In My Dreams I Am Ok
In My Dreams I Am Ok is a theatrical performance event by Francesco Nassimbeni.
Contents
The original text
Director’s note:
"I’m inspired by an emerging internet aesthetic of appropriation and juxtaposition. The humble meme is a great source of inspiration! Found images overlaid with text – there is something subversive about this play with meaning, and the way it has been adopted as ‘public artform’ has informed my method. Similarly, many artists, particularly online, are distorting found images; collaging them, splicing them with other imagery. In this way, post-modernism has found a new audience, and I suppose my performance pieces have a place in that ‘world’. The costume and décor aesthetic is devised and improvisational. All visual elements start off as proposals which are either discarded, or developed. What has helped me with this is a departure from planning – with no ‘ideal’ aesthetic presupposed, my collaborators are able to create using intuition."
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
2015: Presented by The Playgroup together with UCT Drama at The Bindery Lab, Hiddingh Campus, UCT, directed by Francesco Nassimbeni, design by Richard De Jager, decor by Heath Nash, with Edward Berridge, Chloe Cattin, Sesane Sealy, Tsatsi Rugege, Rosa-Karoo Loewe, Zac Fleishman, Olivia Fischer, Andi Colombo and Jason Potgieter.
Sources
UCT Little Theatre Facebook page, 19 November 2015
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