Plas BrondanwSusan Williams-Ellis
Foundation (SWEF)
Foundation (SWEF)
post@susanwilliamsellis.org
01766 770590
post@susanwilliamsellis.org
01766 770590
30 April 2024: 1-2.30pm
Attendance £5
Phil Luffman, one of Oriel Plas Brondanw’s current exhibiting artists who is responsible for the two ‘stuffed shirts’ installations in the Open Exhibition, will be facilitating a Social Dreaming group within the creative surroundings of the exhibition. He is a member of a long established Social Dreaming group were free association can promote imaginative thinking and creative action. An explanation of the process will be given at the beginning of the workshop. (Please see the description below)
Please bring your dream fragments or episodes and most importantly your imagination.
Social dreaming is an opportunity to share one’s dream with others in a Matrix. The focus is on the dream and not the individual dreamer.
The dreamer recounts her/his dream to others in the Matrix, but the dream is not only his/her dream for it captures the social, political, institutional, and spiritual aspects of the dreamers’ social environment. The meaning of the dream develops through the use of free association and amplification to give form to echoes of thinking and thought that exist in the space between the minds of individuals and the shared social environment.
The Matrix is the web of feelings, emotions, thinking and thought that is present in every social relation, but unattended and unacknowledged. The Matrix mirrors during the daytime the unconscious processes that create dreaming in the night. It provides a social container, or space, in which the potentialities of dreaming can be explored to apprehend in infinite. (Lawrence,W.G. (2003) " Experiences in Social dreaming”)