Dream Babes is a long-term project led by Sin Wai Kin in collaboration with Auto Italia featuring artists using speculative fiction as a productive medium for intersectional queer experience, bringing together practitioners working across varied mediums to enact worlds that we are for, with others. This project is comprised of many iterations, public moments and opportunities to come together. These events form part of a three-day live programme hosted at Auto Italia.

Ifekoya and Sin invite the audience to partake in a moment of queer collectivity focussing on our experiences of nightlife and the physical within the social body.

Evan Ifekoya and Sin Wai Kin
What is enabled
In the space of a groove?
Tell me a story,
Share an experience,
Of a song that moved you.
Of a look from someone
that transported you,
Outta this world.
What is enabled
In the space of a groove?
Tell me a story,
Take me on a journey,
To when a DJ transported you,
When a dancefloor transformed you,
Into a most complete
Version of self.
In the space of a groove
Let’s Voyage together,
Beyond the conflict of language,
Where body feedback
Can generate a belonging.

Spacer Woman (Chooc Ly Tan) DJ set
With a penchant for electronic music, Tan’s DJ sets present a varied selection taking in from Hip Hop, Afrobeat, Bollywood, experimental Dakbe, high-voltage Electro, through to fusions we haven’t found names for yet.

Evan Ifekoya (b. 1988, Nigeria) is an interdisciplinary artist working with text, sound, community organising, installation, performance and video. They view art as a site where resources can be both redistributed and renegotiated, whilst challenging the implicit rules and hierarchies of public and social space. They have recently shown work at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2016); and Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town (2016), and presented performances at Serpentine Galleries, London (2016) and Whitstable Biennial (2016).

Sin Wai Kin (b. 1991, Canada) is an artist, writer and performer. Sin’s practice pivots around the use of speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing and print, to question the idealised image and the collective gaze. Identifying as mixed race and non-binary, their work creates fantasy narratives, to interrupt normative processes around issues of desire, identification, and objectification. Sin’s use of performance and particularly drag began as a means of deconstructing and challenging misogyny and racism in and outside of the queer community. They have recently presented works at Pi Artworks, London (2016); CGP Gallery, London (2016); and The Lightbox, Woking (2015).

Spacer Woman (Chooc Ly Tan) DJ set
Chooc Ly Tan (Spacer Woman) (b. France) is an Afro-Asian Artist, DJ & Voyager, educated in London and Reykjavik, and in residence on Planet Earth. With a penchant for electronic music, Chooc Ly’s DJ sets present a varied selection taking in from Hip Hop, Afrobeat, Bollywood, experimental Dakbe, high-voltage Electro, through to fusions we haven’t found names for yet. She has presented works and performances at Drawing Room London (2015); Gasworks, London (2014); Flat Time House, London (2014); Art Rotterdam (2014); CCA, Glasgow (2014); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2014); Nottingham Contemporary (2014); and Supernormal Festival, UK (2012).