I don’t remember my dreams

for a performer and their shadow, tom, and tape

Hortense Airault & Paulo Amendoeira

I don't remember my dreams unfolds somewhere between reality and a fragile illusion slowly coming apart.

A performer interacts with their own shadow, a double that seems at once attached to the body and strangely independent from it, like another version of the self, or an imprint left behind by time.

The set-up and tape behave like unstable memory devices, evoking the mechanics of an old cassette player. The piece carries the imprint of an absent presence — a voice, a gesture, a residue trapped inside the machine. As magnetic tape deteriorates over time, memory itself begins to transform, leaving behind altered traces and remnants of the past.

Inspired in part by the atmosphere of the Club Silencio scene in Mulholland Drive, the piece gradually exposes the mechanisms sustaining its own illusion, as the dream-like surface slowly begins to crack open. What remains is the imprint of something that was once there.

Documentation and teaser forthcoming