 2024, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Het Huis, Utrecht
Performances: 4-5 June 2024, Frascati, Amsterdam