Dream Sequence
2018
6 hour performance
Lilac Festival + The Bows, Calgary
Photos by Elyse Bouvier
An ordinary environment is transformed into a strange but inviting preternatural landscape. The artist uses objects to perform an improvised sequence of an unpredictable dream; visitors to the festival are invited to take part, encounter, create their own reverie, or just observe the artist’s surreal environment, which throughout the day, roved and morphed in incalculable ways, as a dream might…
Glitter, many colours. Some cellophane maybe. Eggs can drown then become cut carrots, which are actually your best friend, because all bets about ontology are off and in a blink the landscape melts. Donuts floating, the wayward passengers of tiny hot air balloons. A box for you, with marbles, a baseball, a smaller-than-life disco globe, other tiny spheres. Whose teeth are those anyway? Paint and feathers are the tools for revolution, even if it’s quiet. And I promise, there will be flowers. Lilacs, even.
- Natasha Chaykowski