Peter Friedl
28'50'' loop
Since Charlotte Beradt began collecting source material in 1933 for her anthology The Third Reich of Dreams, we know about the social dimension of dreams and the significant role they play as documents within political and historical anthropology. As part of his workshop on exercises in imagination, Friedl organized two public Social Dreaming sessions in a small theater in Rome in spring 2014. Social Dreaming is the psychotherapeutic version of the artistic fiction that narration—in this case, through sharing and telling dreams—may change the world. Supervised and guided by two psychologists, the participants told each other their dreams without any prior instructions. Friedl’s Study for Social Dreaming (2014–17) is based on the documentation of the two sessions, each with different participants, filmed by several cameras. The fragmented montage blurs the actual chronology and focuses on the narrative structures disclosed in often banal, associative speech acts.
Exhibitions
Report, Erna Hecey, Luxembourg, 2019
Teatro, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2019
Teatro, Carré d’Art–Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France, 2019