LOOP Talks 2021: A Dream Dreaming A Dream

Among them, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané presents his video ‘A Dream Dreaming A Dream’ (2020) with gallery Esther Schipper (Berlin).  A Dream Dreaming A Dream is an online infinitely self-generating animation of a dreaming panther walking through a forest. In this conversation with curator Soledad Gutiérrez, Head Curator at TBA21-Thyssen Bornemisza, the artist will unfold the research behind the work and open up the conversation to broader concerns.   This work is inspired by indigenous peoples’ perceptions of the forest and of the entities that inhabit it beyond the human: the divine characters of animals, rivers, plants, as well as the xapiris, the shamanic master spirits of the Yanomami people of Brazil. A Dream Dreaming a Dream Dreaming layers different forms of knowledge and knowing—indigenous wisdom, the images and sensations of sleep, and the artificial intelligence of a computer processor—and calls for new ways of being in the world.