DREAMLANDS: An installation weaving together dreams in Southside Glasgow

Opening on Thursday the 2nd March at 20 Albert Drive, artist Mina Heydari-Waite presents ‘Dreamlands: An Exhibition’. This immersive installation brings together collaborative ceramic works and a sensory soundscape made through community workshops in the Southside of Glasgow over the last year.

The ceramic work was made by ‘the dreamlands pottery’, a group of eight women* from global majority backgrounds** who met fortnightly over 2022 to use clay as a means to think about dreams and talismans.

This series of totemic ceramic objects will be shown alongside a sound piece (made in collaboration with William Aikman) in which a collective of voices weave together a constellated dreamscape. This audio work uses ideas and images from ‘in walking together we make the path’, a social dreaming group open to people of marginalised genders***, and features members of the group voicing fragments of one another’s dreams.

The exhibition will also mark the launch as the second edition of the Dreamlands publication, which shares creative work that considers dream-sharing as a communicative gesture that can operate as a form of social and political action. This edition will include an essay by Mina, reflecting on a year of community dream sharing, linking the recurring images of water voiced by the dreamers to the notion of ‘oceanic feeling’ and its political implications.

Dreamlands is an on-going research project by artist Mina Heydari-Waite that asks: can the act of sharing our dreams create possibilities for new thought about how we occupy space in our shared waking world?

Dreamlands is a Govanhill Baths Culture Collective project responding to the theme of OCCUPY! through socially engaged artistic practice.

Event details:

Where: 20 Albert Drive, G41 2PE

Openings: Thursday 2nd March 6pm-8pm with drinks and nibbles & Friday 3rd March

11am-1pm with coffee and pastries.

FREE EVENT