Ancestor Dream Visitation Repository 托梦库

Ancestor Dream Visitation Repository 托梦库 is a research experiment collecting, theorising and translating ancestor dream visitations towards new notions of lineage, remembrance and spirituality for the living descendant / future ancestor. Collaborative artistic processes alchemically transmute spiritual intentions into creative manifestations sitting between art and life.

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dream visitation teatime / i dreamt i was a funeral band uncle
Sonic Shaman Festival, Singapore Art Museum
25 Jan, 330pm, Engine Room

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“We help the dead to be or become what they are; we don’t invent them” — Vinciane Despret

Dream visitations — 托梦 — tuomeng — are a portal between realms, like two tin cans connected by string.  托 means to entrust with a message or request. 梦, dream, is made with forest and dusk; dreams then, are the dark, lush jungles we enter at night. In that darkness is a gate to the other side. At heart, tuomeng is a discourse on love, opportunity for recourse, remedy for loneliness, stream for divine aid — depending if the visitor is departed loved one, murdered individual, plant, deity, or other, “engaged in a joint transformative process with the living” (Magali Molinié).

Within the syncretic Chinese religious paradigm, 托梦 (tuōmèng) means to be visited in dreams by departed loved ones or deities with a message to convey. The scrying of these dreams, at times in informal consultation with Chinese religious goods merchants, is often a pragmatic act of inference for rituals sending money and gifts by fire.

While the Repository emerges from research within the Chinese cosmology, it is secular and reaches widely to learn from different practices and perspectives. All are welcome regardless of background. Ancestors do not need to be biological.

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ADVR is by Salty Xi Jie Ng, an artist, performer, researcher, educator, and akashic records practitioner. Serving an enchanted process guided by the mantic and divinatory, her transdisciplinary practice is an alchemical site in collaboration with people and their lives; the interdimensional, intimate vernacular; individual and shared dream imaginaries. ADVR is part of an ongoing body of work and research on grief, ancestor worship, and spirit cosmologies.

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Thank you for choosing to contribute something very personal.

Contribution & collection ethos
Contributions are collected and translated with utmost loving intention. This contribution is not intended for the opening of energetic portals to connect with contributors' departed loved ones or other entities.

Contribution & collection terms
By contributing to the repository, you agree for Salty Xi Jie Ng to respectfully use your entry for research, publication and translation to other forms. Minimally, contributions will appear in an online repository (bit.ly/advr), in exhibitions as text, as translated scores in performances, and may be quoted in writing online and/or in publications. Additionally, depending on your indication of choice below, contributions may translate into creative outputs such as video, sound, or other forms. The questions below invite you to express your preferences. Where possible, you will be credited with the name/pseudonym you indicate.
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Name (real, made-up or anonymous) *
Age
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Please describe a dream (or multiple dreams) you had of departed loved ones, pets, deities, or other energetic entities. Go into as much detail as you would like. *
When did you have this dream? Indicate date if known (or time period), and any other elements like moon phase, astrological influences, weather.
Did the dream have any effect on you or your life? Did you take any form of action (however small) as a result of the dream? Please describe if so. *
I would like to know if, in future, my dream visitation entry is translated into creative form e.g. video, sound, performance, text etc. *
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Would you be interested in potentially collaborating to translate this entry into creative form e.g. video, sound, performance, text etc.? *
Do you have any theories around dream visitations? e.g. which time of year they might occur, which part of sleep/waking they may occur, the nature of the dream, the way messages are given, authorship of the dream etc.
Please update me on future happenings for Ancestor Dream Visitation Repository. [UPCOMING: performance-lecture at Sonic Shaman, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Art Week, 25 Jan 330pm]
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