RECURRENT DREAM
AUDIO-VISUAL INSTALLATION
Recurrent Dream is an art installation in which the audience gets immersed inside an imaginary space created by four different dreams in constant looping.
The aim of this work is the creation of a virtual space, taking people completely out of the physical space and bringing them to a virtual one created by sound.
The installation itself consists of a hand-built box-like structure. The construction of the box is made with a wooden structure covered with two layers of fabric patches: the external layer with a color range from white to light beige and skin tones, and the inside layer is made of black fabric with a low percentage of transparency, aimed to bring darkness to the room.
INSIDE THE BOX, THERE ARE FOUR SCREENS, ONE ON EACH OF THE WALLS AND FOUR LOUDSPEAKERS, IN EACH OF THE CORNERS (SEE A GRAPH OF THE SETUP). EACH OF THE FOUR SCREENS PLAYS A VIDEO IN A LOOP AS LONG AS THE INSTALLATION IS ON. EACH OF THE VIDEOS HAS A DIFFERENT DURATION, WHICH KEEPS THEIR BEGINNINGS AND ENDS FROM MEETING EACH OTHER DURING A FOURTEEN HOURS LOOP, SO EACH TIME THE AUDIENCE ENTERS THE SPACE DURING THIS TIME, THERE IS A DIFFERENT PATTERN.
[...] we can find various literal meanings to this term in nowadays Japanese language, such as “interval”, “space”, “between” or “among”; but to understand this term better we could look into its uses within the ancient Japanese. In The Iwanami’s Dictionary of Early Terms we can find some specific references on how this term was used in the early language, with definitions such as “the natural distance between two or more things existing in a continuity” or “the natural pause or interval between two or more phenomena occurring continuously”.
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