FAR

Film Installation: November 14-18

Opening Reception: Wednesday November 15, 6-8pm

Workshop on Dream Mapping:
Thursday, November 16, 12- 3pm

The Dream Mapping Project presents "The Horses Come for Everyone," a three-channel amalgamation of documentary footage surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Rooted in the prophetic dreams of five Russian women filmed clandestinely in early March 2022 in Saint Petersburg, this project explores the psychology and archetypology of war through the lens of what Carl Jung described as the collective unconscious. With the help of Jungian analysts, we delve into the collective dreamscape of those marked by fear, guilt, and repressions. Incorporated is a spoken word improvisation from the epilogue of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "Crime and Punishment," in which Raskolnikov dreams of a worldwide plague that corrupts people’s relationships and brings an inevitable end to life as we know it. Symbolically speaking, Dostoyevsky speaks of the final clash, akin to what Carl Jung stated in his response to the question of Nuclear War in 1954. The dream material reveals the symbolic tensions between good and evil, eerily foreshadowing the unfolding events within Russia and its war with Ukraine. "The Horses Come For Everyone," a title derived from a shared dream among the women, documents a day in the life behind the quickly lowering iron curtain of Putin's Russia. Alongside the film, Alisa Minyukova will present an assemblage of handmade and found objects, including artifacts from the battlefield in Ukraine, representing elements of the shared dreams among the women.

This event is part of a larger film screening series titled ‘When the Past Becomes the Present: Four Female Filmmaker’s Voices on the Roles of Women in the Post-Soviet World.’

The Dream Mapping Project is a global artists collective which explores the realm of dreaming. Produced by Dr. Kelly Bulkeley and curated by Alisa Minyukova, DMP aims to bridge dream science with the creative process. Through our work we have discovered the language of dreams to point to what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious — ancestral memory and experience that is common to all humankind. Invited artists spend several days unraveling layers of a particular dream using analytic methods, explorations of symbolism, and improvisational interactive performance. Within this collaborative process the dreamscape itself sets the stage for anthropologically rich performative storytelling. This process has resulted in an ongoing series of collaborative art, film and performance works.

This exhibition program has been supported by the following organizations: The College Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI), the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design, Robert F. Byrnes Russian and The Russian and Eastern European Institute (REEI) at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the FAR Center for Contemporary Art.