Dream-In Artist-Facilitators

 

 

drawing by Candice Lin

 

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Experimental Dreaming Workshops

Claire Cronin - Experimental Yoga Nidra

 

Gather together to be led into a state of deeply restorative rest and communion with the divine.  participants will lay on the ground and passively follow a guided visualization aimed to bring them into a state of yogic sleep. It is said that through yoga nidra, a yogi can purify her karma, travel astrally, and become aware of future lives. Though these are not guaranteed outcomes, a peaceful experience is predicted. Please bring a blanket, pillow, or sleeping bag so that you will be comfortable lying on the ground during the meditation.

 

claire cronin makes pictures, objects, performances, and songs. her work is usually an attempt to contact psychic worlds and express religious longing. in her past life, she was a monastic in a very strict order of ascetic nuns. she was born in the 80's and lives in los angeles.

 

http://clairecronin.com

 

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Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc. - The Dream Act

We will lead participants through relaxation, guided visualization, and into collaborative dreaming that culminates in collective action. Participants should bring a mat or sleeping bag to lie on.

 

Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc. (Steven L. Anderson & Tom McKenzie) is a Los Angeles-based firm that provides experiential assessments into the relationships between institutions, the public, and the natural sphere. Our firm's combined accomplishments in the fields of activism, art, design, new-age physical therapy, non-profit administration, publishing, psychedelics, sailing, and theater enable us to offer our clients a sensitive, multi-dimensional approach. We excel by putting our queer shoulder to the wheel.

 

http://ecstaticenergy.com
http://www.StevenLAnderson.com/art.html

 

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Katie Bachler - Lucid Dreaming

 

What would a geography for our dreams look like? By mapping the neural spaces/physical places we have been whilst sleeping, we will create a template for lucid dreaming. A group hypnotism and imagined journey will lead to an awareness of our dream-states. Participants should be prepared to exist in a state between sleep and wake. Please bring blankets or sleeping bags to lie on, and a special meaningful object to bring into the dream world. This will be a connective tissue between sleep and wake, a familiar touch.

 

katie bachler dreams of the same geographical locations again and again, freeway interchanges and yellowing linear hills. She teaches young people in LA to map their dreams and paint their futures. She is fascinated with mountains and the way things change. Katie holds a masters in art in the public realm from usc.

 

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Krystal Krunch - Dreaming the Invisible Body Politic

 

Lie back and relax as this workshop takes you on a dream quest into the subconscious to find out where we are, if we are, politically, beneath the language of the everyday. Are we on common ground? Is there a collective potential? Where is our political will? Is it going, going, gone, drifting, disconnected from the visible body, or is it attached like a shadow at heel? Steep yourself in the netherworld of the group psyche and come back with a stone or two to lob into an invisible pool of ideas that we will create together in our dream and meditative state. Bring a blanket or a towel, and perhaps some water for yourself, as we go on a guided meditation created by the intuitive artist duo Krystal Krunch of Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka.

 

Krystal Krunch (aka Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka) is a duo of artist intuitives who see and respond to energy in the body, the psyche, and architectural spaces.

 

http://krystalkrunch.blogspot.com

 

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Laura Steenberge - The Interpolation of Dreams

There is a chasm that divides our sleeping selves and waking selves.  A rickety suspension bridge connects one side to the other.  Crossing it is like waking up. Or perhaps awakeness is like a bathtub filled with water with bath toys floating on the surface, and dreaming is like an empty bathtub in which the toys can be stacked in vertical columns.  What is happening when we sense that we are waking up?  Are we crossing a bridge, is water beginning to fill up a tub, is our dream self falling asleep? What is happening when we can feel a dream slipping away?  Must our waking selves assign words to the memories of our dreams in order to remember them?  Does the act of describing a dream with language alter the dream?  What does the failure to accurately describe dreams reveal about the mind? Participants should bring with them a writing utensil and something to write on.

 

Laura Steenberge is a performer, musician, and linguist who has lived in Los Angeles for the past 10 years.  She is interested in how the words we use are connected to the thoughts we think.  The first word she ever made up was 'crinst', possibly because she used Crest toothpaste growing up.

 

http://laurasteenberge.wordpress.com

 

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Marc Herbst - Dream Acrobatics

You will fly through the air with the support of either single or multiple partners.
This will approximate the architecture for collective dreaming. You will talk.
I will be the rock in an otherwise smooth spot.
There are no dreams, only collective realities.
Please bring floor mats and sleeping bags for padding.

 

Marc Herbst is an artist and thinker who lives in a house with two others in Los Angeles.
He has recently been involved with the movement to make the University of California free of charge.
Occupy Everything.

 

http://marcherbst.net

 

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Bedtime Storytellers

Amanda Yates - Calling Down the Ghost of Gracie Lou

The spirit of a dog searches for the Lost Cock of Rock, and finds instead that she is an ancient Goddess from Egypt.

 

Amanda Yates is a writer, artist, and educator based in Los Angeles. Her work revolves around themes related to mythology, selfhood, and urban landscape.

 

Joshua Beckman will be sharing poems with people to read privately while they go to sleep.

 

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of six books, including Take It (Wave Books, 2009), Shake and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Poker by Tomaz Salamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.

 

http://wavepoetry.com/authors/31-joshua-beckman

 

 

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Sound & Music

b.y.o.f.f. (bring your own fresh fruit/be your own femme fatale/insert yours here) is an all female acoustic band from the Los Angeles vicinity. Presently there are 7 members, but who's counting? Anyone can join in for the fun: bang a drum, strum a ukulele, or just sing along. We hope to give the girl who's always watched her brothers steal the stage, a chance to rock out with her cock out.

 

 

Moon is a performing combination of Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, and Julia Holter. Many people don't realize this when they look up into the sky every night, but it is true.

 

 

Clay Chaplin & Aaron Drake will present sounds indicating specific times related to the prayer of various cultures throughout the Dream-In evening and morning. The following day during museum hours, they will present a mash-up of Dream-In sounds and interviews in the Hammer Courtyard.

 

 

Claire Cronin will be playing songs recently written as part of the artSpa energy assessment of the Hammer by psychically-channeling the voices of various galleries.

 

see above for bio

 

 

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Dream Reenactments by Gawdafful Theater

 

Gawdafful Theater is a collective of psychonautic actors who attempt to liberate emotion from language and perform this dislocation. Members performing at the Dream-In are Mariel Carranza, Claire Cronin, Simone Gad and Candice Lin. Asher Hartman will be directing this performance which will occur throughout the day.  (Pictured below is Seema Kapur)

 

 

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Organizers

Adam Overton is an artist, composer, performer, massage therapist, teacher, and artSpa enthusiast living in Los Angeles.

 

 

http://plus1plus1plus.org/artSpa

 

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Machine Project, directed by Mark Allen, is a non-profit community space in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles investigating art, technology, natural history, science, music, literature, and food. In our Echo Park storefront, we produce events, workshops, and site-specific installations using hands-on engagement to make rarefied knowledge accessible.

 

Machine Project is currently artist-in-residence at the Hammer Museum, and is leading a yearlong series of artist-led interventions at the Hammer as part of the museum's new Public Engagement Program.

 

http://machineproject.com
http://hammer.ucla.edu/residencies/detail/residency_id/14

 

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The Hammer Museum explores the capacity of art to impact and illuminate our lives. Through its collections, exhibitions and programs, the Hammer examines the depth and diversity of artistic expression through the centuries with a special emphasis on art of our time. At the core of the Hammer's mission is the recognition that artists play a crucial role in all aspects of human experience. The Hammer advances UCLA’s mission by contributing to the intellectual life of the University and the world beyond.

 

Special thanks to Elizabeth Cline, Allison Agsten, Ali Subotnick, Amanda Law, Jim Fetterley and the many other Hammer staff who helped make the Dream-In possible.

 

 

Thanks to Tanya Rubbak for her therapeutic design counseling.
Thanks also to Marianne Williams and Ann Hadlock for help with documentation.