The Royal Road to the Unconscious
dal 21/7/2004 al 22/7/2004
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21/7/2004
The Royal Road to the Unconscious
Art Metropole, Toronto
The Royal Road to the Unconscious was conceived by the British artist Simon Morris in order to conduct an experiment on Sigmund Freud's writing. In this experiment Morris subjected Freud's Interpretation of Dreams to an aleatory moment - a seemingly random act of utter madness - by throwing the entire text, cut up into 333,960 words, out of a car travelling at high speed. Book launch, film screening, performance.
BOOK LAUNCH
FILM SCREENING
PERFORMANCE
Thursday 22 July 2004 7-9pm
The Royal Road to the Unconscious was conceived by the British artist Simon Morris in order to conduct an experiment on Sigmund Freud's writing. In this experiment Morris subjected Freud's Interpretation of Dreams to an aleatory moment - a seemingly random act of utter madness - by throwing the entire text, cut up into 333,960 words, out of a car travelling at high speed.
The poetic act of liberating Freud's text was captured on film (filmed by Daniel Jackson) which will be screened at the launch.
"The movie is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen."
- Kenneth Goldsmith, artist and editor of ubuweb
"It's time has come I think and you did it well."
- Ed Ruscha, artist
"I received The Royal Road to the Unconscious this morning: most, most beautiful. I love it."
- Professor Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, L'Université Sorbonne, Paris, France.
The artist's book, The Royal Road to the Unconscious (undesigned by Pavel Büchler with photographs by Maurizio Cogliandro & Dallas Seitz ) will be available at the launch for the special price of $20 (rrp £15).
Morris will also perform spinning: de-centering the self which was recently presented at The Royal Festival Hall in London, England. This work is concerned with artists who use techniques of spinning, boredom and repetition to erase their egos in order to achieve a pure state of creativity.
ART METROPOLE
788 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5V 1N6