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The SIT-PLU Lab warmly welcomes you to our final activity of 2025, a Winter Gathering around the Winter Solstice on Thursday, 18 December, from 14:00–19:00 at LUCA campus Ghent / Ter Beken.As we approach the shortest day and the longest night, a liminal, magical time when we sleep more and our bodies begin to hibernate, the dream space becomes more attuned. As we retreat into our cocoons, we reflect on where we have been and restore body and mind for the next cycle.
We invite you for an afternoon dedicated to surrendering to the darkness and tuning into the collective dream. We will screen the short film: 'La Partida de las Imágenes' by Ana Edwards. Hovering between ethnography and reverie, the film enters the in-between spaces of the dreams of a Mapuche family in Southern Chile, exploring human and other-than-human social cartographies of the territory.
Artist, researcher, and writer Marieke McKenna will present a lecture performance on lucid dreaming, cross-cultural perspectives on dreams, and the phenomenology of inner space: creative imagination. She will guide us through the spectrum of consciousness – from daydreaming and night dreaming to lucid dreaming, creative imagination, and altered and meditative states. Together, we will explore the concepts of inspiration and genius through the lens of cultivating a creative mind.
As dusk falls, we will follow the fading light and tune our senses into the darkness through a “winter sleep” score by Annelotte Lammertse and Juan Ducque. What does it truly mean to experience darkness – and the hope of the return of light?
To close the day, Marieke will guide us through a lucid dreaming DJ set.
What to bring: A mat for the collective dreaming session.
Free event, but registration required.
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Beekstraat 1, 9030 Gent, België, Beekstraat 1, 9030 Gent, België, Gent, Belgium
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