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The dreams that we remember and wish to keep require a special immaterial space, analogous to their own immaterial nature. The Internet space seems the only logical choice for their storage. With its extensibility, the endlessness of contents and its dematerialization of reality, the Internet is basically an irrational substance formally similar to the phenomenon of dreaming. The “Dream Archive” project opens the space on the web for storing, preseving and archiving the dreams that you\’ve decided to save from oblivion.
About Dream Archive
Some thirty dreams dreamt by the artist during 1991 form the basis of The Dream Web, an online project at the Miroslav Kraljević Gallery web site. The possibility of hipertextuality was used in order to achieve a networking of dreams into a maze-like structure.
The Dream Archive, on the other hand, deals with other people’s dreams, deepening the preoccupation with duality and relation between dreams and reality. Thus the Internet is not only an interesting mode of presentation; it becomes a communicational tool, enabling countless potential users to access the archive. The artist invites everyone to unload their dreams, their subconcious burden into the similarly virtual and limitless space of the world wide web, aknowledging the analogies and similarities between those two spaces (the dream / the subconcious and the web / the virtual). Such a constellation allows us to see the world wide web as a (dreamlike) space belonging to a parallel reality and, as such, ideal for the storage of dreams. The author accepts dreams written in the dreamer\’s mother-tongue, but also those translated into English – the language of the web. A multilevelled transfer is thereby achieved: dream – description – translation – storage. In this process, the dream is demistified and stored in a suitable (unreal) environment conceived in our century. The primary transfer – the dream\’s inscription into written language – lays the dream bare; by transferring it from one language to another destroys even more layers of the subconcious, and by storing it in a web archive the dream becomes almost an antiseptic narrative and, in a way, fully liberated.
About Dream Net
Dream Net is an Internet adaption of the environment Kata Mijatović created at the “K+Z” exhibition in Slavonski Brod (Galerija umjetnina), using texts about dreams. In the online work, the texts are accompanied by visual material. The possibility of hipertextuality is used in order to achieve the networking of dreams into a maze-like structure. The relevance of beginning and ending is undermined, navigation becomes confusing, and with each step we dive deeper into the subconcious world.
All the recorded dreams were dreamt by the author ten years ago at the beginning of war and her artistic career. To those familiar with Kata Mijatović’s work Dream Net uncovers not only the roots of her inspiration, but also the fluid sphere of dreams, where the merging of the subconscious and the concious becomes the author’s most important motif.
The photographs used for visualisation of dreams were made by the artist Zoran Pavelić.
