The Dream Mapping Project: Homo Homini Lupus: Exploring Aggression through Dreams
The Dream Mapping Project is a global artists collective which explores the realm of dreaming. Curated by Alisa Minyukova and produced by Dr. Kelly Bulkeley. DMP aims to bridge dream science with the creative process. Through our work we have discovered the language of dreams to point to what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious — ancestral memory and experience that is common to all humankind. Invited artists spend several days unraveling layers of a particular dream using analytic methods, explorations of symbolism, and improvisational interactive performance. Within this collaborative process the dreamscape itself sets the stage for anthropologically rich performative storytelling. This process has resulted in an ongoing series of collaborative art, film and performance works.
*This workshop includes a performance by Lanna Nasser and Michael Feigenbaum.
Alisa Minyukova is a Russian born artist, researcher and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. She is co-creator of the Dream Mapping Project which works to bridge dream science with the creative process resulting in an ongoing series of collaborative art, film and performance works. Her drawings, film and mixed media installations explore Slavic and Jewish mythology, symbols of the collective unconscious and that which is caste out of awareness. Her research covers the topics of memories, dreams, emigration, heritage and the loss thereof and the exploration of the human condition by way of ancestral memory. Her current creative focus is on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the collective memory of war.
Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., is a dream researcher, psychologist of religion, and author of numerous books on dreaming. He is director of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), a digital archive and search engine designed for open exploration. He earned a doctorate in Religion and Psychological Studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and a B.A. from Stanford University. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
The Dream Mapping Project is a global artists collective which explores the realm of dreaming. Curated by Alisa Minyukova and produced by Dr. Kelly Bulkeley. DMP aims to bridge dream science with the creative process. Through our work we have discovered the language of dreams to point to what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious — ancestral memory and experience that is common to all humankind. Invited artists spend several days unraveling layers of a particular dream using analytic methods, explorations of symbolism, and improvisational interactive performance. Within this collaborative process the dreamscape itself sets the stage for anthropologically rich performative storytelling. This process has resulted in an ongoing series of collaborative art, film and performance works.
*This workshop includes a performance by Lanna Nasser and Michael Feigenbaum.
Alisa Minyukova is a Russian born artist, researcher and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. She is co-creator of the Dream Mapping Project which works to bridge dream science with the creative process resulting in an ongoing series of collaborative art, film and performance works. Her drawings, film and mixed media installations explore Slavic and Jewish mythology, symbols of the collective unconscious and that which is caste out of awareness. Her research covers the topics of memories, dreams, emigration, heritage and the loss thereof and the exploration of the human condition by way of ancestral memory. Her current creative focus is on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the collective memory of war.
Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., is a dream researcher, psychologist of religion, and author of numerous books on dreaming. He is director of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), a digital archive and search engine designed for open exploration. He earned a doctorate in Religion and Psychological Studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and a B.A. from Stanford University. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
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