In huiyin and Laura's daily check-ins, they often share their dreams and nightmares with each other. These stories in the most uncensored realm – often of ancestors, chosen family, friends and strangers at once far and close – speak to their intuition, deepest fears and desires, solidarity and complicity, and ancestral knowledges that have been denied from marginalized communities. They have guided the duo's collaborative creative practice, often serving as connective tissues in their letters for the past two years.
Drawing from Chinese Taoist cosmology and shamanistic practices in Northeastern Asia, this project views dreams as one of the least surveilled/(self)-censored forms of knowledge—a direct and unfiltered means of relearning and healing. At the intersection of ongoing global conflicts, genocides, and social movements, the work holds collective dreams in a womb-like, fugitive space for (im)migrants and marginalized communities, who are constantly being put through a transitory and crisis-response state. The work asks to center rest and care and examines the radical potential of collective dreaming as a political form for creative infrastructure (re)building and alternative healing.
Work in Progress; Supported by CulturePush’s Fellowship for Utopian Practice 2024-25
Public Events
July 19, 2025 3-5pm, weaving our collective dreamscape: relational practice for resistance and healing, Rad Arts, Queen Street Magic Boat
June 28, 2025 4-6pm, dreamscapes: weaving stories of rest and care, CulturePush Show Don’t Tell Symposium, Zoom
June 19-22, 2025, xMPL (experimental media performance lab), UC Irvine Contemporary Art Center, CA