Crepuscolo della Creatura

Audio/ Video installation by Lukas Taido

First Setup: CREA Venice gallery, October 28^th – November 28^th 2022, Venice, Italy

„I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events, than to those occurring in dreams“

André Breton, 1924

1) All people who are awake and conscious around the world at a certain moment, share a portion of one single (definably objective) reality. Via different medias and options of telecommunication, this single reality can be perceived as being shared by all.

2) During that very same moment, hundreds of million people around the world who are asleep and actively dreaming, inhabit and experience a unique, single personal reality, unaware of its temporary character.

3) Comparable to quantum levels, these millions of realities co-exist during every single moment in time.

4) Each individual can be a part of a multitude of quantum levels or subjective dreams at the same time, but never be observer of more than one.

5) These millions of dreams are inaccessible to everybody else. We can watch the dreamer, measure their brain waves, rapid eye movements, pulse, respiration and much more, but are unable to see or even experience their dreams.

6) Some scientists say, this will be possible though in a couple of decades, using advanced measuring methods and A.I.

7) Dreams are one of the most personal, subjective and unshareable experiences there are.

8) During my voluntary night in the ASR medical sleeping laboratory in Berlin’s Charite Clinic on August 19th 2022, more than 100.000 units of multichannel digital data were recorded, mainly brain wave activity.

9) The data recorded during the phases of dreaming (indicated by the rapid eye movements or R.E.M.) is driving the soundtrack of the installation on numerous levels.

10) A visual animation of the data obtained during my dream phases is also projected to the outer gauze screens, which acts as a barrier and represents the inaccessibility of the dreams inside for anybody else besides the individual.

11) While we are awake, the outside world greatly determines our destiny. We actively struggle to influence the course of events. In dreams, solely our subconscious determines everything. Here, there is no relationship between external influence and inner striving. The dream follows a storyline we cannot control.