Independent Melbourne curatorial and production collective Cost of Horror present 'Dreams Never End', an exhibition showcasing 12 multidisciplinary artists as they explore and translate their dreamscapes.
A production of surrealism and theatrics, where lights, smoke, mirrors and art will guide you through the blurred paths of dreams and reality.
Stella Angelico
Five Chinese Monaco Bars
Performance
Stella's work is the culmination of dream records she has kept most of her life. Featured in her wok are songs, symbols and imagery which have reoccurred in her dreams three or more times. Stella has attempted to create this aesthetic dream tableau has free as possible from critical analysis. She hopes through the combining of visual elements and sound that the viewers will be moved and entertained by performance as it speaks to the invisible parts of the self; the subconscious in which dreams never end.
Sophie Ferris
A Diamond in a Bottle in the Sand
Pencil on Watercolour Paper
I watched as my hand disintegrated into a thousand pieces.
As the man running across the road broke into a thousand pixels.
I look down; my arm is covered in a thousand black abysses.
Chloe Grace
Rorschach 3
Acrylic, Ink and Watercolour
Destruction, count me out, I'm not going to live with hatred towards anything, I've seen what it does.
Toxic Times. As long as I have life, I have hope. Surrealism has a great effect on me, as I realised.
My imagery in my mind was not insanity...my vision is my reality.
Julian Hocking
Get Lost, GO AWAY and RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!
Linocut
We speak of the individual and the universe. But within the individual there is a universe as well.
Jesse Hogan
Eugene Aserinsky's 1952 Cinematic Analysis
Digital Inkjet on Bond Paper
Using a Venn diagram, I have constructed a map of the parallel realities that shape our thought patterns. Lived experience, memory, projections of the future, and the detritus of audio/visual stimulation. The latter occupies an ambiguous but important space in terms of differentiating between dreamt and lived realities. Of these, the cinematic experience has paralleled the modern concept of the dream. So much so that it seems to have had severe effects on the perception of memory and self projected fantasy.
From this ambiguity I was drawn to the frame-by-frame flicker of the VCR era. Like dreams cinema moves from time and place illogically especially with out the context of narrative.
To destroy narrative, which is a dependency of a waking mind, Photograph images of films playing on monitors that frequently resonate in the sub conscious construct. Use fading or degenerating processes as if the image has been dubbed and redubbed on a VCR so that it gets progressively grainier. But it isn't just degrading--random visual moments that plague the un-conscious. Use the images from different films to merge overlap and fade, each copy so that it begins to aggressively overwhelm the original source, in a way that is almost, ugly, violent, electronic, and builds dramatically like the layers of sign, symbols and sequence in a dream. By the end of the process the video Images become assaultive, almost scary in its sense of total abject breakdown. The piece shows the unintended consequences of mechanical reproduction and data transmission like memory that is supposed to be seamless, but when taken to an extreme conclusion is vague and inaccurate, so that it actually feels toxic. In other words, Art reveals a dark side to technology that like our dreams and our reality has been there all along.
Anna MacKenzie
A Cognitive Dream Experiment
Digital Photographs
Cognitive theorists argue that dreams are a form of information processing, or mental work,
in which we sort through all the information collected throughout the day. We dream about
daily issues, problems, and relationships. Dreams help us to solve problems, work with
information, and think. This experiment was a personal study, an attempt to control dream
experiences. For the month of January, I put together a series of images and placed them
on my wall above my bed. A collection of photographs I had taken aimed to stimulate
my thoughts throughout the day and before I slept. During this project I explored all the
fundamental components that would make up my ideal dream. Familiarity, comforts,
metaphors, past memories - just to name a few.
Pat McBain
Recurring Cheese Dreams
Mini DV, Digital Stills & Projections
Running time 3:30
In 2005 the British Cheese Board conducted an experiment in which they asked a number of volunteers to eat 30 grams of cheese about half an hour before they went to bed, then monitored the effect cheese supposedly has on dreams. The results were varied, but all had the same outcome - cheese provided imaginative dreams. With this study as an example, I embarked on an experiment of my own.
"Last night I had a dream that you gave birth to an avocado seed on a beach but I had to kill all the other avocado seeds that were buried in the sand."
Jake Moore
Obscotch - Cycles
Audio Recording
When I was very young I used to have reoccurring dreams, often when very sick, of a large eagle, similar to those found on Nazi and American flags. It seemed to be so vast as if it went on forever; but flat, with it's wings spread and it's head side on. So large in fact it appeared as a huge wall in front of me, as I floated in front of it. It's large eye a rotating disc of red and white in a spiral, slowly spinning and sucking me in. Sometimes I would feel as though I was lying on the ceiling looking down, with the ceiling fan's blades slowly spinning under me. As they go past they make a slow "whoom, whoom, whoom" sound, like cars passing by.
Elwyn Murray
I've Been to Paradise and You Weren't There
Permanent Marker and Polypropylene
Sometimes, in the right light, you look like someone i know.
Other times i don't want to look at all.
But every time, I recognise you on the way out.
Jake Treacy
The Messenger
Digital Photographs
River. Two Paths. Stranger. Chase. Sun. Gun Shot. Blinded. Bird. Blood. Message.
May Tusler
Waking Dreams
Digital Projection, 8mm Ektachrome Film
A candy-coloured clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes into my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
"Go to sleep. Everything is all right."
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