{"id":33956,"date":"2022-06-13T15:31:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T13:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?p=33956"},"modified":"2022-06-13T15:31:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T13:31:50","slug":"ota-dreamstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/ota-dreamstation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ota Dreamstation"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,801,819],"project_type":[725,731],"class_list":["post-33956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2021","project-undesired-by-the-market-resting","project_type-formats","project_type-web-residents"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

\u00bbThe white fathers told us I think, therefore I am. The black mother within each of us \u2013\u00a0the poet \u2013 whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.\u00ab\r\n\u2013 Audre Lorde, Poetry Is Not A Luxury<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\nWho can afford to dream? We spend one-third of our life asleep. We wake every\u00a0morning with the opportunity to shape our waking life, but how often do we as Black\u00a0people feel supported in reconstructing our realities? As the ongoing racial pandemic\u00a0continues to systemically claim Black lives, I continue to wonder which practices the\u00a0Black community could engage with that might offer new ways of being and becoming. I\u00a0turned to a practice that has always gifted me new ways of seeing, perceiving, and\u00a0exploring myself \u2013 dreaming.\r\n\r\nTo discuss dreams requires us to define their different modes: aspirations, daydreams,\u00a0visions, and the sensations we experience when we are asleep. Each of these actions\u00a0invites us to oscillate between the worlds we exist within. They transform us into active\u00a0participants in life, world builders. Can we dream \u2013 subconsciously\/consciously \u2013 a\u00a0society in which instead of explaining who we are, we could express what we are? Could we collectively imagine a world where the environment and Black lives are sustained and nurtured?\r\n\r\nDreaming is at the root of everything I do, especially my spiritual practice. I want to invite others to enjoy the tools I have cultivated and to exchange best practices so that we can get more rest as an entire community.\r\n

Ota Dreamstation<\/span><\/h5>\r\nOta means to dream (verb) in Swahili. This project is about dreaming together to explore the possibilities of liberation within the Black dreamscape.\r\n\r\nExamples of Mia Imani Harrison's work that connect to this project:\r\n\r\nHow To Return To The Earth When It Turned Its Back On You<\/em>, Performance by Mia Imani Harrison, 2019, documentation on Vimeo.<\/a>\r\n\r\nPhoto Essay: Striking Scenes From PICA\u2019s Time-Based Art Festival\u00a0by Andrew Jankowski.<\/a>\r\n\r\nDreaming up Radical Resistance, Mia Imani Harrison in conversation with Bola Juju, C&, 2019.<\/a>\r\n\r\nAn artist explores the power of dreams, Seattle Times, 2018.<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n

Mia Imani Harrison<\/strong> is an international interdisciplinary artivist (art + activist) and arts writer. Harrison interrogates the ways that disenfranchised communities can heal individual, communal, and societal trauma by creating works that live in between the worlds of art and science. This \u00bbthird way\u00ab mixes unconventional methods (dreams, rituals) and science (ethnography, geography, psychoanalysis) to dream new potential ways of being. This is done through experimental interviews, reportage, continued conversations, and the like. She strives to create generative pieces that allow the works of the artist to have a second breath outside of the confinements of an exhibition.<\/p>\r\n "}],"intro_preview_headline":"Mia Imani Harrison, Berlin\/Germany","intro_preview_txt":"\u00bbCan we dream \u2013 subconsciously and consciously \u2013 a society in which instead of explaining who we are, we could express what we are?\u00ab With the Ota Dreamstation, <\/em>Harrison aims to create a dream community and to continue their study of dreaming and dream practice outside of a western-European lens.<\/span>","intro_preview_img":33965,"post_id_old":"","post_author":null,"post_subtitle":"Mia Imani Harrison, Berlin\/Germany","post_preview_img_hide_on_single":false,"post_txt_old":"","post_pdf":"","post_copyright":"ccl_default","translated_post":false,"translations":null,"post_copyright_individual":"","post_related_posts":[33955,33954],"related_posts_post":[33193]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33956\/revisions"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/33193"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33954"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=33956"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=33956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}