Medicines of The Soul Part 1: Damanhur Dreaming

Medicines of The Soul: Damanhur Dreaming

An exploration of deep listening and ancient dream practices.

Medicines of The Soul, Part 1: Damanhur is an ongoing exploration of deep listening, ancient dream practices. Kate integrates her research into the Asclepiun Dream Temples of Ancient Greece where dreams were incubated in order to deliver healing for the mind and body. Here, she fuses ancient practices with modern medical equipment to amplify the invitation to consider dreams as potent sources of healing and medicine.

Have you ever heard the land speaking through a dream?

Dream fragments have been carefully lifted from the delicate ecology of dream, deep imagination, and living landscape and transformed into a participatory sound installation. The audience can listen to the sounds emanating from deep within the dream, and discover ways of listening to the voice of the ‘more than human’ world.

How far can a dream travel?

Accompanying this piece are listening instructions inviting the audience to take the soundscape and one of the auditory dream-fragments: ‘Show us so we can understand’ into a place in the natural world. Participants are invited to ask the question, listen for the answers and share their dreams/ findings with the artist if they wish to.

If you would like to participate in this ongoing dream, contact Kate here for listening instructions.

Medicines of The Soul has exhibited at WIA Gallery, Lewes as part of their exhibition The Dreaming , International Association for the Study of Dreams international juried exhibition , and aired on A SHAPE IN THE CLOUDS/ Eyes Have Ears sound-art programme on CJSW www.cjsw.com

To discover how following this dream helped guide 69 people on a collective dream-led art pilgrimage called Cerne to CERN– head below.