participatory project – Dreams' Time Capsule

Dreams’ Time Capsule in Sharjah, UAE

collecting point, Maraya Art Centre, Participatory Event, United Arab Emirates

The Dreams’ Time Capsule project was invited by the Maraya Art Centre to be installed at the Al Qasba area and the Al Majaz park in Sharjah in the UAE. The four-day-long event was curated by Alexandra MacGilp. As in the other locations, visitors stepped into the installation to share one of their own dreams. In total, from 22nd to 24th March and on 27th March, about 150 participants have participated in the project. In so doing, they contributed to expanding the audio archive (to date about 1470 dreams’ descriptions).

We want to thank all the collaborators: Alicia, Rode, Ruby, Vivien, and Ali. Our best greetings to the director Giuseppe Moscatello and the Maraya Art Centre staff who made it possible. Eva Frapiccini’s residency program in Sharjah was supported by FARE Milano in partnership with the Maraya Art Centre.

Dubai / Arab United Emirates

ArtDubai, collecting point, Dubai Art Week, Maraya Art Centre, Sikka16, United Arab Emirates

The Dreams’ Time Capsule project has been invited by the Maraya Art Centre for a two-days-long presentation at the SIKKA Art Fair in Dubai, during Art Dubai and the Art Week.

This year, the SIKKA Art Fair took place from 13th – 24th March, at the Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood, in Bur Dubai, the heart of the city.

The DTC project has been available for visitors on March 18th and 19th, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. More than 100 people have shared the space and contributed to the audio archive recording one of their dreams.

Many thanks to the fantastic team of the Maraya Art Centre, the curator Alexandra Helen Macgilp, the programme manager Dana Al Sadek, the director Giuseppe Moscatello, all the volunteers who helped during the 8 hours-long events, and the brilliant staff of the Sikka Art Fair. Thanks to everyone for helping us with the installation, the involvement of the public, and the communication of the event. A special thank to Fare Milano, which has supported Eva Frapiccini’s residency at the Maraya Art Centre, in Sharjah.

Below the events scheduled in the United Arab Emirates:

Eva Frapiccini Artist Talk – Dreams and Systems of Memory | 21st March 2016, 7 p.m. Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah. Speakers: Eva Frapiccini, Ph.D. researcher in Fine Arts, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, Janet Bellotto, Associate Dean College of Arts and Creative Enterprises, Zayed University, and Alexandra Helen Macgilp, curator of the Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah
Dreams’ Time Capsule project | 22nd – 24th March 2016, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m, Al Qasba, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah
Dreams’ Time Capsule project | 26th – 26th March 2016, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m, Al Majaz, Sharjah

Press: Architect, Dubai, March 2016

Links:

http://maraya.ae/index.php?r=events%2Fview&id=152
http://maraya.ae/index.php?r=events%2Fview&id=153

More information and pics are available also on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter: #dreamstimecapsule #sikka16 #dubaiculture #artdubai

This event has been supported by FARE Milan, Italy

more info: https://www.fmcca.it/it/residenze/

Dreams’ Time Capsule project shortlisted for the second International Award for Public Art

PRESS

The IAPA was established to increase visibility for public art internationally and is administered by the Institute for Public Art (based in Hong Kong) in collaboration with Forecast Public Art (USA) and Shanghai University (China). Over the past few months, the IAPA have reached out to artists, public art administrators, organisations, scholars, curators and aficionados around the world.

more info: Institute for Public Art; Public Art Archive, an online collection of the most impactful public artworks worldwide; Public Art Review

Dreams’ Time Capsule at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy

collecting point, Participatory Event

The Dreams’ Time Capsule project was hosted at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Rivoli in Italy, from June to September 2014.

Eva Frapiccini was invited to participate in the group exhibition Ritratto dell’ Artista da Giovane | Portrait of the artist as a Young (Wo)man, curated by Marcella Beccaria. The exhibition explored the remarkable development of contemporary art in Italy over the last ten years, and included 25 artists from the latest generations to be promoted by the museum thanks to the generous contribution of the Castello’s Friends. In the same exhibition, there was a selection of the work in progress Dream Diary, in which Frapiccini used some of the dreams from the Dreams Time Capsule project’s audio archive.

"Dreams' Time Capsule project" Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy, 2014

"Dreams' Time Capsule", "Dream Diary", Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy, 2014

"Dream Diary", Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy, 2014

selection of the series "Dream Diary", Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy, 2014

Ritratto dell’artista da giovane / Portrait of the Artist as a Young (Wo)Man

We Traders / Turin / Italy / Europe

collecting point, Participatory Event, Torino

Turin, May 15th, 2014

The itinerant exhibition We-Traders. Swapping Crisis for City connects initiatives by artists, designers, activists and many other citizens from five distinct European contexts. In Lisbon, Madrid, Toulouse, Turin and Berlin. The project was supported by the Goethe Institute.

Dreams’ Time Capsule by visual artist Eva Frapiccini was invited and hosted at the Toolbox – FabLab in Turin. The collection point was curated by Angelika Fitz and Rose Epple and co-curated by the curatorial collective a.titolo.

Artists invited: Stefano Boccalini, Andrea Caretto & Raffaella Spagna, Eva Frapiccini, Michelangelo Pistoletto.

More info: WE TRADERS

Interview for the Daily Tribune in Bahrain

PRESS

on 9 March the Daily Tribune, a daily newspaper of Bahrain wrote about the Dtc Project, at Pag. 7.

Daily Tribune

Pag. 7

Dreams’ Time Capsule in Riga, Latvia

Participatory Event

The Dreams’ Time Capsule project took place during the White Night Festival in Riga, on September 7th and 8th 2013 and it was open from 2pm to 3am on the 7th and then for the whole day on the 8th. The participatory event was produced by the kim? Contemporary Art Center and curated by Zane Onckule.

More than 260 people recorded their dreams at the festival (Dream is Sapne in Latvian). Dream encounters were recorded in Latvian, Russian, German, Chinese and English. We wish to thank all the volunteers who engaged in the process-based survey. Without their help during the days (and night), we could not have engaged with the audience, answered questions or gathered all of the data that we did. We would like to thank all of the dreamers that patiently waited in the queue to contribute their dreams, and the supportive staff of kim?, especially Zane Onckule and Laima Ruduša.

We are really glad for this successful stage of the project despite of the short time, the archive has engrossed of about 300 dream encounters, which will be sent back in 2021-22. Looking forward to having dreamers feedbacks to delivering phase!

LINKS: https://kim.lv/en/

PUBLICATION: https://www.academia.edu/6854286/Dreams_Time_Capsule_project_in_Riga_Latvia

PRESS: http://echogonewrong.com/2492/

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LINKS

kim? Contemporary Art Space: www.kim.lv

Press info:http://www.delfi.lv/kultura/news/culturenvironment/fotoreportaza-italu-maksliniece-baltaja-nakti-ieraksta-ridzinieku-sapnus.d?id=43634163—

Press: http://www.baltanakts.lv/2013/?page_id=360

Dreams’ Time Capsule in Bogotà, Colombia

collecting point, Participatory Event

By invitation of the Department of Arts & Design at the University Jorge Taleo in Bogotà, Colombia, the Dreams’ Time Capsule project was staged over two days, on August 26th and 27th 2013 at the university library.

The event was in doubt until a few days before the scheduled date, because the airline company temporarily lost the suitcase (with the installation in it) leaving it in Paris during the transfer from Turin to Bogotà. It took three weeks of frantic phone calls to get the suitcase and the inflatable installation inside it back. Our greetings during this episode go to Viviana, Sally and Oscar Munoz, and Diana from the residency Lugar a Dudas for their support during our journey in Colombia. We always remember “hay que tener fé!”

Following this, on August 26th, an event curated and organised by Professor Catalina Quijano and Dr Carolina Forero engaged with the audience and volunteers to inform participants about the purpose and process of the survey. The audience, composed of academics and non-academics, replied enthusiastically and contributed to the audio archive more than 114 dream testimonies.

On August 30th, there has also been a talk on dreams at the ADEPAC Association for Jungian Studies with Prof. Juan Carlos Alonso. http://www.adepac.org/inicio/eva-frapiccini-2/

Our personal greetings go to Graciela and Duque’s family for their kindness. Thanks to all participants, organisers and researchers. We really enjoyed the spirit of Colombia (in spite of all the difficulties we experienced because of the airline companies!)

installation at the Jorge Taleo University, Bogotà, Colombia

photo by Catalina Quijano

the collaborator, photo by Catalina Quijano

dreamer at the Jorge Taleo University, Bogotà, Colombia

DTC project at the Jorge Taleo University, Bogotà, Colombia

dreamer at the Jorge Taleo University, Bogotà, Colombia

photo by Catalina Quijano

dreamer at the Jorge Taleo University, Bogotà, Colombia

dreamer at the Jorge Taleo University, Bogotà, Colombia

David, dreamer at the Jorge Taleo University, Bogotà, Colombia

Stockholm’s Cahier

Publication

During the collecting point in Stockholm, we produced a small cahier to recount through images and words the collaboration wth Arkitekturmuseet, and the meetings with the city and our wonderful dreams’ donors.

You can download the Stockholm’s cahier (with texts by Magnus Ericson and Elisa Tosoni; images by Eva Frapiccini and Emma Friedriksson):

DOWNLOAD PDF

DTC project in Cairo, Egypt

Cairo, collecting point, Participatory Event

From 1st till 3rd July 2012, the Dreams’ Time Capsule project was hosted by The Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, curated by Alexandra Stock and Ania Szremski. Eva Frapiccini was artist-in-residence, under the support of the residency exchange program Resò (promoted by Crt Foundation and Piedmont Region), 2012.

Each day between 10 am and 8 pm, people were invited to enter the inflatable structure, to record their oneiric testimony: either a whole night time dream or a dream they do not understand.

In so doing, about 90 testimonies (in Egyptian, English and others languages) were collected and included in the audio archive: voices that will be preserved and given back to the donors in 2021, ten years from the beginning of the project.

Thanks to Mina Nosky, Dina Sfakaki, Alexandra Stock, Ania Szremski and William Welsh and all the staff of Townhouse Gallery for their invaluable support throughout the Cairo leg of the project!

We would like to thank also the Resò program team and all the institutions involved in the program: the Albertina Academy of Fine Art in Turin; Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art; CESAC Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee; Eco e Narciso; the Gai – Association for the Circuit of Young Italian Artists; Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; PAV – Parco Arte Vivente; Spinola Banna Art Foundation.

LINKS: The Townhouse Gallery

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