From Our Director: Caterina Fake’s "Bed For Dreaming"
- thebriarcombeinsti
- 5 days ago
- 2 min read
Our founder and director Caterina Fake has recently opened a new art show at The Jones Institute. There will be upcoming opportunities to visit and participate!
Bed for Dreaming invites its participants and celebrants to come and sleep in an ancient Chinese bed—sleep, and dream—and in dreaming, access the mysterious, the shadowed and otherworldly, the weird and the surprising. With luck they will have dreams to relate, or if their dream is fugitive or forgotten, create one using the dream objects there.
Art and dreaming are some of the last remaining activities undertaken with no particular use, for their own sake, in the shrinking category of the non-economic, for the sustenance of the heart and soul. But art and dreaming take their place alongside such noble pastimes as sleeping, caring for others, singing tunelessly, dancing non-professionally and praying without contributing to the collection plate. Even going for walks has become a positive wellness activity, producing higher performance and optimal outcomes, and “leisure” is a necessity of the non-machine, in contradistinction to the other, more honorable activity of 9-9-6 “work”.
Bed for Dreaming is a refuge from the modern condition, a metaphorical womb, snug in the unconditional positive regard of The Great Mother, a retreat into safety, ready to embark into the chthonic world of dreams, depth and obscurity.
After participating in the show, the dreamers are invited to write their dreams in a collective journal. When the show ends in late December, composer Ferran Martinez Miquel will compose music based on the dreams.
The Jones Institute is planning more events during the show, including a talk, a night of surrealist games, and a conver. Bed for Dreaming goes until the end of the year. If you would like a chance to join in Bed for Dreaming’s collective dreaming and imagining, please email us at thebriarcombeinstitute@gmail.com. Look out for the announcement for the next reception and upcoming events at The Jones Institute.
