They came dressed in their pajamas. Dozens of them. Last Saturday night, about 90 people entered the Rubin Museum of Art — a young museum devoted to exploring ancient Tibetan art, Buddhist philosophy, and modern scientific research — to sleep and dream, and have their dreams explained by psychoanalysts after they woke. Participants slept underneath works of art specifically chosen for them. They were told to bring their own bedding and toiletries. While some sought personal insight with the potential for future enlightenment, others simply wanted something unusual to do over the weekend.
A giant slumber party for adults, which organizers titled a “Dream-Over”, The Rubin’s event, which was the first of its kind, encouraged attendees to stop observing and start participating — albeit through slumber.
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Over the last few months, the Rubin Museum has invited various artists, writers and other famous creative types (think Alice Walker, David Byrne, John Adams) to interpret images from Carl Jung’s The Red Book with the help of a psychoanalyst. Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner took to the stage over the weekend with analyst Morgan Stebbins; after the jump find out what the ensuing conversation revealed about his creative process and the upcoming season of everyone’s favorite TV drama.
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Even if you haven’t wandered up to 5th Avenue at 89th Street recently, chances are you’ve heard whispers of something unusual afoot. That something is courtesy of performance artist Tino Sehgal, whose ephemeral pieces rely on empty space and spectator involvement. One such piece in his current solo show at the Guggenheim, titled “The Kiss,” involves a couple embracing on the floor of the rotunda in a “changing, slow-motion, amorous” entanglement. We at Flavorpill love staging elaborate photo shoots in museums and decided to reinterpret Sehgal’s performance piece in five New York City art institutions: The Metropolitan Museum, New Museum, Rubin Museum, P.S.1, and the Brooklyn Museum. Could we choreograph the same magic?
Play voyeur and peep our exclusive slideshow after the jump.
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