Sylvia Eckermann (A)

In Sylvia Eckermann’s installation ADREAMLESSMIND, the room is dreaming rather than the guests. The room‘s dream becomes the visitors’ daydream evoked by words glowing in the dark.

As one enters, the hotel room seems untouched. Only the lights are on and the curtains are closed. Nothing seems unusual. Should the visitor, however, decide to follow the instruction she could read at the outside of the door, she takes the card key out of its wall slot. Instantly the light goes off and phrases and words sweep across the walls, meander over edges and surfaces, appear on linen, blankets and pillows. The visitor makes herself comfortable, reads and contemplates. At first, it might take some focus to decipher the animated texts but only moments later her perceptions and emotions will create the impression of a daydream or perhaps will even evoke a lucid dream in waking state.

Terms and phrases are taken from Elena Esposito, Michel Foucault, Quentin Meillassoux, Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others.