BED FOR DREAMING invites its participants and celebrants to come and sleep in an ancient Chinese bed—sleep and dream—and in dreaming, access the mysterious, the shadowed and otherworldly, the weird and the surprising. With luck they will have dreams to relate, or if their dream is fugitive or forgotten, create one using the dream objects there.

Art and dreaming are some of the last remaining activities undertaken with no particular use, for their own sake, in the shrinking category of the non-economic, for the sustenance of the heart and soul. So few remain! But art and dreaming take their place alongside such noble pastimes as sleeping, caring for others, singing tunelessly, dancing non-professionally and praying without contributing to the collection plate. Even going for walks has become a positive wellness activity, producing higher performance and optimal outcomes, and “leisure” is a necessity of the non-machine, in contradistinction to the other, more honorable activity of 9-9-6 “work”.

A refuge from the modern condition, a metaphorical womb, BED FOR DREAMING is snug in the unconditional positive regard of The Great Mother, a retreat into safety, ready to embark into the chthonic world of dreams, depth and obscurity.

Caterina Fake is an artist whose career bridges the worlds of art, literature, film, culture and technology, who transgresses the boundaries between myth and machine, art and science, building and dreaming. Honored by Rhizome at the New Museum, with honorary degrees from RISD and the New School and named to the Time 100, Fake is currently working in installation, painting, performance, and participatory art. She is also half of the art collective Fake & Fake.