The Dreamscape project received the contribution of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation in the ambit of the “ART~WAVES. For creativity, from the idea to the scene" which looks at the consolidation of the creative identity of the territories through support for programming in the field of the performing arts and contemporary creative production, combining research, production, supply and distribution in an ecosystem logic for strengthen the artistic vocations of the territory.

Dreamscape is an immersive sound installation by Eva Frapiccini, multimedia artist and researcher who works on the relationship between memory, power and socio-political changes. The sound installation opens the program of the Electropark 2023 festival taking place on 14 - 15 -16 July. The traveling project, curated by Paola Ugolini and produced by AlbumArte, with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, hosted at the Polo del '900 in Turin (9 - 24 May 2023) and at the Madre Museum in Naples (7 - 12 June 2023), arrives for its grand finale in Genoa and at the Electropark 2023 Festival also enriched by the live performance of Sara Berts on July 15 at the Galata Museo del Mare, within the multidisciplinary program of the festival organized by Forevergreen.

Dreamscape is the second phase of processing and restitution of an archive, the result of an international research project developed by Eva Frapiccini from 2011 to 2022, during which thousands of people from different areas of the world entered her Dreams' Time Capsule to record the story of their nocturnal dream. Through this practice of ethnographic research Eva Frapiccini has extrapolated some recurring themes, keywords, archetypes, symbolic figures and common tensions.

“The purpose of archiving was to carry out a utopian work, to reach people in different areas of the world, to record their night dreams, to understand if there were any common images, testing the Jungian collective unconscious. Over the years, during historic votes, pandemic, and national referendums, more than 2300 people have responded to this call, who have entered the itinerant structure in Bogota (Colombia), Cairo (Egypt), Stockholm and Fittja (Sweden), Genoa, Bergamo and Turin (Italy), Potsdam and Berlin (Germany), Sharjah and Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Manama (Bahrain), Riga (Latvia), Wakefield (United Kingdom)” says the artist.

A research project that translated into a video-installation in 2022 accompanied by the performance of Francesca Di Biase, Ilaria Quaglia and Valerie Tameu, on choreography by Daniele Ninarello, which gave visual concreteness and plasticity to the oneiric matter (presented in Genoa at Electropark 2022 festival at the Munizioniere di Palazzo Ducale Foundation for culture).

This year, however, the artist has placed the practice of listening at the center of the work, creating an immersive sound installation that requires the presence of the public to be activated. In the dimly lit exhibition space, with the unprecedented sound dramaturgy of sound artist Sara Berts, Dreamscape shifts attention from a remote viewing to an intimate and at the same time collective participatory experience that reveals the universal dimension of the unconscious, since dreams they transcend the cultures to which those who generate them belong. “It can be said that the items preserved in the archive belong to a suspended time, they are not in the past and in the future, they simply are, and they speak to us of something that is outside of time: the dream journey” states the artist.