What are your dreams and nightmares? In this workshop, we share our experience and knowledge of dreaming, in its various forms, while being asleep and awake. Michikazu Matsune, who involves the method of story-sharing in his performances, invites the participants to collectively reflect on our dreams and nightmares. What seem personal and private are often constructs of our socio-cultural, economic or political circumstances. Are we dreaming the same dreams? Are we haunted by the same nightmares? Let’s check it out!
The workshop welcomes everyone who can sleep well or cannot sleep well.
No previous experience with arts or writing is necessary.
Michikazu Matsune, born in Kobe and lives in Vienna, is an artist working at the crossroads between documentary and conceptual performance, in which poetry, humour, the absurd, and criticism meet. His work explores the relationship between public and private, identity and globalisation, story and action. Michikazu is the initiator of The Institute of Sleepless Nights, a research project devoted to the art of sleeplessness and a wide range of troubles related to the act of sleeping. Michikazu’s work All Together can be seen at this edition of SAAL Biennaal.