City of Dreams

City of Dreams is an "excerpt from a work in progress entitled a smear of roses and explores subjectivity, secrets, sadness and desire. The non-linear text of a smear of roses ruptures traditional narrative, opening out into flightlines across the plains of madness, picking up trace memories of disturbing events, sensual and violent impulses, erotic encounters and pyschotic states." -- from ELMCIP.net

"Francesca da Rimini makes work using various media including text, video and computers. . . . In 1997 da Rimini undertook an artist-in-residency at the Media Resource Centre in Adelaide, where she made an internet project entitled dollspace. dollspace is a hauntology, a ghost work of counter-memories which open thresholds of impossibilites outside of pan-capitalism -- a space which gathers the spectres of recombinant desires, deadbaby gurls, and Zapatistas. In collaboration with Ricardo Domingeuz (USA), Michael Grimm (AUS) and other possessed bodies dollspace refolds four sites that contain dark hypertext fiction, strategic links to contemporary sites of political action by third/fourth world ghosts, a zone for sightings of spectral disturbances and a 'soundtrack for an empty dollspace'. . . . Francesca da Rimini is currently shape-shifting dollspace into a new work entitled a smear of roses. . . ." -- from frAme, Issue 1, 1999