Interactive Dreams (2009)
Project by Patrycja
Cudak
Dreams can be mysterious, sometimes horrible and pleasurable. They include elements of everyday experience, which often seem absurd. But you can influence your dreams if you learn how…
‘Interactive Dreams’ (2009) is an interactive video installation revealing actual dreams.
The project is built of 23 two-minute videos, based on real dreams. They seem nonsensical, absurd, dramatic or hilarious. Edited in a dreamlike style and linked together, they are designed for interactive projections. The user explores the space and touches particular points on the screen to ‘influence his or her dream’ and jump to another video. Therefore, the user, to some extent, is in control of what is seen.
According to Freud, dreams encode personal, unknown desires, fears or emotions. They involve elements of everyday experience, which because of 'dreamwork', can seem illogical or absurd. Contemporary studies show that one can be conscious of his or her dream and can even influence them, for example in so-called lucid dreams.
Pictures of the Installation at the exhibition 'Sideways Looks 2009' in Paintworks, Bristol:
The Poster:
Stills from the video:
Shower
Ketchup
Skeleton
Drill
Body
Poker
