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| Marko Krojač |
Friday, April 11, 2014
Saturday, April 5, 2014
The Book of Dreams
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| Photo by Marko Krojač |
The Book of Dreams
Digital
print and charcoal on canvas (4,30x1,90m)
Dreammachine
(variable size)
Original
book (19x24cm)
Installation
(variable size)
2008
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| Photo by Marko Krojač |
The making of The Book of Dreams by
interviewing people of New York City and by their writing of the statement
"I had a dream" in their native tongues.
What brought all those people over there
and what happened to their dreams in the process; I had a dream and I am still
dreaming, I had a dream and it has changed, I had a dream and it’s gone, there
is a multitude of traditions, faces and cultures and everybody dreams… about
things tangible and intangible, about injustice which is not undone and its
consequences which go on deforming things, about creative energy and its power
and working, or its extinguishing and disappearance…
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| Photo by Marko Krojač |
The
print, the drawing of a subjective vision of the sight of Manhattan from the
horse’s back (from the time of colonization?) made of copies of
hand-written words of today’s New York
City inhabitants who are saying "I had a dream" in their native
languages.
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| Photo by Marko Krojač |
Dreamachine a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli.
Created by Artist Brion Gysin and scientist Ian Sommerville in 1961. A
dreamachine is "viewed" with the eyes closed: the pulsating light
stimulates the optical nerve and alters the brain's electrical oscillations.
Its frequency range corresponds to alpha waves, electrical oscillations
normally present in the human brain while relaxing. The "viewer"
experiences increasingly bright, complex patterns of color behind their closed
eyelids. It is claimed that viewing a dreamachine allows one to enter a
hypnagogic, dreamlike state.
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| Photo by Marko Krojač |
* as a bonus, and with the courtesy of Youtube, Flicker, a film by Nick Sheehan
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