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ONEIRIC.SPACE DIGEST N°3—December 2019
Oneiric Space
Hi there,

We've been thinking about the intro to the book How to Do Nothing where author Jenny Odell outlines how difficult it is to do nothing in a hyperconnected world that often conflates self-worth with productivity. As a result, "a certain nervous feeling, of being overstimulated and unable to sustain a train of thought, lingers," she writes. 

We know this feeling all too well. It comes, it goes, and, sometimes, it seeps into our nocturnal world in the form of anxiety dreams. Odell continues, "Though it can be hard to grasp before it disappears behind the screen of distraction, this feeling is in fact urgent." This got us thinking: Instead of forgetting, resisting or suppressing anxious feelings, what if we were to capture them in their dream forms and hold them in physical space and time with curiosity? More below.

Happy holidaze!
Charmaine & Effie
OPEN CALL:
Anxiety Release Reading with ONEIRIC.SPACE
Upcoming event
Picking up from our intro... We're hosting a reading on 25 January 2020 at Haus am Lützowplatz—and we're seeking anonymous dream accounts where the dominant feeling was *ANXIETY*. Please note that a selection of entries will be read at our Anxiety Release Reading and be used for ONEIRIC.SPACE's publication projects. We'll also be reading texts by artists, writers, philosophers, scientists or researchers that respond, or speak directly, to the chosen dream accounts. 

SUBMIT A DREAM NOW
How Dreams Change Under Authoritarianism
via The New Yorker
A fascinating piece that traces the origins of The Third Reich of Dreams, a book by journalist Charlotte Beradt, who collected seventy-five dreams that Germans had while the Nazis were in power. Released in 1966, the book reveals the effects the regime had on the collective unconscious and presents the dream world as the one realm of free expression under authoritarianism. "The book deserves revisiting, not just because we see echoes today of the populism, racism, and taste for surveillance that were part of Beradt’s time but because there’s nothing else like it in the literature of the Holocaust," writes Mireille Juchau in The New Yorker.

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QUOTE FOR THOUGHT
“I think (my father) would say that his real life takes place when he’s asleep, and waking life acts as the brackets around that. I grew up learning to pay attention to my dreams. Some of my earliest memories from childhood are actually of dreams I had, rather than of things that happened to me when I was awake. It’s good preparation for being a writer, dreaming.”

—Writer Anna Della Subin, via an interview on The Creative Independent
WHAT WE SAVED, STARRED OR STILL HAVE OPEN IN OUR TABS
A moving image work, titled Dream Study (Hibernation), by Kamil Franko via BOMB Magazine. "My understanding of linear time suddenly took a different shape and it helped me begin thinking about the logic of dreams," writes Franko about the process of creating the video piece, "They make us experience dimensions beyond reality, bending in various ways and signifying something fundamental. Dreams are time."

Berlin-based dancer Anna Nowicka dives into her dreams in a new piece premiered at HAU yesterday. In Eye Sea, Nowicka works with Mor Demer and Katarzyna Wolinska to embody the images, textures and characters from their dreams and, in doing so, create a different kind of personal narrative. See additional dates here.

A new book illuminates the life and work of surrealist painter Gordon Onslow Ford. The youngest member of André Breton's surrealist group in Paris, Onslow Ford went on to spend over 50 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Edited by artist and scholar Fariba Bogzaran, who we interviewed earlier this year and was a friend of Onslow Ford, A Man on a Green Island surveys the painter's oeuvre and delves into his theory of the inner world.
SHOUT-OUTS TO...
Ana Šantl for reading our soon-to-be-published ONEIRIC.SPACE interview and responding to it with a series of stunning photos. Keep your eyes out for the piece in January 2020!

Laura Helena Wurth for inviting us to host a reading at Haus am Lützowplatz, as part of the public programming for the 'It was all a dream' exhibition that she curated. 

♥ As always, Studio Push for the logo as well as web design and development of our website + this newsletter you're reading now 
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P.S. You can always reply to this email to share any dream-related articles or projects you have in the works! We'd be happy to share it with our readers in the next issue.
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