Dream of Insomnia Workshop
SYMPOSIUM
17–18 February 2012
FAR – Villa Sucota
In July 2011, Susan Hiller held The Dream Seminar II at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti. Not without a hint of provocation, the artist proposed reviving a project of the seventies in which she asked the participants to "take part in intensive group workshops focusing on individual dreams". It was a question of showing through dream that repetition is not a re-presentation, a re-make or a re-cycling in the form of an infinite retrospective devoid of perspective, since, on the contrary, repetition only serves to express a singularity, which makes the difference, by shifting the dream into life.
It is this experience that we wished to extend in the Dream of Insomnia Workshop, subverting the limits and boundaries of both dream and life. Drifting to the edge of sleep, where insomnia, sleepwalking and other mediumship take us into the night's intermediary zones, we convoked a critique, between theory and practice, of dreams and their interpretation a critique which no longer belongs to "the subject" of psychoanalysis.
Critique therefore in the primary sense of the topography of impure reason; but also Critique and Clinic, in a more experimental sense, of the dream as a highway of the unconscious that mixes desire with interpretation, at the end of which we will rediscover the dream, no longer as a dream of sleep or a daydream but as an insomniac dream.
The workshop was structured around lectures and artistic performances. It hosted the presentation of the publication of the young artists who participated in the XVII CSAV. The volume Wolves and Peasants 38% No title 38% Notes 19% Dreamers 4% was edited by Mousse Publishing.
Dream of Insomnia Workshop
17-18 February 2012
curated by Éric Alliez in collaboration with Annie Ratti, Andrea Lissoni and Cesare Pietroiusti
Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Villa Sucota, via per Cernobbio 19, Como
Friday 17 February 2012
First Day
Susan Hiller
Dreamwork: an artist's perspective
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Éric Alliez
Dream of Insomnia
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Gillies Deleuze, To have done with judgement - fragment, Download (PDF)
Eric Alliez, Dream of Insomnia, text, Download (PDF)
Oliver Schefer
Romanticism and horror films: how dreams became (again) a somatic matter
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Olivier Schefer, The overflowing of dreams into real life, pathological imaginations, text, Download (PDF)
Nicola Valentino
I sogni dei reclusi del carcere di Palmi
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Nicola Valentino, I sogni dei reclusi del carcere di Palmi, text, Download (PDF)
Karl Holmqvist
Word Text Vortext
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John Duncan
Narcomantic
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Saturday 18 February 2012
Second Day
Bertrand Méheust
Alexis Didier, "the most amazing clairvoyant in modern times"
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Bertrand Meheust and Alexis Didier, the most amazing clairvoyant in modern times, text, Download (PDF)
Barbara Glowczewski
Tracking the spirit of the Dreamings. Ritual dreamers and Warlpiri artists from Lajamanu
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Felix Guattari and Barbara Glowczewski, Les Warlpiri, text, Download (PDF)
Barbara Glowczewski, The paradigm of Indigenous Australians, 2007, text, Download (PDF)
Barbara Glowczewski, Guattari et l_anthoropologie, text, Download (PDF)
Cesare Pietroiusti
Oggetti inesistenti
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Presentation of Wolves and Peasants 38% No title 38% Notes 19% Dreamers 4%, edited by Mousse Publishing - publication about the XVII Advanced Course in Visual Arts
Lindsay Benedict (USA)
no sleep 'till Brooklyn
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Gerard Cuartero (Spain)
A curator hired as a museum guard to watch an art event and dressed as a civilian
Nayari Castillo (Venezuela)
Amphisbaena and the power of seeing in the dark
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Jagna Ciuchta (Poland)
No title (63), 2010
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Lindsay Benedict and Johanna Santos Bassetti (USA and Spain)
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Roberto Fassone (Italy)
Usain Bolt and Other Back Stories
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Dario D'Aronco (Italy)
Sleep well Sleep bad
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