DREAM OPERATOR: Gemma Marmalade
Rogers Art Loft Virtual Studio, October-November 2020
Welcome to Gemma Marmalade’s virtual studio. Relics from her project, DREAM OPERATOR, will live here throughout her residency. The work will continue to be accessible online at this page post-residency.
Rogers Art Loft and Gemma Marmalade are thrilled to launch DREAM OPERATOR.
Dream Operator is your toll free telephone service providing wisdoms to the national public during the last twelve hours of the Presidential Election 2020.
From 7am until 7pm Pacific Time on November 3rd, our call center telephone lines will be open and Dream Operators will be ready to take your call.
For more information about Gemma's previous RAL project, VODA, visit: www.rogersartloft.com/voda/gemmamarmalade
Sound design by @antoniozeemusic.
#DREAMOPERATOR a toll-free #telephone call center for the public of #america on Nov 3rd 7 am to 7 pm PST #Election2020 to serve extracts of #USA’s most powerful speech acts to callers. How will YOUR views stack up?
Caesars Palace digital billboard, Las Vegas Strip, Thursday October 22nd, 2020. Image by @mikaylawhitmore
#DREAMOPERATOR️ IN THE SKY
A toll-free #telephone call center for the public of #america on Nov 3rd 7 am to 7 pm PT #Election2020 to serve extracts of #USA ’s most powerful speech acts to callers. How will YOUR views stack up? 🇺🇸
Fremont Street canopy, Downtown Las Vegas, Sunday October 25th, 2020.
Image by Mikayla Whitmore.
Gemma Marmalade is a British artist and scholar currently undertaking doctoral research titled: In A Manner of Speaking: The Subversive Voice in Performative Art at the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. This near-completed enquiry examines the performing artists’ voice as, potentially, a subversive agent. It is motivated by a process of thinking, making, and showing performance-based art works that utilize voice in a way that deliberately skews meaning and a distorting of the conventional delivery of contexts and information. With an active research profile, Gemma is a Professor in Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Photography at the University of Derby. As an artist, her work specializes in audacious spectacles in photography, video and performance which playfully negotiate the authenticity of hierarchical institutions with social and queer politics. Gemma’s practice is exhibited widely, including Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; The Photographers' Gallery, London; The Apulia Film Commission, Bari; and the State Museum of Gulag, Moscow.