Anna Dacqué

Jelly Night takes on the idea of sleepwalking as seen through the eyes of a Walt Disney animation, and fuses it with Yat-Kha’s trance-like music. The colour is drained from the film and everything slows down. As Yat-Kha is singing about his childhood love to a great river, the flowing music opens a lucid dreamspace. This state of consciousness borders on dreaming, but is one where the dreamer is aware that she’s dreaming. We are wandering through the night, lead by the music like Donald Duck is lead by Daisy, and though there does not seem to be an aim to this strange, dreamy rhythm, music and image, city and landscape, viewer and viewed melt into each other. Sigmund Freud has claimed that dreaming is just another form of thought. In this twilight zone, consciousness and the unconscious move as one. Perhaps this is what it takes to conjure new hallucinations that allow for more than a level of criticality.

Anna Dacqué (b. in Vienna, 1964) is an artist based in Berlin.
Thanks to Yat-Kha och Global Music Centre.

Work

Jelly-Night, 2018

Location

Luleå konsthall
17.11.2018–17.2.2018