Have you ever had a dream about DIIV? If you have, then yours will be the easiest for the Brooklyn-based band to reenact. The band has offered up their acting talents as part of a Kickstarter fundraiser for Andrew Hoepfner's surrealist immersive theatre performance, Houseworld. Essentially, a group of 30 guests enter a mansion and experience a "lucid dream," walking through different rooms and observing the actions of different characters interspersed throughout. It sounds like an in-progress take on Sleep No More, an über-popular immersive retelling of Hamlet that takes place in New York's McKittrick Hotel. In Houseworld, guests will encounter a variety of characters, such as The Spirit In The Attic, The Wind, Amaya, The Cook, The Bathtub Guru, AND, for the obscene price of $10,000, the members of DIIV will reenact the dreams of three separate individuals. On Kickstarter, Hoepfener states that donations will be used to make Houseworld a long-running performance that's open to the public; previously it was invite-only. You can watch a trailer for Houseworld, featuring "The Bathtub Guru," below. It's pretty fucking creepy! In a Lynchian kind-of way.
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UPDATE: DIIV Tweeted about their involvement with the project.
Houseworld is trying to raise $30k. $10k may seem absurd for us to re-enact yr dream, but its more an investment in making Houseworld (1/2)
— DIIV (@DIIV) June 1, 2015
(2/2) open and available to the public. it was more a publicity grab to draw attention to Houseworld than us thinking our time is worth $10k
— DIIV (@DIIV) June 1, 2015
DIIV will release their sophomore album Is The Is Are this fall on Captured Tracks.
