What are we all doing together when we are sleeping? Dreaming is a phenomena that connects us through myth and the collective unconscious. It is a way of processing daily life and communicating that can inform our living and public life, though often lying dormant or not-remembered in our perception. There are residual dreams and there are big dreams, we often know the difference, but the act of sharing them opens a dynamic terrain of communal life and meaning that once informed decision making in public life, and still does in cultures on the edges of western societies. Influenced by the writings of Matthew Spellberg, and the relationship between dreaming and ancient systems of well-being and prophecy, I am creating an audio visual archive recording dreams as stories. Digging into this creative source as a social practice, I am talking with people who want to share a significant dream and recording them as a way of tapping into and weaving a collective language moving through us. 

In 2020 I was invited to participate in Women's Social Dreaming Matrix that was initially formed at Duke University by Susan Webb as part of Michael Klein's Institute for Social Choreography. Social Dreaming is a practice of sharing dreams and free association based on the pioneering research of Gordon Lawrence and developed in this context by psychiatrist and dancer Susan Webb. Dream Archive brings me back around to earlier studies of dreams and my interest in place, documentary forms and storytelling as a way to bend the world and allow the world to bend us.