Rivane Neuenschwander: dream.lab
Rivane Neuenschwander’s first solo exhibition in Austria, dream.lab, will feature an immersive spatial installation, and works developed with children from St. Pölten.
In preparation for dream.lab, Neuenschwander reached out to children from the Children’s Advisory Groups and the Kunstideenwerkstatt (Art Ideas Workshop). The artist encouraged the children to engage in a close dialogue with her artistic processes and methods generating a shared space for co-creation experiments, which prompted new paths for her own art practice. During the exhibition, children and young people are encouraged to exchange ideas with artists, art mediators, and scientists in barrier-free school and kindergarten workshops, talks, performances, guided tours, and open workshops.
At KinderKunstLabor’s previous show, Träume von Räumen (Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, 2023), Neuenschwander investigated on-site the significance of dreaming for humanity, the perception of time in dreams, the fleeting nature of dreams, and the difference between dreaming and daydreaming. How can we dream with and from the perspective of nature? What does it mean when dreaming is an oracle for Indigenous peoples? Can dreaming help us to expand our political imagination?
