October 11 – January 19, 2024
At Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen in cooperation with KHM Art Sponsorship Award for FLINTA* 2024.
Audiovisual installation in collaboration with the video artists Tati Cuoco and Alice Daneluzzo. The installation unfolds in three spaces, representing different states of embodiment through simple gestures that acquire intensity in repetition and contemplation. It is an attempt to turn our gaze around, turn our eyes inwards and activate listening. atmoon (atmen + moon) invites us to become a spacious, breathing ear, listening for unexpected sensations, to perceive the body as a fragile landscape of memory.
An ongoing artistic research project that can take various forms, including workshops, installations, and dream concerts. The project focuses on the ideas of dream listening, dream translation, and oneiric cartographies.
Waking up and how to hypnopomp: the when, the why, the how and more.
#dream #sleep #wakeup #hypnopompic #transition #inbetween
Many contemporary artistic subcultures are inspired by the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep, aka hypnagogia. There's a whole musical microgenre called hypnagogic pop which “refracts pop music through the memory of a memory” (Keenan, The Wire, 2009). Hypnagogic pop paved the way for vaporwave and its branch genres, which influence modern popular music to this day. Even if that doesn’t ring a bell, the term hypnagogia isn't that unusual; it's likely that you've heard it in some context before. Its counterpart, hypnopompia - the state of consciousness leading out of sleep - is much less present in contemporary culture though. And that is perhaps one of the reasons why it's the subject of Tatiana Heuman's ongoing research.
Hypnopompia and hypnagogia are often conflated, although they are in some ways opposites. During the hypnopompic state, one's dreams return and often mix with one another, whereas things we’re aware of during the hypnagogic state often make their way into our dreams. Hypnopompia is the “moment in which I am not sleeping anymore, but I am also not fully awake.” In her artwork and accompanying writings, Tatiana Heuman explores how and why this state is often overlooked, skipped and rarely experienced by many of us. Her texts and research reach quite far back, to the start of the industrial era, in order to explore why we wake up when we wake up, and continue to explore different elements of “waking up” through a series of musings, open-ended questions, observations and questionnaires.
Tatiana Heuman questions fundamental assumptions and digs deep to explore what getting up “on time” means. She asserts that waking up at a certain designated time is a feature of industrial society motivated by economic growth and the need for effective labor. As technology developed, we’ve devised more subtle and subversive ways of not only waking up, but also sleeping. Nowadays, sleep trackers provide us with information about the quality and depth of our sleep. Are these advancements here for our wellbeing, or for the efficacy of our work?
After asking ourselves these - and many other - questions, we are invited to “stay in bed for a couple more minutes and start slow” with the aid of several exercises prepared by Tatiana Heuman. The four videos and three texts are an introductory guide on “How to Hypnopomp,” and a gentler way of transiting through this particular state. We are encouraged to devote some time to exploring our first movements, to reviewing dream extracts, to listen inwardly and outwardly, to develop a habit of starting to perceive slowly, and to document our daily hypnopompic states, experiences, exercises and rituals. Recalling or imagining a dream you dreamt and creating your own soundtrack for it, or reacting to your favorite scent with your whole body; these exercises aren't just here to exercise our mind and analyze our dreams, but also to help us imagine different, slower, more natural modes of operation at a societal level. It's beautiful, and all it takes is two minutes of your time.
Annotation by Adam Badí Donoval
experience HERE
You would not be just an ornament
#dream #sleep #wakeup #rest #reality #ambient #radio #spoken word
It is possible to access new interpretations of the urgencies of the current reality through rest. Dreaming acts as an engine to continue when everything around seems to indicate that one of all ends is approaching.
Floating, hidden somewhere, appearing randomly, my dear dream,
Should I talk to you or about you? Because you seem to be a form of life, Have we talked too much about you, Have we talked too much with you?
I don't think so. Not enough.
So I imagine this possibility: talking to the dream as a concrete entity, a character, a body that can act just like me. I should invoke it to interrupt the productive and demanding everyday life. To awaken this assembled but paranoid creature in which threads of memories tangle and untangle. An unexpectedly alien intelligence, a precision mechanism nesting in the most elusive corridors of our intimacy.
Idea, edition, music: Tatiana Heuman
Dramaturgy: Guido Wertheimer
Artwork: Linfa
Voices (in order of apparition): Tatiana Heuman / Vareila Mairanga / Dieu Hao Do / Mariana Carvalho
The texts included in this piece come from these books and authors:
Un departamento en Urano by Paul B. Preciado
La inteligencia del sueño by Anne Dufourmantelle
Este es el momento exacto en el que el tiempo empieza a correr by Ana Llurba
24/7 Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
Recorded 01.08.2022 - 8.09.2022
Duration: 21:09
Co-produced by Lumpen Station
Supported by Ville de Bienne, Swisslos Kultur Kanton Bern
listen HERE