UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
An ongoing project by Sarah Perks and Paul Stewart that explores engagement with collections through creative workshops and a collaboration with AI that is an invitation for all to dream. The dreams of the collection are then visualised using machine learning and the artists create an AI-generated film that can be gifted back to the collection.
Collections are a sleeping repository of pasts and presents that, once woken, influence meaning in the future through exhibitions. Whilst they sleep, can we conceive of them dreaming? After all, dreams are atemporal self-reflection spaces, experiencers of deep fantasy, exposers of desires, and portals to process the voices of those around us. What if being awake was just to capture data for our dreams? What do the dreams of a collection look like?
The first iteration of this project is part of the Working Lives exhibition at MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) that opened on 25 April 2024, see here for the script and more info.
Image credit: courtesy of the Artists and DALL-E 2