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PillowEvocative Object

Object of ProvocationEnacting Participation

Art Experiment

Academic

Elizabeth Silva

Artist

Sheila Goloborotko

As research material

• Funded project• Creating knowledge• Changing cultural resonances of social life

from past to future

Cultural Haunting in Cosmopolitan Urban

Spaces:

Art and Social Dreamingin London, New York

and Sao Paulo

Capturing haunting

The importance of disclosing haunting is addressed in socio-analyses and in psycho-analyses, by reference to diverse concepts and empirical engagements. These reveal that significant areas of social life are forgotten and made invisible which express and also create dramas replicated across history, in social space and across regions.

In Sociology

• Avery Gordon – shows entire countries experiencing states of haunting – ghostly matters made marginal through the violence of modernity

• Pierre Bourdieu – symbolic violence and ‘misrecognition’: imposition of categories of thought and perception upon the dominated social.

[‘Psyche in the habitus?’]

Psychoanalysis

• Bracha Ettinger – affective history is passed down through generations. Transmission of the haunting via matrixial space and borderspace

• Gordon Lawrence – dreams as collective knowledge, as ‘objects’ woven into experiences

Psychoanalysis

• Christopher Bollas – dreams as ‘evocative objects’ for transactions between internal and external worlds

• Wendy Hollway & Lynn Froggett – dreams as ‘objects of provocation’ bridging imagination and reality in ‘scenic composition’

Using Pillows to capture Cultural Haunting via the Dream

project, enacting action research via public intervention

and community art organizations

Methodological Exploration

• The pillow as an instrument• Eclecticism and inventiveness in methods• Social Dreaming Matrix• Visual Matrix• Performance art

How active is an object?How active does an object have to be to

activate… what?

EvocativeProvocative