Dreams and Dreaming - their place in our lives
Fri, 31 May
|Korean Cultural Centre UK
Join a discussion about dreams, contribute a memorable dream and have it featured in DREAM AUCTION | DREAM RITUAL project.
Time & Location
31 May 2019, 15:00 – 16:00
Korean Cultural Centre UK, Grand Buildings, 1-3 Strand, Charing Cross, London WC2N 5BW, UK
About The Event
kccuk.org.uk/en/news/looking-dreams-use-performance-dream-ritual
This workshop is hosted by Korean Cultural Centre UK
A small discussion about Bongsu Park's DREAM AUCTION I DREAM RITUAL project and dream writing workshop with Hazel Riley.
DREAM AUCTION I DREAM RITUAL project is running a series of talks, discussions and workshops in lot of different contexts around the themes of dream. After our first workshop 'Dream and Dreaming - their place in our lives _ Vol.1' at Wellcome Collection's Reading Room on 2nd April 2019, the next one will be held at Korean Cultural Centre in UK on 31st May. This series of workshops will be run by the project director Bongsu Park and Hazel Riley - an author, teacher and shamanic practitioner.
During the workshop we will talk about the project and the specific Korean culture of buying and selling dreams. Also we will share our ideas about dreams from many perspectives – dream related traditional customs to neuroscience and psychology. Alongside the dream contributions through our project website, people can contribute their dreams off-line at the end of workshop.
Bongsu Park is a London-based Korean artist. Her recent work is founded on how our innermost thoughts may connect with other people’s and how these can be shared publicly. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts, UK and at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France. She has exhibited internationally including Zona Maco-Sample, FIAC-cinéphémère, The Moving Image Istanbul, Barcelona LOOP, Gyungnam Art Museum in Changwon, South Korea and her performance work showed at Camden Arts Centre, Rosenfeld Porcini gallery and the Print Room Coronet Theatre in London. Her work finds its roots in the philosophy of her homeland South Korea and brings this into the context of contemporary western societies.
Hazel Riley is an author, teacher and shamanic practitioner. She was the first to enter the labyrinth in Bongsu Park’s Internal Library project, drawn by her life long interest in myth, dreams and writing. Hazel has published two novels for young adults, Thanis (2000) and The Crying (2002). Born in Gateshead, she has lived in London for over forty years. She is currently teaching Art History on an Access to Higher Education Diploma at Kensington & Chelsea College. She has taught modules on healing, ritual and art to anthropology students. She is very interested in dance, especially companies and artists who explore the ritual, ancestral and sacred aspects of dance. Hazel has been keeping dream journals for over thirty years.