Dream Factory
Program, P.1805
- Identifier
- P.1805
- Category
- Open Voice
- Date
- August 1 – 3, 2002
- Description
- Dream Factory is a collaboration between Milutin Gubash and Althea Thauberger that will transform part of the gallery into a reconfigured television studio that will host a performance night consisting of a number of amateur acts. A standard 3-camera studio mode before a "live studio audience" will be used. The stage will consist of a generic backdrop and a live feed will be seen on two TV monitors. Inspired by the format of a "variety show", the performers will be solicited from a "casting call" put out in local newspapers under the classified section. The collaboration will allow the two artists to stage and produce a show in which the performers will be given the freedom to participate without being inhibited or having a direction imposed on them. The people who reply to the advertisement will determine the tone and direction of the event. What makes this project interesting is its ability to access a community who otherwise would not exhibit in a contemporary gallery setting. It thus provides a space in which notions of art and entertainment are expanded and reconsidered.