Dream House

Dream House investigates notions of perspective and the subconscious through oral exploration of dreams. This piece is constructed with eight channels of video and repurposes the eight-projector set-up from Nadav Assor and Tirtzah Even’s Chronicle of a Fall. The hanging screens from Chronicle of a Fall create individualized experiences for two of the six interviews that are featured in Dream House.

Members of the class sought out to interview subjects of their choosing, all with the same prompt: “Tell me about a dream.” The goal was to encourage the interviewee to interpret the prompt freely, so as not to invoke a uniform response. This leads to a polyphony of experiences that bleed into one another as the voices of the interviewees shift across the space, their words matching or contrasting with the visuals on the four walls and the backside of the hanging screens.