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Up All Night Sleeping Project
Up All Night Sleeping is an interactive project that asks viewers to contribute their dreams to the installation. It deals with our collective dream life, and in creating an actual and visual record of it. Do you have recurring dreams? Do you always dream in a theme? Are you plagued with nightmares? Are you constantly swept away in daydreams?
Participants are invited to lie down in an enchanting twin canopy bed and dream away. The pillow talks to them, coaxing out their dreams. They can then write down their dreams on streamers and attach them above the bed. The canopy becomes filled with these ribbons of words, speaking about our collective sleeping life.
Some of these dreams are serious and intense, perhaps letting people relieve a burden in an anonymous situation. Others are silly and fun, some are perverse, and others still are filled with hope. The many facets of expression allow the audience to come away with a variety of emotional responses.
Tara Parsons has translated some of these dreams into drawings. These can be seen under “Works On Paper.”
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