Paricia Allio’s based her protean project on a novel by American punk/queer author Kathy Acker. {Life is but a dream” is a cross between theatre, concert and cinema. Weaving the thread of dreams this performance, viewed from a child’s point of view, questions fiction and simulacra in any construction be it identity, urbanity, literature or theatre. Allio was freely inspired by the formal audacities of “Blood and guts in High School”, a masterpiece written by Kathy Acker in the late 1970’s New York. This experimental and boundless “novel” follows scattered literary and generic paths where the reader will get willingly lost. “Blood and guts in High School” will but trouble its readership. Juxtapositions, collages and diversions, samplings, poetized sequences, diary, and interventions are scattered with folk tales, drawings, pastiches and translations. This book hounds the language and the reader to a corner. Allio attempts to extend the subversive mind of a writer known for her provocative plagiarisms. She sets up a textual collage mixing Kathy Acker’s voice and her writing to those of other authors including Alain Robbe-Grillet’s “Project for a revolution in New York”. She also produces a montage in view of producing shorts with video directors Guillaume Robert and Gaëtan Besnard. Based on sounds, visuals and texts collected in New York, the scenic writing expends a kaleidoscope like approach of a mythical city, a dreamlike and aesthetical matrix where fictional revolutions are made and unmade.