What is the Dream Palace?
Dream Palace is an architecture for dreaming together: built, inhabited, and dissolved, leaving only what the dreamers carry with them. Each edition is summoned by director-founder Leslie Claire and a group of Dream Architects (or they summon her).
The process draws on dreamaturgy, developed by Daisy Campbell and Kate Alderton, which treats dreams not as symbols to interpret but as forces to tend. Where dramaturgy asks what a story needs to become itself, dreamaturgy asks the same of a dream: what does it want to be?
Each edition, summoned by a place, gathers no more than 50 dreamers at the intersection of theatre, dreaming, and collective imagination. It's made for artists, researchers, and cultural thinkers ready to step outside the pace of creation, and for anyone drawn to immersive theatre, consciousness practices, or a new kind of creative experience.
Dream Palace Athens
20-30 October 2023
In October 2023, Dream Palace’s Athens 10 day artistic residency culminated in a defining weekend of original performances created by residency participants that blurred ritual, technology, and sonic exploration.
The legendary IASOS performed his homecoming Swan song .
It was not only his last concert of his long and trailblazing career but a rare opportunity to hear his signature inter‑dimensional soundscapes.
Highlights included: American inventor‑musician Quintron showcased, at sunset, the Weather Warlock, an analog synthesizer and meteorological instrument.
Khan of Finland, the Berlin-based music pioneer and performance artist, gave a playful high energy performance alongside Mexican video artist Taco Urquiza.
Highlights included: American inventor‑musician Quintron showcased, at sunset, the Weather Warlock, an analog synthesizer and meteorological instrument.
Khan of Finland, the Berlin-based music pioneer and performance artist, gave a playful high energy performance alongside Mexican video artist Taco Urquiza.
Experimental Italian/French sound duo Zohastre delivered an immersive audiovisual ritual merging analog electronics with mythic storytelling
Jussi Brightmore’s Dreamshare, a participatory dream recall installation inviting collective memory-making and subconscious exchange
Keynote talks were given by experts in the field such as Theatre Director Daisy Iris Campbell and Writer & Researcher Katrin Vallis deepened the experience, alongside daily guidance from members of the Oneironotics Department.
Jussi Brightmore’s Dreamshare, a participatory dream recall installation inviting collective memory-making and subconscious exchange
Keynote talks were given by experts in the field such as Theatre Director Daisy Iris Campbell and Writer & Researcher Katrin Vallis deepened the experience, alongside daily guidance from members of the Oneironotics Department.
Dream Palace Cairo
29 December – 14 January 2024
Dream Palace’s Cairo residency was the next chapter following Athens. It offered one- and two-week programs of radical dreamwork and symbolic immersion.
Core elements included a showing of work in progress at the art centre Darb1718, designed to charge and share our collective dream research. Collaborating artists also developed a radio performance for NTS Radio born out of the residency.
Participants engaged in dream-sharing circles and communal dreaming practices with returning residents such as Evan Root, Daisy Campbell & Jussi Brightmore.
Participants engaged in dream-sharing circles and communal dreaming practices with returning residents such as Evan Root, Daisy Campbell & Jussi Brightmore.
As well as inviting new residents such as Irish/Egyptian artist and creative director Kamelia Mckayed & Iraqi/British writer Wassim Alsindi. The Cairo Residency deepened our understanding of the architecture of Dream Palace with a concentrated residency in another site of significant cultural memory, Dreaming with the land and connecting through deep listening, local culture, and intention.
𓆚 ¿Es esto un sueño? 𓂀 És això un somni? 𓂀 Is this a dream? 𓂀 ¿Es esto un sueño? 𓂀 ¿Es esto un sueño? 𓂀 És això un somni? 𓂀 Is this a dream?
𓆚 ¿Es esto un sueño? 𓂀 És això un somni? 𓂀 Is this a dream? 𓂀 ¿Es esto un sueño? 𓂀 ¿Es esto un sueño? 𓂀 És això un somni? 𓂀 Is this a dream?
