This title features artists such as Fabienne Audeoud & John Russell, Barbara Bloom, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Katarzyna Kozyra, Joan Jonas, Mark Lewis, Sharon Lockhart, Aernout Mik, Tony Oursler, Judy Radul, Catherine Sullivan, Artur Zmijewski. Essays are by Peter Pakesch, Adam Budak, Mieke Bal, Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Judy Radul. This catalogue for Videodreams, an exhibition of recent video installations at Kunsthaus Graz, is a study of the mechanism of illusion and imagined realities with a focus on the notions of the theatrical, the performative and the mise-en-scene. How are conventions being negotiated? How is artificiality played out in a drama of genuine gestures and intentions? How is belief born and spelled out on the crossway of a direct and mediated behaviour between real and virtual environments?