Installation 2014. C’est un laboratoire situationniste, une expérience onirique multidisciplinaire, qui a pour but une création à partir de l’autre.
J’ai rêvé que je dormais / Ik droomde dat ik sliep / I dreamed I was sleeping. It is a situationist laboratory, a multidisciplinary dream experience, which seeks a creation from another.
Chaque nuit une personne à été invitée à dormir dans le lieux d’exposition : La Maison Pelgrims. Trois chambres ont été aménagées avec des meubles, objets et plantes personnelles. Le dormeur est convié à souper et à choisir son lit de préférence. Un protocole de 18 exercices est appliqué à chaque invité en deux étapes: avant de dormir et au réveil, pour stimuler tant la vision que le rappel du rêve. Le lendemain le dormer dévoile ses rêves pendant le petit déjeuner.
Each night a person was invited to sleep in the exhibition venue: The house. Three rooms were furnished with personal objects and plants. The sleeper was invited to dinner and to choose a bed. A protocol of 18 exercises was applied to each guest in two stages: before going to sleep and upon wakening to stimulate the vision and the memory of the dream. The next day the sleeper reveals her dreams during breakfast.
Le choix des invités a été fait en fonction de leur profession et des circonstances. Certains des invités j’ai rencontrés le jour même de l’expérience, tandis que d’autres sont des connaissances et quelques amis proches.
Notes by Catherine Callico – extract “Un échange d’emails via une amie commune et une consigne: se présenter à 20h à la Maison Pelgrims et se munir d’un pyjama, de pantoufles, d’une brosse à dents. Sabrina Montiel-Soto m’ accueille dans ce lieu classé, de type néo-renaissance flamande, propriété de la commune de Saint-Gilles depuis plus d’un demi-siècle, et me propose de choisir une des trois chambres.”
En colaboration avec Johan de Bock. Grand merci à touts les dormeurs, en special à Eva Gorsse, Nelly de Bock +, Alicia Soto-Belloso, Danaqué, l’équipe de La Maison Pelgrims et à la Maison même de m’avoir hébergée pendant toutes ces nuits.
La Maison Pelgrims in St. Gilles, Brussels, Belgium 2014
View of the exibition
Laboratory in-situ, objects that were used for the protocol exercises
Instalation of the dinner table
During dinner the sleeper chose a napkin
While sleeping
View of the exibition, the sleeper’s linen on their bed
The linen are identified by their profession
View of the exibition, the cups for breakfast from witch the sleepers could choose one
Picture. The cups in order of preference, from top to bottom : made in England, Holland, Columbia, France, The Netherlands, and China
View of the exibition. All the objets used for the protocol exercises
Detail : 7 pencils
Exercise: They choose a ceramic piece and a color
Detail: The ceramic pieces painted with selected color
Exercice: Rolling the dice
Detail
Excercise: Scrabble, build a sentence or word, 4 sleepers wrote the word “butcher”
View of the exibition
Details: Scrabble and cube with different word pictures writen by the sleepers
Exercise: Cards, select 2 cards, look at one the same evening and at the other the next day.
View of the exibition. Cards, drawings, personal items and maraca used by musician
Laboratory: An exceptional exercise protocol for the musician, Tomas Giry. Making music all night with the intention of not sleeping. This is the result which was presented during the opening >
Exercise: Build their dream house
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Exercise: Chose scissors and embroidered napkin and cut the napkin
View of the exibition
View of the exibition, cut napkins
View of the exibition
Exercise: Choose an image in a book
Exercise: Choose an image or sentence in a newspaper
View of the exibition
Exercise: Draw some memory of the dream
View of the exibition. The drawings of the sleepers
View of the exibition. Every night I wrote in this machine the memories of my dreams
View of the exibition
Exercise: Choose a photo in an unknown album > “Palma à 2, août 1966 – Palma Eldorado 1967”
View of the exibition. Sleepers selected photos
Details
Musée de la Perception / Perception Museum. Sign, fishbowl and sand.
La Vidente / The Seer. Stained glass
Nuage et Cuisinier / Cloud and Cook. Plaster, dart and pillow
Slaap / Sleep. Magazine, glass and wood
L’attente / Pending. Wig and fabric
View of the exibition. Installation: Drawings, ceramics and newspapers
Notebook, daily report
J’ai rêvé que je dormais / I dreamed I was sleeping. Postcard (Male portrait, Rome, Palazzo Capitolino) and metal object.