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DREAM ARCHIVE

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 their are big dreams, we often know the difference, but the act of sharing them opens a 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. Digging into this creative source as a social practice, I am talking with people who want to share a dream and recording them as a way of tapping into and weaving a collective language.

In 2020 I was invited to participate in women's social dreaming matrix that was formed at Duke University by Susan Webb as part of Michael Klein's Institute for Social Choreography, a practice of sharing dreams and free association. 

Influenced by the writings of Matthew Spellberg and the relationship to dreaming and ancient systems of well-being, for the individual and a culture, I am creating an audio visual archive recording dreams as stories.

“SOCIAL CHOREOGRAPHY PERMEATES THE TIGHTLY KNIT FABRIC OF SOCIALIZATION, FOR OTHER POTENTIAL REALITIES TO BE SENSED AND EXPERIENCED, AND FOR NEW RELATIONAL FIELDS AMONGST HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN TO BE FORGED. THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL CHOREOGRAPHY DEALS WITH THE UNCOVERING OF UNDERLYING SOCIAL RELATIONS AND PATTERNS – THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF THE SOCIAL – THROUGH EMBODIED PRACTICES, AND ALWAYS, ENGAGES THESE DYNAMICS FOR NEW SOCIAL CHOREOGRAPHIES TO EMERGE SIMULTANEOUSLY” — MICHAEL KLIËN

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 Dreamer: Emerson Archebald Katz - Three Headed Dog

Dreamer: Lizzie - When I Fly in. Nightmares

Copyright 2026 Susanne Cockrell

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