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| Time of residency | September 2025 |
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| Contact info | peter.junie@gmail.com |
| Definition of artistic practice? | Daydream Dialogues holds sessions in varied landscapes, where daydreaming acts as a bridge between inner and outer worlds. Participants explore elemental qualities of the land, sharing their inner journeys via words, movement, and form. Through this collective practice, new shared stories and ecological bonds emerge between people and place. I document these daydreams with choreography, interactive models, and maps to reveal deeper, layered understandings of place. |
| Title of the investigation at the residency | The Shared Poetic Image |
| Description of investigations and findings | First, I explored how my method might draw inspiration from and develop through the other five participants. Quickly, the residency itself became a shelter: a refuge. My inquiry became a shelter for me – a space to deepen into what shelter means. Together with the others, I built shelters. Within them, I made space for immersion and daydreams, shaping my own notion of shelter: a place that is open – like a fountain in a city square, or under a tree in a park – where one isn’t isolated, yet can still daydream and immerse. I found my method evolving so participants themselves can define and build their own shelters. I discovered new modes of expressing daydreams – through creative writing inspired by observing artwork, landscape, insects, or anything that speaks to the imagination. |
| What are you most curious about or invested in in your own practice? | I am curious about how a group of people can create a shared poetic image of a place. Inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s notion of rêverie, I wish to explore how the elements of a site - such as the texture of bark, the surface of grass, the hum of insects, and the quality of the air - influence our daydreams. I want to investigate whether these deeply personal, yet universal images can resonate within a group and become a collective, though ambiguous, expression of the place’s essence. |
| What questions did you bring to investigate and what questions are you leaving with? | Before: How might a group of people create a shared poetic image of a place - and how can that image be preserved? After: How can a group of people create an open shelter for daydreaming and immersion in a public place (not a park)? |
| Transformative, creative moments at the residency | Ellen Kilsgaard introduced her creative writing method in which one person dances while one or more observers write whatever comes to mind. This method can be directly incorporated into my practice: participants writing or drawing daydreams as they observe a landscape. |
| Keywords for the work done at the residency | Daydreaming, Poetry, Shelters |
| Research locations | White Space (BIRCA) |
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