Thursday, 12 November 2009

Yang Zhifei – Dream workshops (OCAT Book Bar)





Yang Zhifei – Dream workshops (OCAT Book Bar)

Amsterdam-based artist Yang Zhifei realized a series of workshops that are open to the public and that investigate the similarities and individuality of dreams. She recorded the voices of Dutch people describing dreams that they have had and that they felt remain important to them. She played them back on a black screen, only displaying the Chinese translation of the dreams. The workshop participants were then asked to make a drawing representing the dream. Another Chinese person then reinterpreted each drawing as a dream. In the final presentation the audience was faced with three different versions of the same dream.