The Fragment, An Artist Lecture on Sleep, Dreaming, and Memory
Thursday, April 10 | 6:30 – 8PM
In-person at InterAccess (32 Lisgar Street, Toronto)
FREE, register here
The Fragment is an artist book exploring how our present experience decomposes into the fragments that make up our memories and permeate into our dreams. Although dreams are populated with memory, the references to memories in our dreams never seem to be an exact copy but rather a series of fragments. The dream insists on building an entirely new world every time. This artist talk will consider the unique architecture of the dream environment and the everchanging distance between sleep and wake. The session will begin with a network of shared dream patterns created from attendees' recent dreams followed by readings from the artist book.
Attendees are encouraged to share recent dreams at the form below. Dreams collected until April 8th will be incorporated into the artist talk.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nelly Matorina is a video and installation artist, as well as a PhD Candidate in Psychology at the University of Toronto. Her work in both fields explores the intricate relationships between sleep, dreaming, and memory. Her recent artistic research explores the quantification of memory and dissociations between subjective and objective measures. Previous exhibitions include Modern Fuel Artist Run Center, Union Gallery, and SAW Video.