Eating Dreams
18th March 2023
h.Art Gallery
London
Photographer:h.Art Gallery
This performance looks at the human action of eating and the repetition of the actions in the performance. By working with grapes and writing down my working porcess of dreams and grapes, this performance also explores how to transfer the memory process of dreams and human reality. The reason for me to work with grapes and dreams is that in my dreams, I often see some scenes that I have not personally experienced. This type of dream experience was evoked after I had eaten grapes on a specific occasion and kept a rhythm with a particular speed. Thus, I also hope this performance will blur reality and dreams, showing the liminal space between them.
How do reality and dreams transform
when we remember back on our dreams?
How do I open the door to my memories of my dreams, connecting my reality to my blurred dreams?
Can I be clear that I am at some point standing in that space between dream and reality?
- Performance Statement, Shuyi Gao