Dreamz, Sydney College of the Arts

The desire to ‘Remake the World” is a Utopian aspiration. It suggests that the world could or should be a different and perhaps better place but equally this desire could be realized simply as an invitation to ‘re-imagine the world’.

Artworks become traces of culture from a time and place; they contribute to the fabrication of how the world appears. You might say therefore that artists do continually re-make the world by populating it with these artifacts.

Remaking the World: Artists’ Dreaming is a conceptual challenge to both the participating artist and the viewer to imagine the artwork in its potentiality. In this sense the work is curiously aligned to the notion of belief, reinforcing art as an imaginative and speculative process caught within the intimacy of thought and dream.

Images that depict the act of sleeping have a historical lineage within Art History from Titian to Warhol. This artwork continues this legacy but frames the act of sleeping as a work-in-progress. The images of artists dreaming become a collective portrait that conveys a sense of shared intimacy in which a theatre of possibilities is evoked.

The desire to ‘Remake the World” is a Utopian aspiration. It suggests that the world could or should be a different and perhaps better place but equally this desire could be realized simply as an invitation to ‘re-imagine the world’.

Artworks become traces of culture from a time and place; they contribute to the fabrication of how the world appears. You might say therefore that artists do continually re-make the world by populating it with these artifacts.

Remaking the World: Artists’ Dreaming is a conceptual challenge to both the participating artist and the viewer to imagine the artwork in its potentiality. In this sense the work is curiously aligned to the notion of belief, reinforcing art as an imaginative and speculative process caught within the intimacy of thought and dream.

Images that depict the act of sleeping have a historical lineage within Art History from Titian to Warhol. This artwork continues this legacy but frames the act of sleeping as a work-in-progress. The images of artists dreaming become a collective portrait that conveys a sense of shared intimacy in which a theatre of possibilities is evoked.