This Dream; This Frequency
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Fragments of soldiers' nocturnal dreams mixed with Mesopatamian nightmares will be broadcast by micro radio transmitters located in four different locations within a city neighborhood. As cyclists, pedestrians or drivers navigate a preordained route, they will be able to tune into the station and listen to the dream until they have passed out of range. What has coagulated in the dreaming mind of a soldier will be mechanically leaked into the ether, the causeway of the public's consciousness.

The contemporary dreams were collected by Mary Walling Blackburn from soldiers stationed in Iraq. The dreams from Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) were found in a library book at the University of Chicago. Archeologists unearthed fragments of clay tablets inscribed with dreams that had disturbed their dreamer. According to the book, nightmares were often ritually "disposed of" by copying the dream into clay and then destroying the dried text.

The earliest iteration of this work was made possible by Tony Bayles, Joaquin Viera and Andrew Sonnenshein. The latest is indebted to Valerie Imus.

Exhibited at Hopeless and Otherwise, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, May 2008, Feeltank, Patho-geographies, Gallery 400, Chicago, 2007, and Drive By Performance Series, Link's Hall, Chicago, 2006. Broadcast by Neighborhood Public Radio live from the Whitney Biennale 2008, May 28. 2:00 am to 5:00 pm