DREAMLAB 2014
DREAMLAB Autumn 2014 edition is a series of short intensive workshops and experimental events, which through diverse practices, perspectives and approaches of communal dreaming explore the potentiality of communitas.
1. Bonnie B. Buckner: Communal Dreaming (29.9 10am–6pm; 30.9 10am–2pm)
2. Elke Van Compenhout: Swarms and Radical Ethics (30.9 3–6pm)
3. Petra Veber: What Do Images Want? (1.10 10am–6pm)
4. Mala Kline: Dream HOSTEL CII (3.–4.10 8pm)
In Communal Dreaming Bonnie Buckner shows us how we dream all the time and that every communal (public) image, story, situation or event can be read as a dream we dream in the present. She offers practical tools that enable us to read the messages of our individual or communal dreams and by responding to it’s necessity through our dreaming contribute to the unfolding of an alternative vision of oneself or ones community.
In Swarms and Radical Ethics Elke Van Compenhout with the help of her self-made Tarot of Hope deck invites the participants into a thought experiment that examines the power of rituals to transform an existing sense of community/communality and make us reinvent the rules of our togetherness.
In What Do Images Want? Petra Veber unfolds the image as a visual form of energy and a container of meaning. She shows us how we create meaning through the relation of images to what surrounds them. She gives tools to look attentively, read or write visually, through images and their relations, so that a thought unfolds as movement and in a non-linear way.
Bonnie B. Bucker, PhD (psychology), author of Dream Your Self into Being teaches business and creative professionals worldwide how to unlock their imaginations and unfold into their greatest versions of themselves. Using an ancient Kabbalistic lineage of dreaming and imagery techniques she has helped CEOs, politicians, small business owners, award-winning writers and filmmakers, working musicians and social entrepreneurs to overcome challenges and blocks to accomplish what they otherwise thought was impossible. A passionate believer that the business and creative process can be a path of powerful transformation, Bonnie enthusiastically endeavors to awaken the creative dynamism in individuals and reignite the potential of today’s workplaces.
Elke Van Compenhout is an artistic researcher, and coordinator of the international research center a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies). Formerly she worked as a free lance dramaturg and researcher on artistic research projects in Nadine (Brussels), paf (Reims), Tanzquartier Wien, kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Gasthuis (Amsterdam) and many other places. She was a critic for the newspaper De Standaard, the classical radio station Klara, and head editor of the performance magazine etcetera. As research coordinator of a.pass is in charge of long-term artistic research projects in the a.pass research center and for the public communication of research methodologies and results. In that framework she developed the long-term research project ‘Bureau d’Espoir‘ in a series of collaborative experimental formats, diving into ‘contemporary hope practices’ as potential motors for societal change and awareness.
Petra Veber is architect and set designer. She cofounded an independent theatrical institute E.P.I. CENTER. She was a visiting professor at The Ohio State University and is a member of DOS. As a set designer she participated in more than 90 performances, which toured extensively all over Europe and US. Her latest exhibitions include: solo exhibition space and time / Ljubljana Castle, 2010 exhibition DOS A group exhibition of set designers and costume designers, 2011 Who’s Afraid of religious Plecnik. Theatre Museum, Ljubljana. In the performances she works in the preparation of concepts, lighting design, costumes, stage director, designer and photographer. She has received numerous awards Awards, recently 2011 Golden Bird for achievement in scenography, 2013 Ksenija Hribar Award for scenography in dance works, 2013 Best performance award for performance EDEN, Festival Gibanica, 2013 Award Šelig for perofrmance Rokovnjači, 2013 Best performance award by public vote for performance The Chairs, festival ArtOkraina, St. Petersburg.
To apply to a workshop or event email: dreamlab.book@gmail.com
All activities and events take place in the city center of Ljubljana: Vosnjakova 4, 1000 Ljubljana