Opening: 2 juli 19:00 uur
A bubble bath, a consultation room, waves of fear.
Deadlike, on your back, arms next to your side or your stomach.
You are deaf in this world.
You are in another dimension now.
Is there something that keeps you awake?
When people can bomb one another, they can also walk the sky.
A cheap melody is playing on top of it.
Very ACOUSTIC.
Often doomed as nonsensical noise of a tired brain, The Room Around Me Dark proposes imagining and dreaming as medicine against the nightmare of reason, linearity and hierarchy within our waking life.
While dreaming, our minds move through imaginative landscapes. We find ways of recombining our waking reality in unlikely or even impossible formations, finding elasticity where the waking mind so often misses it. The dream space is unfettered by constraints of wakefulness, a thought on the edge of materialization. Messy, invading and visionary - revealing scraps of sounds, fragments of images and elusive emotions about what has been put to sleep by the colonial and capital producing monsters under our bed.
The Room Around me Dark invites you to fall asleep, express desires, and blend unconscious thought with radical imagination. Ki reconstructs the dream's infrastructure, guiding you to question its operative power and psychological engagement. The moment we fall into the void, the film of Jillissen holds the door by asking ourselves what keeps us awake. While tossing and turning, van goor allows the monstrosities of our current world to enter our most intimate space
and muddles the comfort of a bed. When the room around us turns dark, Mangindaan shows how entering other worlds is always at hand in the quiet of night. Van Dyck invites you to move through the space and gather messy, truthful fragments —as if waking up from a dream — of offerings, rituals, and desires.