fall :: 2012
:: In a multiphase project, I assumed the persona of Dr. Ursula Hausingfraus to interview people about their most recently remembered or most vivid dreams. The collected dreams interpreted and incorporated into a large multimedia project. ::
Dr. Ursula Hausingfraus is an internationally renowned Dream Collector and Analyst. At Manifest 2014 (Columbia College Chicago’s Annual Art Festival), Dr. Hausingfraus interviewed many attendees about their dreams as part of an ongoing research project Sometimes I Dream in Technicolor.
As Dr. Ursula Hausingfraus, I dressed in a white lab coat complete with pens in a pocket protector; armed with a laptop and voice recorder, I sat in a pop up office and conducted many interviews.
I asked participants to share their dreams, collecting data such as: their first name, age, the approximate date of the dream, the dream itself (who, what, where, when, and why), the most prevalent emotions in the dream, what they think the major symbols or imagery of the dream are, how they felt when they woke up, what they think it means, and anything else they can remember/think is significant.
At the end of the interview each contributor received a card with links to further information on the project, as well as a letterpress printed broadside–a token of thanks for participation in the project.
:: the collected dreams were incorporated into an accordion book. the imagery of each dream bleeds into the next, leading the viewer’s eye on a journey through the mingled dreamscape ::
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