The Long Walk is a sequenced walk video in a loop, conceived in a vertical format for large human-sized displays. It brings the digital character into a state…
Dreamcatcher is a series that investigates the relationship between writing and memory through the prism of digitised dreams, seeking to expose their content to the awakened experience. By materialising personal dream recollections and their aesthetics over an extended period, the project is a continuous research punctuated by mixed-media installations progressively shedding light on mythologies of the transient and liminal. Three questions motivated the project: How can we represent something so elusive that we can only recollect in parts and brief moments? How can we make such an uncertain thing tangible while preserving its polysemy? Can we get more objective sources than their narrations? The interesting aspect of such questions, in both artistic and scientific views, is the tension between our scientific knowledge that establishes strong beliefs about the capacities of the human mind and the desire to deal with the bits that elude representation. Rebuilt with AI in 4 dimensions from brain and semantic data collected during my active sleep sessions and their awakened recollections, oniric landscapes, objects, and characters emerge to reveal this unknown of our lives and its role in human creative capacities. By materialising them, fleeting memories become tangible and make it possible to be re-experienced fully awake, within the aesthetic veil of the Pittoresque and how it deals with spatial compositions and sensible experiences.
The Long Walk is a sequenced walk video in a loop, conceived in a vertical format for large human-sized displays. It brings the digital character into a state of mutual encounter. Blue Fire Veil performs the endless ritual of walking through dreams. While never managing to cross the digital screen, both the audience and the shaman walk towards each other from two different realms. This looped journey transforms the walk into a kind of procession or pilgrimage, echoing a trans-state for both the spectator and the digital shaman.
The Long Walk is a sequenced walk video in a loop, conceived in a vertical format for large human-sized displays. It brings the digital character into a state of mutual encounter. Blue Fire Veil performs the endless ritual of walking through dreams. While never managing to cross the digital screen, both the audience and the shaman walk towards each other from two different realms. This looped journey transforms the walk into a kind of procession or pilgrimage, echoing a trans-state for both the spectator and the digital shaman.
Installation view, vertical TV display in corridor.
Series: Dreamcatcher
Version: 2.0.1
Title: The Long Walk
Year: 2026
Type: Video Installation
Authors: CompMonks, Silke Grabinger
Dimensions / Format: 98 inch vertical TV
Materials: var.
Production: CompMonks
Collaboration: Silke Grabinger - Artistic collaboration
©CompMonks, Silke Grabinger