About this Event
In the Dream Salon a recent dream of an attendee is discussed while the dream is painted live onto pages taken from Freud’s book The Interpretation of Dreams. In this multisensory performance we will trace back the dream to the waking life concerns and experiences that created the dream, while watching the dream take visual form in Julia Lockheart's painting. Uncannily relevant words of Freud will become part of the artwork as objets trouvés and found poetry. The Dream Salon is part of the Cast Into Neath / Gwedd Ar Nedd exhibition at Queen Street Gallery.
The discussion of the dream will be moderated by Mark Blagrove, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Swansea University. The dream painting will be performed live by artist Julia Lockheart, Emeritus Professor at Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. See DreamsID.com for more information and artworks, or read our book The Science and Art of Dreaming, published by Routledge, 2023, which was ranked #1 by Amazon for new cognitive psychology books, and #5 for conceptual arts books.
Details of event:
Attendees who have a recent dream they would want discussed give a brief description of the dream, so that all attendees can decide which dream will be chosen. The dream of one attendee is then recounted and discussed. During this discussion artist Julia Lockheart will paint her visual interpretation of it onto pages taken from Freud’s book The Interpretation of Dreams. Her artworks incorporate the layout, formatting and words from the pages, and are part of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements of performance art inspired by dreams and by dream-like thinking. People who have had their dreams interpreted and drawn by this exciting art science collaboration have had ‘aha’ experiences when the links to waking life are discovered! Artworks from our previous events can be seen at DreamsID.com.
We thank the publisher Wordsworth Classics for permission to use pages taken from the 1st English translation of Sigmund Freud's book The Interpretation of Dreams in the creation of our artworks. Photo of Mark and Julia at top of this page by Paul Duerinckx, at top of page also is the (1924) photograph by Man Ray of surrealist Waking Dream Seance, and Julia Lockheart's painting of a dream told to Freud by his patient Dora.
We hope you will join us.
Schedule
13.50 - 14.00: everyone arrives;
14.00 - 14.15: attendees with a recent dream give a brief description of the dream so that everyone can vote on which dream will be discussed and painted;
14.15 - 15.45: the dream is told and discussed by everyone using a standard method for group dream discussions, moderated by Mark Blagrove. Julia Lockheart paints the dream during the discussion;
15.45 - 16.00: Julia Lockheart describes the composition of the painting and how it refers to the dream and to the dreamer's waking life.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Queen Street Gallery, 40 Queen Street, Neath, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
