Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya, Interspecies Dreaming

Interspecies dreaming, audio recording, 00:12:33, 2023

As much as water is commonly understood as a constant flow and transition, dreams also offer us possible visions of shifting, co-creating imaginative spaces, landscapes that are sensitive to personal mattering of intention.

Dreams are the space to explore the fluidity of forms in a more sensitive state through personal & collective consciousness, and other perceptions of existence. Dreams are part of multiple species and materialities I work with, connecting them in ways which are often invisible. In “more-than-human” ways, I try to establish a different perception/understanding of interconnectedness and how it influences us and our attitude towards social and ecological responsibility. Within the disciplines of ecology and sleeping science, through practice-based workshops involving sound/video, drawing, and collective performance, I want to approach multiple visual and sensorial ways in which dreams and the ecological specificities of the rural landscape influence each other these days.

Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya is an audio-visual artist from Belarus, based in Prague, Czech Republic. She works with installation-based performances and co-created spaces, often including interaction with participants. She composes various kinds of matter and explores the process of ‘mattering’ to delve into interconnectivity and in-betweenness. She places value on research that includes interviews, interactions with people, travel to different areas, body practices and experiments like non-verbal communication, collective sleeping sessions, where re-search becomes also re-learning, re-forgetting, re-inter-acting. With the help of different materials and processes, the places of connection are forming. She is also a co-founder of the artist collective OUTSIDEININSIDEOUTINSIDEOUTSIDEIN, alyakubouskaya.xyz