DreamsID. A series of artworks painted by Lockheart in collaboration with Sleep and Dreaming Researcher, Professor Mark Blagrove.
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-JL2
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Freud Museum, London; Royal Society of Arts and Manufacturing, London
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- September
- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
- URL
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https://dreamsid.com/gallery-of-dreams-and-artworks.html
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Dreams Illustrated and Discussed / Interpreted and Drawn is a collaborative Science Art project between Professor Mark Blagrove (Swansea University Sleep Lab) and Dr Julia Lockheart (UWTSD). Research questions address: a) Can the dream-sharing and the simultaneous production of the artwork increase empathy through eliciting conversations about the life circumstances of the dreamer; b) can the artwork facilitate active listening and engagement with the dreamer? c) Can the artwork, mounted and gifted to the dreamer, continue the eliciting of these conversations with friends and family beyond the original performance. DreamsID is a multi-layered performance, in which, across a one-hour period, a dream is told by the dreamer, listened to by the audience, discussed in relation to waking life experience with Blagrove. During the session Lockheart records the narrative shape of the dream in gouache and ink onto pages from Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), whilst simultaneously incorporating Freud’s text into the finished image. Ideas of painting onto a text are derived from the surrealists who used dreams scenarios and applied techniques such as collage and cut outs to develop automatic relationships between words and scenarios. These have influenced the DreamsID work into/onto Freud’s text. Lockheart and Blagrove have developed the hypothesis of a link between dreaming and empathy due to our investigations of the immediate and medium term effects of the discussions on the dreamer and on discussants. The discussion illustrates Freud’s free-association method, in that waking life memory sources for the dream are sought, but it does not have therapeutic intent, aside from having an empathic conversation based on the dream. Dissemination: 29 performances, including Freud Museum, London; Royal Society of Arts and Manufacturing, London; & globally via internet live performances (detailed in Part 2, contextual information); 8 exhibitions, including The Royal Institution.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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