How do you describe your dreams? When you continue to share your stories with others in what ways do they change, evolve, and shift based on each retelling? In conjunction with Creativity Lab: Art of the Book, this writing-based workshop invites participants to explore Surrealist approaches to collective storytelling and the exploration of our dreams.
Inspired by artist Chang Yuchen’s interactive installation, In a Dream We Pictured a Book, Yuchen will facilitate choreographed writing and spoken exercises of tangential translations using word and image to transcribe dreams. Participants will uncover the potential of communicative exchange, learning how to create new meaning from unexpected encounters and collaborative storytelling.
Recommended for adults and teens. Space is limited and RSVP is required.
Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner—writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment, and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds. Her ongoing project Coral Dictionary is a writing system based on coral debris. Through translating visually, associatively, and emotively, a feral literacy takes shape. Yuchen is also an advocate for the art of her mother, Jin Mei.
Accessibility
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The entrance to the Creativity Lab has a power-assist door. Seating options include chairs with backs.
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Major funding is provided by the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund, and the Annual Education Fund.