Dream Space

In this episode award-winning artist and set designer Es Devlin builds a world where humans share a language with endangered butterflies and birds. Time is circular and electronic devices non-existent. Our sound world is expanded. We hear the voices of whales and the movement of mountains. This Dream Space is the awakening of human perception. Es Devlin has worked with some of the biggest supersta...

In the latest episode of Dream Space , Nabihah Iqbal transports us to Egypt – where a calm oasis is waiting on the banks of the Nile and a golden sunset is frozen in time. Birds are singing, grandma is cooking and Jeff Buckley, Cleopatra and Bruce Lee wander past in conversation. Nabihah Iqbal is a musician, DJ, writer and broadcaster. In 2023, she has been busy curating Brighton Festival and tour...

Today our dreamer is Ivan Michael Blackstock. With a background in contemporary dance, South-London born Ivan is a true multidisciplinary artist, from Sadler’s Wells in London and Paris’ Vilette Theatre, to working with Beyoncé on the choreography of both Black Is King and the Grammy award-winning music video 'Brown Skin Girl'. Alongside this, for over seven years Blackstock has been developing TR...

Our dreamer in this episode is the brilliant Jenn Nkiru. Jenn is an award-winning artist, director and visionary filmmaker from Peckham, whose work is rooted in the history of Black music, Afro-surrealism, experimental film and the Black arts movement.   Her own particular style of filmmaking is distinctive, switching between eras and locations in a process she describes as “cosmic archaeolog...

In this episode of Dream Space, Sabrina Mahfouz invites us into her triple-room extravaganza featuring nostalgic '90s beats, pastel colours and a collaborative fine art space. Sabrina Mahfouz is a multifaceted playwright, lyricist, poet and screenwriter. Her critically acclaimed work includes the theatre adaptation of Noughts & Crosses and memoir These Bodies of Water . She explores themes aro...

In this episode we’re entering the dream space of the award-winning author and poet Danez Smith. They are the author of three critically acclaimed poetry collections, including  Homie  and  Don’t Call Us Dead  which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and delves into the intricacies of their identity as Black, queer and HIV positive. They once described their work as a ch...

The brilliant Scottee is a multi-award winning artist based in Manchester making work for theatres, ears and walls - tackling topics of class, bodies, queerness, privilege and so much more. In this episode of Dream Space they takes us on a journey through their dream of function rooms, queer euphoria and a whole lot of potato salad. factoryinternational.org/dreamspace Produced by Reduced Listening...

Actor, activist, writer, director and all round general delight Maxine Peake joins us as our first guest on Dream Space. Born and raised in Bolton, Maxine has a long relationship with Manchester and is no stranger to Manchester International Festival where she has performed multiple times - including this year at MIF23 where she performs an adaptation of Kay Dick’s dystopian novel ‘They’. Maxine t...

What does art have the power to do, when we allow ourselves to dream? Gemma Cairney speaks with some of the world’s most exciting artists to take us on a journey through an imaginary space where nothing is off limits. With infinite resources at their disposal and a blank canvas to imprint their vision on, the challenge is to stage their dream art extravaganza. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...