Inverted Dreaming
Immersive Video-Installation
Have you ever awakened trying to remember all the scenes of a very long dream?
Have you ever remembered being at the top of a mountain or falling?
Inverted Dreaming is one of those dreams from which we try to create a logic line for all the disconnected dreamy imagery.
The images of the dream are sometimes very clear, other times in non-natural colors. Sometimes we dream about people we know in the bodies of people that we don’t recognize. When we think we know what the dream is about, suddenly we find ourselves in a theater of the absurd.
Inverted Dreaming is born from footage of the Italian National Park of the “Maritime Alps” when in 2016 we shot this marvelous place for the first time for cinematic VR for the interactive documentary project: Unreachable Maritime Alps. Some of the highest peaks of the park displayed in Inverted Dreaming are the Argentera peak (3297 Mts), the lakes of Fremamorta (2300 Mts) and the Chiapous pass (2526 Mts). During the shooting, a group of Italian young artists got together to improvise a series of performances in some of the most beautiful locations of the park: the Charter-house of Pesio, the military barracks and tunnels built during the First World War.
The PlayLab has been the perfect opportunity to reinterpret this precious footage, bring it back to life and fight against the obsolesce of the digital medium while bringing an alpine panorama to Sweden in the same tradition of old panorama paintings from the late 1800s.
Shot at Parco delle Alpi Marittime (Maritime Alps National Park), during “Le Marittime Irraggiungibili: Scenari Alpini a 360º” workshop (2016).
Inverted Dreaming at PlayLab Skövde
Co-Presented with the Skövde Art Museum and Skövde Kulturlabbet, this Future Media Theaters showcase is free & open to the public, and presents a series of interactive and immersive media performance works, as part of the grand opening of the new Kulturlabbet facility in Downtown Skövde, which will be the home to a new high-tech media performance research, art, and community space called PlayLab.