At the Polo del '900, the immersive sound installation that collects the dreams of the world

On May 9 at 6 p.m., the first stage of Dreamscape, an immersive sound installation by Eva Frapiccini, a multimedia artist and researcher working on the relationships between memory, power and sociopolitical change, opens at the Polo del ’900 in Turin. It will be on view until May 24, 2023. From 3 to 6 p.m., the opening of the exhibition project will be preceded by the first part of the Public Program Dreamscape, (talks), organized by AlbumArte and Labont - Center for Ontology of the University of Turin. The second day of talks will take place on Friday, May 19, 2023 from 4 to 6:30 pm.

The traveling project, curated by Paola Ugolini and produced by AlbumArte, with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, from the Polo del ’900 in Turin, will move from June 7 to 12 to the Museo Madre in Naples and from July 6 to 16 to the Fondazione per la Cultura - Palazzo Ducale in Genoa (from July 14 to 16 as part of the Electropark Festival).

Dreamscape is the second phase of an international research project developed by Eva Frapiccini from 2011 to 2022 in which thousands of people from different areas of the world entered her Dreams’ Time Capsule to record the story of one of their dreams. Through this ethnographic research practice, Frapiccini extrapolated certain recurring themes, key words, archetypes, symbolic figures and common tensions.

“The purpose of the archiving was to carry out a utopian work, to reach out to people in different parts of the world to record their night dreams, to see if there were any common images, testing the Jungian collective unconscious. Over the years, during historical votes, pandemics, and national referendums, this call was answered by more than 2,300 people who entered the traveling facility in Bogota (Colombia), Cairo (Egypt), Stockholm and Fittja (Sweden), Genoa, Bergamo, and Turin (Italy), Potsdam and Berlin (Germany), Sharjah and Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Manama (Bahrain), Riga (Latvia), and Wakefield (United Kingdom),” the artist says.

A research project that resulted in 2022 in a video installation accompanied by a performance by Francesca Dibiase, Ilaria Quaglia and Valerie Tameu, choreographed by Daniele Ninarello, which gave visual concreteness and plasticity to the dreamlike matter. This year the artist has instead placed the practice oflistening at the center of the work, creating animmersive sound installation that requires the presence of the audience to be activated. In the dimly lit exhibition space, with unprecedented sound dramaturgy by sound artist Sara Berts, Dreamscape shifts the focus from distant viewing to an intimate yet collective participatory experience that reveals the universal dimension of the unconscious, as dreams transcend the cultures to which those who generate them belong. “One can say that the voices preserved in the archive belong to a suspended time, they are not in the past or future, they simply are, and they speak to us about something that is outside of time: the dream journey,” the artist says.

Dreamscape in the three stages of Turin, Naples and Genoa, will be enriched by a public program with workshops and talks, involving schools, universities and the inhabitants of these cities.

PUBLIC PROGRAM (TALKS) TORINO
Coordination: Marta Bracci, Elena Incingolo
In collaboration with Labont - Center for Ontology

The Public Program, organized by AlbumArte and Labont - Center for Ontology of the University of Turin, will be dedicated to an in-depth study of the correspondence between dream imaginaries collected in different areas of the world and the evocative role of dreams in visual and literary culture, and will take place in the Sala Novecento of the Polo del ’900, on two days: May 9 from 3 to 6 p.m. and May 19 from 4 to 6 p.m.30 with the participation of anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers and art critics (free admission).

May 9

Institutional greetings: Emiliano Paoletti director Polo del ’900 Torino and Francesca Gambetta Head of Mission Creating Attractiveness of the Culture Objective.
Speakers: Cristina Cobianchi (president AlbumArte and project manager of Dreamscape), Eva Frapiccini (artist and artistic director of Dreamscape), Alessandra Donati (professor University degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, lawyer of counsel in ADVANT Nctm), Giulia Palomba (Dust of Dreams project curator), Anna Daneri (curator, co-artistic director of Electropark festival) Davide Dal Sasso (Labont - University of Turin); Carola Barbero (University of Turin), Paola Ugolini (curator Fondazione InBetweenArtFilm and visiting professor IUAV of Venice, curator of Dreamscape).

May 19

Speakers Tiziana Andina (Labont - University of Turin), Arianna Cecconi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille), Diletta De Cristofaro (University of Northumbria), Lucrezia Cippitelli (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan) Vincenzo Santarcangelo (Accademia di Belle Arti Reggio Calabria), Federica Martini (HEAD, Geneva).

The scientific contributions collected during the Public Program, together with the visual and critical contents of the two years of the project, will be part of a dedicated publication, in Italian and English (September 2023).

Image: Eva Frapiccini - image taken from the previous work Dust of Dreams.

At the Polo del '900, the immersive sound installation that collects the dreams of the world

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