✾ is an experimental research and publishing project that reflects on the porous boundaries between nightly dreams and waking life.
ONEIRIC SPACE was initiated by Charmaine Li, and launched as an online interview publication in 2019 in collaboration with Effie Efthymiadi. It has since grown into a newsletter series, artist’s book, participatory readings, and collaborative events.
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✾ the breath of water and wind —
a site-responsive participatory reading offering space to turn inward, reflect on dream landscapes and look deeply into the other-than-human worlds around us, as part of Naive Yearly 📍 The Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubjlana, Slovenia 🔖
Project initiated at Est-Nord-Est and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
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✾ Dream Spiral with 0ct0p0s/Nick Koppenhagen, as part of non-linear constructions, organized by Monika Dorniak 📍Insola and Dammweg in Berlin
✬ Canada Council for the Arts, Research & Creation – project grant
✬ Author-in-Residence at Est-Nord-Est, residence d’artistes 📍Saint Jean Port Joli, QC, Canada
✾ Wading Thru Dreams, 2gether – a participatory reading that opens up space to rest and reflect on how dreams intertwine with individual and collective waking realities. Set to sound and scent to awaken the senses, the format questions the traditional public reading, often directed at the brain while ignoring the body in space. Through a grounding exercise, short readings, and contemplative exercises, the session hovers between a performative reading, workshop, and installation.
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✏ [NEWSLETTER] Circulations (@ Sunrise) 004: “dreaming offers a different orientation to the world” —a conversation with scholar Sharon Sliwinski
✾ fluid as melting ice – a Guided Session on 0ct0p0s’s dreamXchange that invited participantes to consider “non-interpretative” approaches to dreams and unfold dream memories through a series of collaborative online experiments📍Discord
✾ ‘Wading Thru Dreams, 2gether’ – a participatory reading
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✏ [ARTIST’S BOOK] ‘Dream Matter’ is a publication interspersed with simple prompts for considering the intricate relationship between nightly dreams and waking life. Pages can also be unfolded to reveal excerpts from ONEIRIC SPACE interviews with artists, researchers, or practitioners, opening up a space for voices to mingle and dialogue with the reader’s own experiences 📍available at Printed Matter or DM
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✏ [NEWSLETTER] Circulations (@ Sunrise) 003: “dreaming as a mode of associative thought” —a conversation with artist and researcher Mina Heydari-Waite
✬ Residency at Künstlerdorf Schöppingen📍Schöppingen, Germany)
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✏ [NEWSLETTER] Circulations (@ Sunrise) 002: “a way for our ancestors to communicate with us” —a conversation with writer, poet, and healer Goitseone Montsho
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✏ 【NEWSLETTER】 Circulations (@ Sunrise) 001: “an oral storystelling practice that belongs to everyone” —a conversation with writer and artist Manisha Anjali
✏ Museum of Dreams: An interview with artist Bongsu Park about the Korean tradition of buying and selling dreams
✏ 【NEWSLETTER】 Introduction to ‘Circulations (@ Sunrise)’, a series exploring forms of dream-sharing and how they’re entangled with aspects of social, cultural, and political life. What happens when dreams extend beyond our private worlds and connect with other dreams? Can sharing slivers of dream life with others deepen our understanding of larger patterns? We examine these questions, and others, through conversations and experiments with artists, researchers, and practitioners at sunrise, in an attempt to meet the rhythms of the dreaming mind.
✏ 【NEWSLETTER】 Guest-curated newsletter digest by writer and editor Jeanette Pang Ru Yan
⦿ Interview for CLOT Magazine feature
✾ DADDY x ONEIRIC.SPACE co-hosted DREAMSCAPES, an evening of readings, screenings and discussions to celebrate DADDY’s 5-year anniversary and the launch of the Dreams Issue. We facilitated a conversation-slash-storytelling session with poet Sailesh Naidu and artist Sarah Martinus about how dreams can act as an avenue for imagining new futures at 📍 Callie’s in Berlin
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✬ Residency at Muzeum Susch / Temporars Susch 📍Susch, Switzerland
✏ Muzeum Susch’s Magazine #2: A conversation with artist Itziar Okariz and curator Sandra Bradvic on open-ended approaches to engaging with dreams and envisioning new modes of learning
✏ The Creative Independent: A guide on starting (and keeping) a dream journal
✾ ONEIRIC.SPACE hosted an ‘Anxiety Release Reading’ in the frame of the ‘It was all a dream’ exhibition, curated by Laura Helena Wurth. In the lead up to the reading, we collected anonymous dream accounts where the prevailing feeling was ‘anxiety’. To explore the various shades of anxiety in a physical space, we read a selection of dream submissions. We also invited four guests from various disciplines to reflect on the topic of anxiety and anxiety dreams: artist and scientist Mert Akbal; historian and writer Edna Bonhomme; poet and printer Nadia Marcus; and photographer Charmaine de Heij 📍 Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin
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✏ Taupe Magazine: Dream Chromatics
⦿ 032c x ONEIRIC SPACE: Jungian Psychoanalyst Jakob Lusensky on the Therapeutic Value of Dreams
⦿ Featured on:
✾ Launched www.oneiric.space with readings and a conversation with dancer and choreographer Anna Nowicka about how embodying dreams through movement can start a dialogue between our dreaming and waking realities. The publication released five interviews with: artist Oana Tudoran, Jungian psychoanalyst Jakob Lusensky, artist and scholar Fariba Bogzaran, photography duo Synchrodogs, and 3D designer Studio Brasch 📍 The Black Lodge in Berlin
✏ www.oneiric.space launches as an online publication featuring intimate conversations about dream life with individuals from the realms of art, science, psychology and design. To mirror the idiosyncratic nature of dream experiences, each interview was designed to correspond to the content of the conversation and the dream-related material provided by the interviewee. The logo, website, and interviews were designed and developed by Studio Push.
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Project initiated at Est-Nord-Est and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
✾ Dream Spiral with 0ct0p0s/Nick Koppenhagen, as part of non-linear constructions, organized by Monika Dorniak 📍Insola and Dammweg in Berlin
✬ Canada Council for the Arts, Research & Creation – project grant
✬ Author-in-Residence at Est-Nord-Est, residence d’artistes 📍Saint Jean Port Joli, QC, Canada
✾ Wading Thru Dreams, 2gether – a participatory reading that opens up space to rest and reflect on how dreams intertwine with individual and collective waking realities. Set to sound and scent to awaken the senses, the format questions the traditional public reading, often directed at the brain while ignoring the body in space. Through a grounding exercise, short readings, and contemplative exercises, the session hovers between a performative reading, workshop, and installation.
⤳ In the frame of ‘There has to be smth in the room’ exhibition, curated by Alžběta Čermáková 📍 ACUD Galerie in Berlin 🔖
⤳ With Siestaria, in the frame of the Vorspiel program📍 kwia in Berlin 🔖
✏ [NEWSLETTER] Circulations (@ Sunrise) 004: “dreaming offers a different orientation to the world” —a conversation with scholar Sharon Sliwinski
✾ fluid as melting ice – a Guided Session on 0ct0p0s’s dreamXchange that invited participantes to consider “non-interpretative” approaches to dreams and unfold dream memories through a series of collaborative online experiments📍Discord
✾ ‘Wading Thru Dreams, 2gether’ – a participatory reading
⤳ As part of the Denkfabrik program📍Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature in Münster
⤳ As part of the Curating for Advanced Practices (CAP) Program, titled ‘Beyond Literature’ 📍Künstlerdorf Schöppingen in Schöppingen
✏ [ARTIST’S BOOK] ‘Dream Matter’ is a publication interspersed with simple prompts for considering the intricate relationship between nightly dreams and waking life. Pages can also be unfolded to reveal excerpts from ONEIRIC SPACE interviews with artists, researchers, or practitioners, opening up a space for voices to mingle and dialogue with the reader’s own experiences 📍available at Printed Matter or DM
✏ [NEWSLETTER] Circulations (@ Sunrise) 003: “dreaming as a mode of associative thought” —a conversation with artist and researcher Mina Heydari-Waite
✬ Residency at Künstlerdorf Schöppingen📍Schöppingen, Germany)
✏ [NEWSLETTER] Circulations (@ Sunrise) 002: “a way for our ancestors to communicate with us” —a conversation with writer, poet, and healer Goitseone Montsho
✏ 【NEWSLETTER】 Circulations (@ Sunrise) 001: “an oral storystelling practice that belongs to everyone” —a conversation with writer and artist Manisha Anjali
✏ Museum of Dreams: An interview with artist Bongsu Park about the Korean tradition of buying and selling dreams
✏ 【NEWSLETTER】 Introduction to ‘Circulations (@ Sunrise)’, a series exploring forms of dream-sharing and how they’re entangled with aspects of social, cultural, and political life. What happens when dreams extend beyond our private worlds and connect with other dreams? Can sharing slivers of dream life with others deepen our understanding of larger patterns? We examine these questions, and others, through conversations and experiments with artists, researchers, and practitioners at sunrise, in an attempt to meet the rhythms of the dreaming mind.
✏ 【NEWSLETTER】 Guest-curated newsletter digest by writer and editor Jeanette Pang Ru Yan
⦿ Interview for CLOT Magazine feature
✾ DADDY x ONEIRIC.SPACE co-hosted DREAMSCAPES, an evening of readings, screenings and discussions to celebrate DADDY’s 5-year anniversary and the launch of the Dreams Issue. We facilitated a conversation-slash-storytelling session with poet Sailesh Naidu and artist Sarah Martinus about how dreams can act as an avenue for imagining new futures at 📍 Callie’s in Berlin
✬ Residency at Muzeum Susch / Temporars Susch 📍Susch, Switzerland
✏ Muzeum Susch’s Magazine #2: A conversation with artist Itziar Okariz and curator Sandra Bradvic on open-ended approaches to engaging with dreams and envisioning new modes of learning
✏ The Creative Independent: A guide on starting (and keeping) a dream journal
✾ ONEIRIC.SPACE hosted an ‘Anxiety Release Reading’ in the frame of the ‘It was all a dream’ exhibition, curated by Laura Helena Wurth. In the lead up to the reading, we collected anonymous dream accounts where the prevailing feeling was ‘anxiety’. To explore the various shades of anxiety in a physical space, we read a selection of dream submissions. We also invited four guests from various disciplines to reflect on the topic of anxiety and anxiety dreams: artist and scientist Mert Akbal; historian and writer Edna Bonhomme; poet and printer Nadia Marcus; and photographer Charmaine de Heij 📍 Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin
✏ Taupe Magazine: Dream Chromatics
⦿ 032c x ONEIRIC SPACE: Jungian Psychoanalyst Jakob Lusensky on the Therapeutic Value of Dreams
⦿ Featured on:
AIGA Eye on Design, METAL Magazine, It’s Nice That
✾ Launched www.oneiric.space with readings and a conversation with dancer and choreographer Anna Nowicka about how embodying dreams through movement can start a dialogue between our dreaming and waking realities. The publication released five interviews with: artist Oana Tudoran, Jungian psychoanalyst Jakob Lusensky, artist and scholar Fariba Bogzaran, photography duo Synchrodogs, and 3D designer Studio Brasch 📍 The Black Lodge in Berlin
✏ www.oneiric.space launches as an online publication featuring intimate conversations about dream life with individuals from the realms of art, science, psychology and design. To mirror the idiosyncratic nature of dream experiences, each interview was designed to correspond to the content of the conversation and the dream-related material provided by the interviewee. The logo, website, and interviews were designed and developed by Studio Push.
