Julijonas Urbonas presents "Oneiric Hotel" at 3rd Lisbon Architecture Triennale

September 27, 2013
Author Echo Gone Wrong

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On September the 12th “Close, Closer”, the third edition of Lisbon Architecture Triennale, has opened it’s door. Four main programmes – Future Perfect, The Real and Other Fictions, The Institute Effect and New Publics – are supplemented by Associated Projects among which is Oneiric Hotel, a new project by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas. Oneiric Hotel is a modified version of the larger research project, Gravitational Dreams Lab, specially tailored for the Triennale. The lab is an artistic re-enactment of a few successful scientific sleep experiments that managed to induce lucid gravitational dreams, where the dreamers could consciously fly, fall, levitate or perform other gravity-defying activities. In the project these experiments are reconstructed as custom-made experiences and catapulted from the scientific labs into the bedrooms of the public, such as homes, hotels and other spaces open for intimate and poetic exploration.

Oneiric Hotel will be providing the public with unique sleepover experience packages. Equipped with dream-inducing contraptions and techniques, everybody will be able to take a nap in sleep capsules and re-test the dream experiments in their own way. The sleepers — scientific ‘subjects’ — will become the curators of their own oneiric experiments.

Preview: 15 September, 4 pm
Open: 15 September – 3 October 2013, 11am – 6 pm daily except Mondays
Free admission

Venue: Watertank space/Former Red Bull Art House at the Lx Factory
Address: Rua Rodrigues Faria, nº 103, Edificio I, Espaço 5.0, 1300-501 Lisbon

www.oneirichotel.com
www.close-closer.com/en/#/programme/associated_projects

Concept and design: Julijonas Urbonas
Curator: Justė Kostikovaitė
Curator assistant: Zara Nogueira
Technical assistant: Paulius Vitkauskas
Programming: Jonas Peteraitis
Costumes: Aistė Nesterovaitė
Logo: Povilas Utovka (Present Perfect)

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