Change the world with your video camera… or create your own. Gavin Butt and Ben Walters explore the legacies of 1970s video revolution and its continued impact on contemporary art and performance.

Charting a path across four decades of avant-garde experiment and radical escapism, This Is Not a Dream traces the influences of Andy Warhol, John Waters and Jack Smith to the perverted frontiers of YouTube and Chatroulette, taking in subverted talk shows and soap operas, streetwalker fashions and glittery magic penises along the way.

Directed by Gavin Butt and Ben Walters, 2013. Curated by the Live Art Development Agency. Commissioned by Performance Matters in association with BURN.

Featuring Dickie Beau, Dara Birnbaum, Nao Bustamante, Vaginal Davis, Cole Escola, Vincent Fremont, Alp Haydar, Holestar, David Hoyle, Kalup Linzy, Glenn O’Brien and Scottee. 

Part of SPILL.