Dust of Dreams

“The project Dust of Dreams explores the languages of visual arts, music, dance and video with the multimedia and performance installation which is the development of the itinerant and participatory project Dreams’ Time Capsule.

The data analysis of the recordings, the artist extrapolates the most recurring words and images: the archive become a gateway to a boarder understanding of common fears and fantasies, shared worldwide. In the multi-channel installation, images are synchronized following a chromatic balance and a rhythm dictated by the music. […] The artistic perspective, able to ideate a synergic bond between visual, performing arts and music, brings that reflection closer to the Carl Jung’s one around the Collective Unconscious.
According to the great Swiss psychoanalyst, philosopher and anthropologist, the archetypes and myths that belongs to the whole of humanity finally emerge “in the dreams with collective content, with a quantity of symbolic material”. In the same way, the relentless construction of the dream archive by Frapiccini “expresses the relationship between the individual and the society, the private and the collective, highlighting the progressive states of anxiety and fragmentation in the contemporary global community”. It is interesting to note how Jung spoke of the dream as a ‘theatrical machine‘: “The dream is the theater where the dreamer is, at the same time, both the stage, the actor, the prompter, the stage manager, the manager, the author, the public and the critic”.”

[text by Anna Daneri, excerpt]