Sunday 12 May 2013

Dreamthinkspeak presents: In the beginning was the end

An installation, performance which involves enormous parts of the museum space, took place in Somerset House. The audiance is guided for a while, then is left in the future. The image in front of our eyes is unusual. There are rooms everywhere, upstairs, downstairs, basement. Everywhere displayed different installations, different people. We can also meet robots which are called petbot. They understand human languages. Some rooms create shocking, claustrophobic experience with well built worlds very similar we sometimes face with in our modern society especially in business fields. The audience becomes part of this society formed by the actors of Dreamthinkspeak. We meet a multinational company with its agressive marketing trying to explain in long stories why people need their services. However when we step inside in their office, we can find frustrated workers sitting in front of their monitors and arguing with their manager. After a while, to resolve the problem a woman gets naked and goes out, leaving her clothes behind. Probably representing that there is life without multinational companies created pressure-surrounded material wellbeing. After it all the other people from the office get naked and walk away in a long corridor between visitors. They go upstairs where the visitors are not allowed to go. However when they look up, they can notice that these all naked, beautiful, young people are around the staircases and smiling back to the viewers. The view is like a renaissance painting. A paradise, heaven, suggesting, that happiness begins with the end of nonsense, robotic work.

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