Psychoanalyst and film theorist Viktor Mazin and artist Pavel Pepperstein will discuss the influence of dreams on visual art and the psychoanalytical understanding of the reality of dreams.
As much as a source of inspiration, dreams can help the artist (and their viewers) approach an alternative reality from a closer perspective.
Art, the world of dreams, and psychoanalysis remained tightly interconnected throughout the twentieth century, with art movements that tackled psychoanalytical issues varying from surrealism and conceptualism to postconceptualism and new media art. With the invasion of new realities in the twenty-first century, including the virtual and augmented ones, dreaming acquired novel meanings, as the world of visions and dreams has become even closer.
The conversation, that will be preceded by Viktor Mazin’s mini lecture on the basic ideas of the psychoanalytic theory and their relation to visual arts, will focus on a variety of subjects, including the role of art in the world of stratified realities, dreams and capitalism, dreams and hallucinations, psychedelic realism and the intention of the artist.
Pavel Pepperstein and Viktor Mazin are co-authors of the books Kabinet Glubokhih Perezhivanij (Cabinet of Deep Experience, 2000) and Tolkovanie Snovidenij (The Interpretation of Dreams, 2005).
