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The Dream Director_
Date 12nd January 2009
Tags exhibition, sleep, dreams, UK, FACT, international, event
Luke Jerram’s The Dream Director is a unique event, installation and exploration investigating the hidden realm of dreaming. Where do people go when they dream? What do they see? What do they experience? And can the shape of dreams be influenced as the dreamer is sleeping? These are the questions posed and explored by artist Luke Jerram in his participatory work, The Dream Director. The Dream Director explores the boundaries of participants’ conscious and subconscious minds, prompting questions about the ethics of and possibilities for, creating art in dream space. It is also a new tool for sleep science and clinical applications that raises questions about the rules of interaction and boundaries of science and art.
The Dream Director invites people to sleep overnight in a gallery. Specially designed “pods” house the dreamers who don eye-masks that detect rapid eye movement, indicating the dreaming stage of sleep. When the dreamers reach their dream state, their eye masks trigger ambient sounds via a computer, which are played into small speakers mounted into the pod, in an attempt to affect the nature and content of their dreams.
16 – 17 January
For Tickets & Information contact : +44 (0)151 7074450 or email
Info@fact.co.uk
FACT, (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) 88 Wood St, Liverpool L14 DQ
