The Nightmare. by
Henry Fuseli, 1781.
Oil on canvas, 180 × 250 cm .
– Detroit Institute of Arts.
Tag: dreams
louise gluck
Présence Panchounette, La pression des rêves, 1974, Oreiller de matelas pneumatique, manomètre, cordon, Toile de matelas, caoutchouc, métal
40 x 91,5 x 40 cm, Paris, Centre Pompidou.
Maggie Nelson, from Bluets
Dream 1 – Mike Parr
“In 1978 Parr changed course with the performance Dream 1 (Lake Burley Griffin, Act 1, Performance Festival, Canberra) in which the artist was cast afloat on the water at night and recounted his dreams to the audience the following morning.”
From Body and Self: Performance Art in Australia 1969-1992 by Anne Marsh
Janice Lee | Reconsolidation: Or, it’s the ghosts who will answer you | Penny-Ante Editions
Nightmare Bathroom
Robin Schiff
Even though the bathroom can be a refuge and a private place, I have always been afraid there. It is not a rational fear.
It may stem from the fear I had in childhood of being sucked down the drain with the water, the ritual of confronting my nakedness, staring at my face in the mirror, the fear of being intruded upon. I wanted to convey the idea of vulnerability. The woman in the tub is made completely of loose sand. Sand is able to take a shape and retain its vulnerability at the same time. By the end of the show she was eroded by fingerprints.
-Robin Schiff
louise gluck
from meadowlands
still from Polanski’s film Rosemary’s Baby
Little Bristling Soul 