Alice’s Worlds: Dreaming Wonderland
Alice’s Worlds: Dreaming Wonderland is an exhibition commissioned by Victoria Albert Museum (UK) and Caixa Forum (Barcelona). It shows the scope of the influence of Alice in the world and how the themes and ideas raised in the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland continues to be relevant.
Eléctrico 28 created the playful dimension of the exhibition, spaces for playing, for touching, for talking to a phone, for having irreverent conversations, for some existencial reflections, and for facilitating a dialogue between Alice’s world and our own.
“Hello visitors. This is Lewis Carroll speaking. Yes… I know it must seem strange being greeted by the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland…. but what did you expect?
You remind me of Alice! A keen observer, sharp, clever… still here and there. She’s never stopped transforming and imagining the impossible”.
A wall with a series of window-holes through which limbs and complete bodies can pass. Like Alice, the visitor puts his or her body in relation to the proportion of the place. They will feel small, or too big.
There is a slight oddity when a visitor appears in a room through a hole and not through the main door.
Somewhere in the exhibition, the visitor come across a table with three different decks of cards, two chairs and a mirror. The game consists of having a conversation (about time, proportion or identity) by the means of the chance of the cards. It will surely be irreverent. A brief Wonderland-style conversation.
After having received a lot of information and stimuli throughout the visit of the exhibition, it is time of tranquillity, rest and introspection.
An intimate audio takes the visitor on a kind of guided meditation to provoke a somnolent state from which emotionally connect the present world to Wonderland.
With our mediation, we wanted:
– That the visitor finds himself in situations in which he must intervene, decide or doubt, like Alice.
– To offer spaces to offer a physical and emotional experience inspired by Alice’s.
– Let the visitors connect today’s world with the wonderland.
Idea and order:
Caixa Forum
Conceptualization of the mediation:
Eléctrico 28
Artistic direction & Project coordination:
Daniela Poch, Clàudia Mirambell
Technical direction:
Arnau Vinós
Sound direction:
Alina Stockinger
Music and sound compositor:
Jakob Rüdisser
Voice of Alice:
Daniela Brown
Voice of Lewis:
Tassio Martínez
Exhibition Comission:
Victoria Albert, Caixa Forum Barcelona
Graphic design:
Silvio Garcia
Cards writing and game design:
Daniela Poch, Clàudia Mirambell
