Dreaming In Different Languages

Dreaming in Different Languages Kingsgate Gallery, London, 1996 architectural intervention, secreted dream transcripts and translations Dreaming in Different Languages combined an architectural intervention with dream texts and translations. Texts were secreted in a space between existing walls and their mimetic (constructed) counterpart. The texts formed the rungs of a dream ladder, a tall white box running from floor to ceiling from which dreams could be taken and read at wall mounted lecterns. To remember a dream and write it down corresponds to a form of redreaming. Lecterns offered the viewer the chance to stand between dream transcript and its (English) translation while the altered architecture, in mirroring and echoing walls and details, afforded an ambiguous space appropriate to dreams presented as surrogate pictures. Image 1. Architectural intervention / gallery before installation .jpg