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The Department of Planetary Futures - Dream Clinic

On May 13th, 2022, dreamers checked in at The Department of Planetary Futures Dream Clinic where clinicians gathered and processed their dreams. The end goal: to collectively practice building a creative, just, and sustainable future.

In The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote “Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance. Rocks have their dreams, and the earth changes.” The Department of Planetary Futures Dream Clinic asks: If the dreams of rocks can change the earth, what can happen when people dream together?

In times of social disparity, attacks on bodily agency and abortion rights, economic strife, global pandemic-induced isolation, climate threat, and instability, it is essential now more than ever to come together as a collective body of voices to dream the future we want and need for the health of our society and the planet we live on. adrienne maree brown wrote in Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, “Science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together. i suspect that is what many of you are up to, practicing futures together, practicing justice together, living into new stories. It is our right and responsibility to create a new world.”

DPF Dream Clinicians Jacklyn Brickman, Kathryn Nusa Logan, and Amber Elison worked alongside members of Dream Clinic Gallery and the public. Clinicians collected, recorded, and processed dreams into a collaborative narrative for a just future. This video culminates with documentation of the event overlayed with verbalized dreams.

Dream Clinic is an artist-run art gallery, contemporary project space, and studio located in Columbus, Ohio.

The Department of Planetary Futures is a fictional entity through which multispecies collaborative experiments are employed to investigate the interrelationships humans have with other life forms and each other. At the heart of these endeavors is a desire to connect to the surrounding world and its organisms with care and humility; to learn from, engage with and speculate on possible livable futures.

  • Jacklyn Brickman
    Director
  • Kathryn Nusa Logan
    Director
  • Amber Elison
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    art, engagement, dreams, futuure
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 49 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 8, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Jacklyn Brickman, Kathryn Nusa Logan, Amber Elison

Collaborators since 2018, Logan and Brickman share cross-disciplinary backgrounds in the visual and performing arts, multiple uses of the camera, and integrative new technologies. Their collaborative works are grounded in imagining new futures by investigating the scientific realms of botany and astronomy in relationship with the performative body. Their ongoing use of video, 3D world-building, and installation is intentional, space-sensitive, and sensory, conscientious of the viewer’s physical experience. They are Founding Scholars for the Studio D Institute Residency Program at Florida State University.

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The Department of Planetary Futures (DPF) is a fictional entity through which multispecies collaborative experiments are employed to investigate interrelationships humans have with other life forms and one another. At the heart of these endeavors is a desire to connect to the surrounding world and its organisms with care and humility; to learn from, engage with and speculate possible livable futures.