Cabin Fever
Cabin Fever is an audiovisual artwork featuring 4 multilingual dreams, investigating pandemic dreaming. Sung and spoken by over 50 performers worldwide, the work captures the fragility of their connections with each other, creating an empty and delayed sonic space.
Cabin Fever explores unconventional uses of video conferencing technology, reappropriating large video screens from public spaces. Singers cover their computer cameras with colourful objects from their homes, creating shifting colour palettes on screen. Each colour spectrum represents a different group of singers, with variations emerging from the natural interaction between the camera, lighting, and the textures and colours of the chosen objects.
The dreams were collected with the assistance of dream researchers around the world, including Jake Clwyd Roberts (UK), Kelly Bulkeley (USA), Fabiane M. Borges, Livia Diniz and Deirdre Leigh Barrett (Brasil).
Featured languages: Japanese / English / Brazilian Portuguese / Arabic
Video, 86" flat-screen monitors, external speakers,
20 minutes
Photography: Mischa Haller (London), Ros Kavanagh (Galway)