A Midsummer Night’s Fevre Dream is the realization of years of planning between award-winning photographer Angela N. Hunt and her primary collaborator and inspiration, actor and model Heidi Kobara: an experimental production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with an all female cast, inspired by the unique, world-renowned costumes and performances of Sypher Art Studios’ Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade.
The project is crowd-fundraising its modest budget of $1300 USD through IndieGoGo.com, the world’s largest global funding platform. The $1300 raised will be used to pay for travel money for the models, production expenses, and perk fulfillment.
A Midsummer Night’s Fevre Dream can be found here: www.indiegogo.com
Angela N. Hunt, photographer, said: “Heidi and I are passionate about A Midsummer Night’s Fevre Dream, especially considering how things currently are playing out for women in the world and the culture at large, i.e. the War on Women. Since the earliest days of the theatre, including in Shakespeare’s time, the idea of women on the stage was considered not just wrong: it was obscene. The idea of subverting one of his plays into a performance art piece with an all female cast seems particularly karmic…and just straight up fun. With the 450th anniversary of the Bard’s death just having passed, the project couldn’t have come to us at a better time.”
A Midsummer Night’s Fevre Dream is offering some fantastic rewards; the reward for just a $25 contribution nets twenty images from the shoot for art reference from the shoot for the contributor to use in any way they wish under a Creative Commons Share/Share Alike/Attribution license. Other rewards include postcards and prints, and a rather unique reward called Anji’s Camera, which consists of images captured during the shoot with a disposable camera by Hunt. The camera will be mailed to the lucky supporter who chooses it, undeveloped, and it will be up to them to share or keep private.
As the inimitable Molly Crabapple says: “We are the Medici now.” Crowdfunding enables people like Hunt with a great art project to ask the general public for the funds to make that art happen, outside of the mainstream art world, where ideas like this often can’t get traction. It’s a brave new world, and in all the right ways.
ABOUT ANGELA N. HUNT
Angela N. Hunt is a photographer/writer/filmmaker/publisher/mom who has been making art for over sixteen years now.
She digs in her garden, drives her girls to and from school and dance, and has long conversations by texts with her muse, Heidi Kobara, aka the Mad Model. She’s learned that keeping a weather eye out for that spark of inspiration and staying rooted in the world is what lights a fire in her heart and drives her to make art. She has shown work in galleries from San Francisco to Florence, Italy, and created multiple photo series, as well as contributed work to the permanent collection of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
