The first artwork you experience with your eyes closed

Image from dreamachine.world

How bizarre, created by Collective Act, in collaboration with Turner Prize-winning artists Assemble, Grammy and Mercury-nominated composer Jon Hopkins, and a team of leading technologists, scientists and philosophers, Dreamachine is the first artwork to be experienced with your eyes-closed.

The experience is effectively a light and sound show that induces trippy effects, unique to you as you close your eyes. Sounds like a trip.

I’m almost more interested to understand the theory behind it than I am to actually experience it. With only returns now available for Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors and other immersive installations closing in 2021, Dreamachine will bring a welcome departure from immersive art shows that are based on projections of classics (nothing wrong with those shows, but nice to have something different).

As part of Unboxed: Creativity in the UK the work is one of 10 large-scale projects that will be shown around the UK. Fun fact, Unboxed is known on the street as the Festival of Brexit due to former Prime Minister Theresa May’s original intent to lift the spirits of a divided nation with an expo.

Dreamachine will be shown in London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff and tickets will be free, with booking opening soon. Stay tuned by signing up to our newsletter or you can sign up for updates here