SEVEN GOTHIC TALES — THE GLOBAL PROJECT
Supported in part by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Danish Ministry of Culture.
In partnership with Karen Blixen Museum, Rungstedlund, Denmark and the Consulate General of Denmark in New York.
THE DREAMERS — From Zanzibar to Milan — by Michael Omoke
A transformation of Karen Blixen’s “The Dreamers” (from Seven Gothic Tales, 1934)— transfigured into an immersive spatial labyrinth.
The first chapter in a long-term sequence translating all seven tales into multisensory installations.
Project Structure:
- Syv Fantastiske Fortællinger — En Sanselig Genkomst til Danmark
- A Literary Return to America
- A Sensory Return to Kenya
Seven Gothic Tales — A Literary Return to America (USA)
Source text — opening of The Dreamers (1863)
“On a full moon night of 1863, a dhow was on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar, following the coast about a mile out. She carried full sails before the monsoon and had in her a freight of ivory and rhino horn. This last is highly valued as an aphrodisiac, and traders come for it to Zanzibar from as far as China. But besides these cargoes the dhow also held a secret load, which was about to stir and raise great forces, and of which the slumbering countries which she passed did not dream.”— Karen Blixen, The Dreamers (Seven Gothic Tales)
