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A Dream on Lucids
Site-specific video installation (beaming table with video chandelier), 48’03’’
‘A dream on lucids’ is a feature-length documentary radioplay about the sect of lucid dreamers, who practice techniques of conscious sleepwalking in their joint lucid dream. This hybrid form of existence is an experiment in search of an answer to the fundamental question of why can't we live the way we want to.
The essence of confabulation is to relate fabricated events as though they had actually taken place in reality. Such a scenario is one that many would dismiss as lies, as something to be denounced, but this is a misguided attitude.
The work is based on our video archive, specifically the documentation of a nomadic trip in Finland from 2010. In this simulated lifestyle, working with art was as important in our daily routine as getting food. Revisiting these recordings, they seemed like staring into a utopia, something perfectly detached from the (then) contemporary nihilism in Hungary. Based on the fragments we used the technique of confabulation to analyze the contrast between these worlds.
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Cast + Thanks:
Female voice: Barbara Hegedűs (hungarian), Jessica Lea Miley (english)
Male voice: Gábor Erlich (hungarian, english)
Pit-man: Péter Tomaj
Anaesthetist: Viljami Wager
Camera-head: Lasse Poser
Whisperer chorus: Huba Cseley & Keve Cseley
Sleepwalking theme, Rebar harp: Marci Kristóf
Memory exersize theme: Histoire du Soldat, microsamples (Igor Stravinsky)
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Dóri Kangiszer, Ninni Wager, Viktor Kotun, Fanni Hegedűs, Janka Sulyok, István Szívós, István Csákány, Csaba Farkas
Female voice: Barbara Hegedűs (hungarian), Jessica Lea Miley (english)
Male voice: Gábor Erlich (hungarian, english)
Pit-man: Péter Tomaj
Anaesthetist: Viljami Wager
Camera-head: Lasse Poser
Whisperer chorus: Huba Cseley & Keve Cseley
Sleepwalking theme, Rebar harp: Marci Kristóf
Memory exersize theme: Histoire du Soldat, microsamples (Igor Stravinsky)
& :
Dóri Kangiszer, Ninni Wager, Viktor Kotun, Fanni Hegedűs, Janka Sulyok, István Szívós, István Csákány, Csaba Farkas
Exhibition history:
What ifs and why nots (OFF-biennale site), Documenta, Kassel, GER, 2022
Eyelids Mirrored Within, Tenderpixel, London, GB, 2019
Pieces made by artists in their sleep are dream-works, Kisterem, Budapest, Hungary, 2016
Related works:
Empathic Landscape
What ifs and why nots (OFF-biennale site), Documenta, Kassel, GER, 2022
Eyelids Mirrored Within, Tenderpixel, London, GB, 2019
Pieces made by artists in their sleep are dream-works, Kisterem, Budapest, Hungary, 2016
Related works:
Empathic Landscape