Other things happen most days, not just writing and video sometimes, but what I call work organises something. I could begin with a Tarkovsky moment more than thirty years ago or with a dream and the dream follows looking again at e-flux cosmism texts.
The dream involves museum people and a project involves working on coastal fields. The site (and there are a few) comes with neglected animals and museum employees ahd half spoilt documents, photos and paintings and there’s no agreement about what is to be done. I want to be involved, but decisions are put off in the dream. It follows reading an e-flux text and the location could have something to do with the Zone in Tarkovsky’s film, Stalker.
I’ve mentioned a few proposals and nothing sticks... and art world proposals aren’t necessarily part of a trajectory... but like the idea of a proposal that comes with a dream. I mention a few coordinates, but dont want to spoil the party at this stage. It’s just a dream or just a dream proposal.
Proposals sometimes lead to diffidence. This one has no real form as a proposal and can't be taken seriously and art world proposals necessarily fall apart. But dreaming I’ve dreamt a proposal seems a good starting point and coordinates can be the coordinates of a proposal in due course. The proposition becomes a little clearer. I'll make the case for a project based on dreaming and will avoid coordinates that could have something to do with psychoanalysis.
I'll take a dream (perhaps this one) and turn dream coordinates into an art proposal.
Christopher Sands, production still, 2014
Christopher Sands, production still, 2010
Christopher Sands, production still, 2010
Christopher Sands, production still, 2017
Christopher Sands, production still, 2018