Curated by Ellen Blumenstein

With “DOOM SNOOZERS – Penultimate Dreams”, Böhler & Orendt have developed a darkly comic science fiction speculation for Spreepark Art Space. The multimedia installation interweaves existing and new works to create a walk-in scenario of dreamlike visual worlds in which the past, future present, and past future collide.

Visitors of the exhibition in the historic Eierhäuschen are transported to a scene from the near future: a group of exhausted future inhabitants seeking shelter from one of the frequent storms. Scattered around, these loafing figures seem to have fallen asleep while waiting and started dreaming. And because this will be easily possible in the future, the images from the sleepers' subconscious materialize as “works of art” in the exhibition rooms all by themselves.

The fictional character Jill, a well-informed virtual dormouse, adds an acoustic dimension to the visual level of the installation. As the guide of this audio tour, she shares historical, political, and ecological background knowledge and keeps spinning the narrative threads.

DOOM SNOOZERS is an imaginary time travel experiment: What might await humanity and the planet in the coming decades? Perhaps at that point – in retrospect – the disturbing developments of the 2020s will seem comparatively harmless?