DREAMFIELD (2026)

Dreamfield is a site-specific artwork comprising an outdoor or indoor installation, ritual accessories, and a participatory performance that activates the field.

The development of the work begins with an exploration of the local geographical, ecological, and cultural landscape, which informs the creative process. In the days preceding the performance, the artist clears the ground, removing stones, grass, litter, and weeds, and digs the soil to prepare a fertile terrain. The performance area is then demarcated using upcycled wooden desks painted blue. In the Baltimore iteration, a row of upcycled clay bricks was laid behind the wooden desks, completing the installation.

Inspired by Arnold Mindell’s concepts of the dreambody and the field from The Shaman’s Body (1993), the work invites participants into a state of active imagination in which body, matter, collectivity, decisions and future potentialities become temporarily entangled.

Dreamfield creates and holds a space for transindividual embodied dreaming, where inner processes are externalized through gesture, movement, and contact with soil. Through ritual participation within a safe environment, each participant is invited to identify limiting psychological, emotional, or energetic conditions and transform them into acts of conscious transition. Participants enter the field individually and follow a process facilitated by the artist-sorcerer. At the end of the performance, the artist sows arugula and flower seeds into the soil. The plants are later harvested and consumed, completing the cycle of life and death.

The project premiered at The Compound, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, in July 2026, as part of Stuttering is Echoing, Chapter 3 of the Silver Baits, Silver Archives exhibition curated by Rui Jiang.