Dreams’ Time Capsule project

Dreams’ Time Capsule is a research and participatory project started in 2011. According to the Jungian concept of Collective Unconscious as a universal primordial system of images and ideas, the project is attempting to create a source to understand how the archetypes surfacing in dreams, through different religions, traditions, or geographical areas. The first step of the project consisted of a series of events where the visitors were invited to record by voice its dreams. An inflatable structure with a seashell-like appearance, whose structure has been specially designed by the artist in collaboration with designer Michele Tavano, its first phase of materialization of a process-based, it is also ideated to travel easily in a luggage, around the continents. The formula of a pop-up exhibition where the “time machine”, Time Capsule, in fact, travels to be installed in public realm. The installation is gently taking the public into an extraordinary spatial dimension, projecting him/her outside the immediate surroundings, stepping into a dimension characterized by deep feelings of lightness and intimacy: the perfect atmosphere for the visitor’s individual recording of his/her own testimonies and memories. The visitors are invited to donate their own dream - a dream that they remember, but they cannot understand. A performative work drawing its inspiration from dreams as traces of a collective imagery, Dreams’ Time Capsule requires the participation and engagement of its visitors, whose testimonies of oneiric experiences it collects. In 2020, after almost 10 years from the start of the project, each dream will be sent back to legitimate donors in order to permit them to understand it in the best way possible, thanks to distance of time. Dreams’ Time Capsule, thus takes the form of a dilated performance considering the role of time and the oneiric memory in our wake life. Until now, more than 2000 recordings were collected through Africa, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.