DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE, 2017
In The Immaterial Biography of Dreams I recount my dreams in a strictly descriptive manner—and in an attempted chronological order—to the rock I took from a public beach in the island of Lido di Venezia.
My impressions and insights about the dreams are written with black ink on an acrylic tray filled with water. If an inscription is a way to overcome time and memory, in this work this assumption is dissolved: by writing on water, I’m also dissolving language and memory. The transparency of the water becomes darker, full of insights that were inspired by what was revealed to—or born from—my imagination in the nights I dreamed. The water and my insights turn into one substance.
In Immaterial Biography I am the agent affecting a constant transference between the incorporeal substances of my dreams, the dissolution of writing/language, and the materiality of the rock, the metal quill, and the ink. Untold dreams and nightmares are spoken, transformed in sound frequency and emanated to the rock—a matter that pertains to the natural world for far longer than my existence.
Lido di Venezia itinerary
When the performance comes to an end, I wrap the rock in black velvet and carry it with me from the performance space to my hotel. Placing it on my pillow, I sleep and dream with my head over the wrapped rock. On the following day, I travel back to the beach in Lido. I unwrap the rock and place it close to the shore, over other rocks, where it will be washed by the sea when the tide is high.
SEARCHING THE ROCK
PERFORMANCE AT PALAZZO MORA
DREAMING ON THE ROCK
RETURNING THE ROCK TO LIDO DI VENEZIA – THE FINAL LANDSCAPE
CREDITS
Performance by Cristiane Bouger
Translation of the performance score into Italian by Giulia Mattera
Photography by Giorgia de Santi and Lorenza Cini
Photography in Lido di Venezia by Sabrina Bellenzier
The Immaterial Biography of Dreams was created in Venice, resulting from the convergence of my explorations of the city, the process developed during the workshop “Considering Time”, under the tuition of Marilyn Arsem, and from my personal interest in the material and immaterial qualities subscribed to this entire experience. The 4-hour durational performance was presented as part of Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1.
PERFORMANCES
VENICE, ITALY
2017 Venice International Performance Art Week
Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1
Palazzo Mora, Venice/December 16th, 2017
FUNDS
This performance was made possible through the funds of Umwelt Studio.
In The Immaterial Biography of Dreams I recount my dreams in a strictly descriptive manner—and in an attempted chronological order—to the rock I took from a public beach in the island of Lido di Venezia.
My impressions and insights about the dreams are written with black ink on an acrylic tray filled with water. If an inscription is a way to overcome time and memory, in this work this assumption is dissolved: by writing on water, I’m also dissolving language and memory. The transparency of the water becomes darker, full of insights that were inspired by what was revealed to—or born from—my imagination in the nights
I dreamed. The water and my insights turn into one substance.
In Immaterial Biography I am the agent affecting a constant transference between
the incorporeal substances of my dreams, the dissolution of writing/language, and the materiality of the rock, the metal quill, and the ink. Untold dreams and nightmares are spoken, transformed in sound frequency and emanated to the rock—a matter that pertains to the natural world for far longer than my existence.
When the performance comes to an end, I wrap the rock in black velvet and carry it with me from the performance space to my hotel. Placing it on my pillow, I sleep and dream with my head over the wrapped rock. On the following day, I travel back to the beach in Lido. I unwrap the rock and place it close to the shore, over other rocks, where it will be washed by the sea when the tide is high.
Performance by Cristiane Bouger
Translation of the performance score into Italian by Giulia Mattera
Photography by Giorgia de Santi and Lorenza Cini
Photography in Lido di Venezia by Sabrina Bellenzier
The Immaterial Biography of Dreams was created in Venice, resulting from the convergence of my explorations of the city, the process developed during the workshop “Considering Time”, under the tuition of Marilyn Arsem,
and from my personal interest in the material and immaterial qualities subscribed to this entire experience. The 4-hour durational performance was presented as part of Venice International Performance Art Week |
Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1.
VENICE, ITALY
2017 Venice International Performance Art Week
Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1
Palazzo Mora, Venice/December 16th, 2017
This performance was made possible through the funds of Umwelt Studio.
In The Immaterial Biography of Dreams I recount my dreams in
a strictly descriptive manner—and in an attempted chronological order—to the rock I took from a public beach in the island of Lido
di Venezia.
My impressions and insights about the dreams are written with black ink on an acrylic tray filled with water. If an inscription is a way to overcome time and memory, in this work this assumption
is dissolved: by writing on water, I’m also dissolving language and memory. The transparency of the water becomes darker, full of insights that were inspired by what was revealed to—or born from—my imagination in the nights I dreamed. The water and my insights turn into one substance.
In Immaterial Biography I am the agent affecting a constant transference between the incorporeal substances of my dreams,
the dissolution of writing/language, and the materiality of the rock, the metal quill, and the ink. Untold dreams and nightmares are spoken, transformed in sound frequency and emanated to the rock—a matter that pertains to the natural world for far longer than
my existence.
When the performance comes to an end, I wrap the rock in black velvet and carry it with me from the performance space to my hotel. Placing it on my pillow, I sleep and dream with my head over the wrapped rock. On the following day, I travel back to the beach in Lido. I unwrap the rock and place it close to the shore, over other rocks, where it will be washed by the sea when the tide is high.
In The Immaterial Biography of Dreams I recount my dreams in a strictly descriptive manner—and in an attempted chronological order—to the rock I took from a public beach in the island of Lido di Venezia.
My impressions and insights about the dreams are written with black ink on an acrylic tray filled with water. If an inscription is a way to overcome time and memory, in this work this assumption is dissolved: by writing on water, I’m also dissolving language and memory.
The transparency of the water becomes darker, full of insights that were inspired by what was revealed to—
or born from—my imagination in the nights I dreamed.
The water and my insights turn into one substance.
In Immaterial Biography I am the agent affecting a constant transference between the incorporeal substances of my dreams, the dissolution of writing/language, and the materiality of the rock, the metal quill, and the ink. Untold dreams and nightmares are spoken, transformed in sound frequency and emanated to the rock—a matter that pertains to the natural world for far longer than
my existence.
When the performance comes to an end, I wrap the rock in black velvet and carry it with me from the performance space to my hotel. Placing it on my pillow, I sleep and dream with my head over the wrapped rock. On the following day, I travel back to the beach in Lido. I unwrap the rock and place it close to the shore, over other rocks, where it will be washed by the sea when the tide is high.
DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE, 2017
In The Immaterial Biography of Dreams I recount my dreams in a strictly descriptive manner—and in an attempted chronological order—to the rock I took from a public beach in the island of Lido di Venezia.
My impressions and insights about the dreams are written with black ink on an acrylic tray filled with water. If an inscription is a way to overcome time and memory, in this work this assumption is dissolved: by writing on water, I’m also dissolving language and memory. The transparency of the water becomes darker, full of insights that were inspired by what was revealed to—or born from—my imagination in the nights I dreamed.
The water and my insights turn into one substance.
In Immaterial Biography I am the agent affecting a constant transference between the incorporeal substances of my dreams, the dissolution of writing/language, and the materiality of the rock, the metal quill, and the ink. Untold dreams and nightmares are spoken, transformed in sound frequency and emanated to the rock—a matter that pertains to the natural world for far longer than my existence.
Lido di Venezia itinerary
When the performance comes to an end, I wrap the rock in black velvet and carry it with me from the performance space to my hotel. Placing it on my pillow, I sleep and dream with my head over the wrapped rock. On the following day, I travel back to the beach in Lido. I unwrap the rock and place it close to the shore, over other rocks, where it will be washed by the sea when the tide is high.
SEARCHING THE ROCK
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1, Venice/Italy, 2017 Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory | Prologue 1,
Venice/Italy, 2017 | Photography by Cristiane Bouger
PERFORMANCE AT PALAZZO MORA
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1
Palazzo Mora, Venice/Italy, 2017
Photography by Giorgia de Santi
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1
Palazzo Mora, Venice/Italy, 2017
Photography by Lorenza Cini
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1
Palazzo Mora, Venice/Italy, 2017
Photography by Lorenza Cini
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1
Palazzo Mora, Venice/Italy, 2017
Photography by Lorenza Cini
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1
Palazzo Mora, Venice/Italy, 2017
Photography by Lorenza Cini
DREAMING ON THE ROCK
Venice International Performance Art Week | Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1
Hotel Room, Venice/Italy, 2017
Photography by Cristiane Bouger
RETURNING THE ROCK TO LIDO DI VENEZIA – THE FINAL LANDSCAPE
CREDITS
Performance by Cristiane Bouger
Translation of the performance score into Italian by Giulia Mattera
Photography by Giorgia de Santi and Lorenza Cini
Photography in Lido di Venezia by Sabrina Bellenzier
The Immaterial Biography of Dreams was created in Venice, resulting from the convergence of my explorations of the city, the process developed during the workshop “Considering Time”, under the tuition of Marilyn Arsem,
and from my personal interest in the material and immaterial qualities subscribed to this entire experience. The 4-hour durational performance was presented as part of Venice International Performance Art Week |
Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1.
PERFORMANCES
VENICE, ITALY
2017 Venice International Performance Art Week
Co-Creation Live Factory – Prologue 1
Palazzo Mora, Venice/December 16th, 2017
FUNDS
This performance was made possible through the funds of Umwelt Studio.