FaseREM

FaseREM is a site-specific performance conceived for the Lakeside Restaurant of the School of Management, University of Surrey. It explores notions of intimacy, place, and the “horrible outside-inside” (Bachelard 1994). Horrible, Bachelard comments, because “in this ambiguous space, the mind has lost its geometrical homeland and the spirit is drifting” (p.217).

FaseREM does not literally want to perform the phase of sleep in which we dream, rather it finds in it a metaphor to express the sense of confusion experienced in the halfway condition between being asleep and awake. Then, an absolute abysm of uncertainty is generated. And it is around this uncertainty of being in and out, in a place or instead out of place, dressed or undressed, awake or asleep, of being the Self or the Other that FaseREM develops.