Join M_A for a workshop that ventures into the mutable, evolving landscape of sleep and dreaming. Through artist-led dream sharing, collective writing, and conversation, our night-time dreams become an abundant and generative resource that shapes a collaborative installation concept by artist Sara Suárez and designer Regina Teng for the M_A Storefront opening in 2023.
This 2-hour workshop, guided by Sara Suárez, is the first in a generative series that aims to produce a “reservoir” of dream content. Participants will explore new forms of vulnerability and intimacy that reframe collective dreaming as an open, plastic space that may reveal and cultivate radical modes of relationality, community care, and futurist speculation. The installation that will take shape from this shared archive of images, sensations, symbols, and stories will complement HEAT AID 2023.
With permission, materials generated in this workshop will be incorporated into the physical space, opening in spring 2023, and participants will be credited as project contributors.
Participation is free. This session will take place virtually (via Zoom), and a Zoom link will be circulated following your RSVP.
Gathering Tides I is the first in a series of workshops held in the winter of 2022-2023. These workshops will explore interconnectivities and relationalities vis a vis dream-sharing workshops, each uniquely sited across Los Angeles or online. An installation at the M&A Storefront will emerge from the collection of shared dreams. This orientation around dreaming situates the M_A Storefront in the past, present, and future, all the while reflecting on the necessity of resource-sharing, mutual aid, and material reuse as embodied by its coexistence in the space with HEAT AID.
Sara Suárez is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist working across experimental film, sound composition and social practice, interested in sensory and spatial perception, shared spaces and landscapes, collective memory, and co-creative processes.
Her works include visual and sonic landscape studies that incorporate audio collage, electronic composition, and analog film processes. She is currently developing a collection of work considering the physical and social experiences of darkness, sleep, and dreaming, and the forces that degrade these essential needs. Her work has been featured by LA Filmforum, Slamdance, Alchemy Film Festival, ICDOCS, Chicago Underground Film Festival and other venues.
Suárez is also the co-founder of virtual care lab, an interdisciplinary project platform and creative community interrogating issues of care, solidarity, co-creation, and trust in virtual space. She completed her MFA at CalArts and works in Los Angeles.
Regina Teng is an architectural designer and founding principal of GINAA. Her work focuses on the atmospheric intersections of environment, nature, and culture. A native Angeleno, she has worked and exhibited internationally, including in Tokyo, Sydney, Zurich, Shanghai and the UK. Regina’s current research examines the potential for optic caustics, the reflection, refraction, and projection of light through materials, to operate as part of a passive thermal strategy.
She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP, and has taught previously at USC, UCLA, and Princeton University.