Dreamscaping Territories Premiere
An audio experience for collective dreaming and futurescaping
This audio experience debuted at the Beyond Gravity Festival 2025 in Dortmund. It is now available online for everyone to do it at their own pace, at a place of their choice.
A dance festival open to experimentation, a long time art collaborator, a space for emerging practices. All of these together nurtured the creation of my new art research piece - Dreamscaping Territories. It shaped itself as an audio - a special track crafted with synergistic elements to support the power of imagination. It contains an inspiring voice script, and more importantly, a gentle binaural melody to facilitate a propitious consciousness state.
After all, I met Marlon Barrios Solano at the Science of Consciousness conference several years ago, and since then we have been cross-pollinating each other’s practices in the field of art & technology. This time, Marlon invited me to join a group residency in Dortmund, Germany, to explore the juxtaposition of AI technologies, performances, and discussions within a space where speculative futures, ancestral knowledge, and emerging technologies converge: The Tectonics of Otherness.
Beyond Gravity Festival proposed to us the theme “Decolonizing the Digital”, and my piece is an invitation to decolonize our imagination. In a world where our attention is extracted and our realities are curated by media, dreaming becomes a radical practice. Indigenous wisdom reminds us: dreams help create reality.
To change the world, we must first be able to imagine it.
We mostly don’t realize how our minds and our imagination have been restricted by what the movies, the news, and social media choose to show us as realities and futures. The realm of possibilities we access in our heads has been slowly colonized, as we go about navigating the busy contemporary daily life.
Sleep is often framed as unproductive time, and dreams as part of an inconsequential and time-wasting moment. The wisdom of Indigenous peoples tells us a very different story. Dreams have a role in creating reality. Our dream practices are powerful.
This audio piece invites us to dreamscape a unified land of thriving, unique and interconnected beings. Our dream is then witnessed and launched into the collective consciousness to resonate with the wider worlds, our future selves and descendants.
We held Dreamscaping sessions for small groups during the festival, laying on beanie bags, wearing headphones, with eye masks and essential oils for those who wanted. After each session, we did a round of sharing, starting with one short phrase or image drawn on a post it note by each person in the group. Common threads were found, and as a fun experience, made visible on a map we created on the wall during the event.
Somebody asked me if the map we created was the result. And no, it was just a way to continue the process, a little like letting out a bit of steam from a dish we’re cooking, or in this case letting out some artefacts from people’s minds. What is then the result? It is whatever opened inside each participant. Our minds are something personal, unique and private, but they also take part in a resonant dance with other minds - with a more collective consciousness.
Towards the end of the audio experience we are gently reminded: “You are connected to all the other unique, wonderful people going through this experience. At this moment in time, and also in the sessions that will happen in the future, and the ones that happened in the past. You recognise each other as dreamers, fellow weavers of imagined territories.”
To ensure many sessions can happen in the future, an online version is now available for anyone to join the dreamscape. There are four audio tracks to choose from. They have very minor differences, and any of them will provide you with the whole experience. Choose according to your inspiration of the moment. Here’s the link:
You’re invited to your own personal session at: https://dreamscaping.ju.mp
After your dreamscaping you’re welcome to share with us any part of your experience by sending audio notes to the project’s dedicated phone number. You can record your audio in any language you wish. Contributions might be quoted on our site, after being transcribed and translated, but we won’t publish your phone number or other personal details.
We hope you’ll enjoy the journey.
