Eva Frapiccini /

Dreams' Time Capsule

[audio archive]

The mobile laboratory Dreams' Time Capsule offers to the city a temporary station where the public can listen to dreams as well as entrust their own in the form of a recording. It kick-starts its activities in Turin, only for this appointment the audio archive Dreams' Time Capsule has been developed in collaboration with the architect Marco Canevacci of Plastique Fantastique, a studio founded in 1999 in Berlin.

The mobile archive will appear in a number of squares and courtyards in different cities across Europe, and beyond. A long trip unfolding through different legs, lasting for just over one year, it will allow for the creation of an audio archive of dreams, which will be sealed in 2012 and re-opened by the artist together with a team of researchers only ten years later, in 2022. A performative work drawing its inspiration from dreams as traces of a collective imagery, Dreams' Time Capsule requires the partecipation and engagement of its visitors, whose testimonies of passage and oneiric experiences it will hold. It is an experiment to construct a cross- section of society and trace the evolution of dream states and of the memory of collective imagery.

Turin, Piazza Maria Teresa, November 3rd-6th 2011 in collaboration with Marco Canevacci / Plastique Fantastique curated by Elisa Tosoni