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Abramovic, Marina (b. 1946). Dream Book. Japan: Gendaikikakushitsu, Published in 2012 and Executed in 2014. 8 ¾ x 6 x 4/5 in. Yellow highlighter marker on printed book with black cotton thread and brass key fragment.
Opening Bid: $3,000
Bound in loops of delicate black cotton thread and adorned with a broken brass house key, Dream Book is a continuation of vanguard performance artist Marina Abramovic’s investigations into what art is and can be. Similar to her signature performance pieces and works that engage the audience, the present work pushes the definition of art to its limits and encourages the close examination of our everyday social condition. This sealed Dream Book takes as its main material the 2012 book of the same name, which was published as a companion piece to Abramovic’s Dream House, a 100-year-old farmhouse in Matsuyonama, Japan converted by the artist into a retreat for ritualized dreaming.
Located in a remote wooded area, the Dream House invites guests to spend the evening in a specially crafted room with deep-set boxes for beds, uniform-like pajamas and a built-in colored lighting system that awakens visitors in the morning, who then record their dreams in books. Designed to stimulate visitors’ appreciation for dreams as well as an awareness of the present moment, the Dream House is Abramovic’s response to the hustle of modern life. The 2012 book is the artist’s guide to experiencing the spaces of the Dream House, and it also includes 100 dreams that were written down by guests between July 2000 and November 2010.
In Dream Book, Abramovic has hidden something within its pages that can never be accessed. The book is tightly closed, and the key tied to the book has been snapped in half, rendering it useless for opening a lock. Like a dream, the contents of this book can never be visualized in waking life. They must forever remain mysterious, since to open Dream Book and reveal its unknown content would be to destroy the artwork. Echoing these feelings of separation and inaccessibility, Abramovic’s portrait on the cover shows the artist with eyes closed and her hand outstretched in front of her face, touching a glass barrier between herself and the viewer.
This theme of exploring the physical, mental and emotional distances between the artist and the audience is central in Abramovic’s oeuvre. Whether working in performance, sculpture or conceptual projects such as Dream Book, Abramovic and the participants are encouraged to contemplate and embrace their solitude and connections with one another, signaling the alternately isolated endurance and basic human connection inherent to both performance and daily existence. Dream Book thus represents an extension of Abramovic’s inquiries into social connections and awareness of the conditions of existence, and it is also linked to the artist’s ongoing project of the Dream House, making it demonstrative of her continued engagement with and new interpretations of the subject.
Opening Bid: $3,000
Bound in loops of delicate black cotton thread and adorned with a broken brass house key, Dream Book is a continuation of vanguard performance artist Marina Abramovic’s investigations into what art is and can be. Similar to her signature performance pieces and works that engage the audience, the present work pushes the definition of art to its limits and encourages the close examination of our everyday social condition. This sealed Dream Book takes as its main material the 2012 book of the same name, which was published as a companion piece to Abramovic’s Dream House, a 100-year-old farmhouse in Matsuyonama, Japan converted by the artist into a retreat for ritualized dreaming.
Located in a remote wooded area, the Dream House invites guests to spend the evening in a specially crafted room with deep-set boxes for beds, uniform-like pajamas and a built-in colored lighting system that awakens visitors in the morning, who then record their dreams in books. Designed to stimulate visitors’ appreciation for dreams as well as an awareness of the present moment, the Dream House is Abramovic’s response to the hustle of modern life. The 2012 book is the artist’s guide to experiencing the spaces of the Dream House, and it also includes 100 dreams that were written down by guests between July 2000 and November 2010.
In Dream Book, Abramovic has hidden something within its pages that can never be accessed. The book is tightly closed, and the key tied to the book has been snapped in half, rendering it useless for opening a lock. Like a dream, the contents of this book can never be visualized in waking life. They must forever remain mysterious, since to open Dream Book and reveal its unknown content would be to destroy the artwork. Echoing these feelings of separation and inaccessibility, Abramovic’s portrait on the cover shows the artist with eyes closed and her hand outstretched in front of her face, touching a glass barrier between herself and the viewer.
This theme of exploring the physical, mental and emotional distances between the artist and the audience is central in Abramovic’s oeuvre. Whether working in performance, sculpture or conceptual projects such as Dream Book, Abramovic and the participants are encouraged to contemplate and embrace their solitude and connections with one another, signaling the alternately isolated endurance and basic human connection inherent to both performance and daily existence. Dream Book thus represents an extension of Abramovic’s inquiries into social connections and awareness of the conditions of existence, and it is also linked to the artist’s ongoing project of the Dream House, making it demonstrative of her continued engagement with and new interpretations of the subject.
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