Week 9 Critic for Impossible things- Rapid Eye Movement: Hilary

In 'impossible things- Rapid Eye Movement', I found myself not knowing where one groups idea finished and the next started- so that’s a positive as it flowed really nicely at the start of the experience and each group followed on from the previous.

I found it odd how they had their safety briefing AFTER we’ve already been through two situations that could’ve been hazardous- being blindfolded, taken in a hot, dark room with strobe lights although there was a brief warning beforehand.

I think the expo address their theme well their impossible things being in the form of dreams- rapid eye movement being shorted to REM which people throughout the expo mentioned so it really felt like a collective.

The atmosphere was very fun and interested in what this collective had to offer- I could see plenty of people participating and enjoying themselves in the ‘dream state’.

Their offering was a dream state – altering reality, dreams

eg choosing a dream, wealth, power or immortality- then the group showed us the downside and reality of the dream that we picked with our token. The collective had a variety of offerings- from being able to pick your dream and to not being able to, and have a nightmare like experience which some of the groups did, scaring the attendees

One thing i would improve on would be the waiting around during the expo and we had to wait for an amount of time to participant is some offerings which definitely influenced the smoothness of the people flow