Virtual reality meets performing arts in an immersive piece where there is no difference between memory and fiction.

"som konstnärlig verk är ”The Dreambox” en suggestiv och in i minsta detalj välgjord komposition, från musiken till projektionerna och rummens dunkla interiörer. Skådespelarna spelar sina roller med driv och inlevelse och det omslutande, krävande tilltalet är svårt att värja sig mot." 

(Boel Gerell, Sydsvenskan 20/12 2015)

Developed at Eskus - Performance Center in Suvilahti, Helsinki, Finland
and premiere at Inkonst, Malmö 18 December 2015

In The Dreambox we can make individual dreams into collective memories. The piece consists of several rooms where you as an audience participant get guided through an exhibition of dreams and memories. With the aid of virtual reality headsets we together investigate the embodiment of situations that have happened or that we want to happen. We let the perspectives shift between exhibition, game and theatre and mix participating with observing, the intimate with the public, the private with the political and the most fantastic and strange.

The Dreambox is a part of Project Portal: a project that combines performing arts with virtual reality gear.

By: Emma Bexell and Stefan Stanisic (Bombina Bombast)
Scenography: Svante Back

Participating artist in the Malmö edition: 
Svante Back (SE)
Emma Bexell (SE)
Carina Ehrenholm (SE)
Axel Fagerberg (SE), Ana Stanišić (SE), Adam Stålhammar (SE), Albin Westerlind (SE)
Andrea Vik (NO), Sjur Marqvardsen (NO)
Nina Matthis (SE), Milan Marković (SE/RS)
Felicia Ohly (SE), Paula Sundberg (SE), Amanda Lebert Elfvelin (SE)
Ale Ottenby (SE), Mina Vattøy (SE/NO)
Karolina Pietrzykowska (PL)
Stefan Stanisic (SE)
Ida Wallfelt (SE)
Anneli Horáková Eriksson (SE), Lovisa Perman (SE) 
and Jerk Ohlson Westin (SE) 

Funded by: Swedish Arts Council, Skåne Regional Council and the Department of Culture in Malmö