The Dreamed House is the main outcome of the research-creation project Expanded Memory 2.0: Digital Montage of Research-Creation Products by the research group Theater, Culture, and Society. As a creation, it is a living archive space for the live arts, where characters, images, actions, and sounds from archival materials—belonging to the group’s research-creation projects between 2008 and 2023—coexist. It is a kind of Mnemosyne Atlas, perhaps inspired by Warburg, where the panels have expanded like lines of flight to configure, perhaps, a traditional house.
The bedroom, the living room, the kitchen, and the library emerge as intimate yet social containers, spaces where experiences and memories unfold. Here, recollection is evoked, texts from other fictions are heard, and those fictions expand into a new one.
There is no single way to inhabit “the house”—there are many. Each visitor/inhabitant/tenant will find their own way of engaging with one, all, or none of the rooms. The space is formed through microspaces in which everyday life rituals unfold. Each microspace blends past events, creations, and ongoing re-productions, under a clear concept of expanded memory. Electronic music and visuals enable the space to become immersive and interactive—but only at specific times, which we have called performative soundscapes.
This performative installation is both presence and absence. It is condensation and expansion. It is memory and forgetting. The Dreamed House is installation, ritual, sound, and ceremony.
Credits
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Daniel Ariza. Stage and research-creation director.
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Alejandra Murcia. Art curation and design. Researcher-creator.
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Luis Loaiza. Performer. Researcher-creator.
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Sasha Eraso. Performer. Researcher-creator.
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Sergio Naranjo. Performer. Researcher-creator.
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Juan Camilo Molina. Performer. Researcher-creator.
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Jully Castillo. Makeup. Researcher-creator.
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Adriana Guzmán. Sound design and live production. Researcher-creator.
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Alexander Ortiz. Art curation and design. Performer. Researcher-creator.
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Diana Rosero. Research-creation support.
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Manuela Garzón. Web design support.
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Vanessa Gañán. VJing. Live visual mixing.
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Professors at Universidad de Caldas
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** Professor at Universidad del Valle
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*** Professor at Bellas Artes, Institución Universitaria del Valle
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**** Students at Universidad de Caldas
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