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charmaine li

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starlight speaks to stone ONEIRIC SPACE

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starlight speaks to stone is a videopoem that meditates on what it means to dream with and of the earth in the midst of climate catastrophe. Inspired by the nonlinear, multilayered nature of the subconscious, the work weaves together everyday scenes of light, natural phenomena, and moments of perceived synchronicity with texts gathered from participants during a collective dream reflection exercise in Berlin, alongside fragments from the artist's personal dream journals. 

Through an interplay of image, text, and sound, the video poem explores dreams as a site where individual, collective, and ecological threads coalesce. It asks: What kinds of knowledge surface in dreams? How might sustained attention to nightly visions reshape the ways we attune to ourselves, to other beings around us, and to the Earth? 

Visuals, narration, and editing: Charmaine Li
Music: Alexis Chan
Text: Charmaine Li with Dream Journal Fragments & Anonymous Responses gathered from ‘Wading Thru Dream, 2gether’ (ACUD Galerie, 2024)

This project was developed and assembled during Est-Nord-Est’s Author’s Residency and was first presented in 2024 as part of an installation at the residency’s Open Studios.

 

𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒷𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒽 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓃𝑜𝓌?