Resources and Links
A+E Collective
Dear Green Bothy
mariaology
Strathclyde Sleep Research Unit CPD
Sound Thought
SPAM Press
Thinking Culture
Publications
Midsummer Song (Hypercritique)
Forthcoming from NoUP in September 2024
Preorder here.
The second title in Tenement’s ‘No University Press’ series, Sledmere’s Song is an interrogative appendix of essayistic motifs and citational montage. A raised bed of a book, a syncopated study of mutualism, commonality, interdependence, and resilience.
Midsummer Song intermingles a lodestar of potent poetic sources into a lyric architecture which refuses to be singular in form or bound by convention. This book is plural—at once an elegy for our world—and also—seance and party you won't want to miss. Your tools, dear reader, include countless luminary texts, summer light while it lasts, meadows, cinders, glass, and clairvoyance. Can the poet be everywhere? If nuance is purple and writing is light, this book may convince us that dream space is the necessary elixir to take with us into impermanence, bursting with everything in the world, an ecstatic catalogue and a devastated delirium. Like Christensen's alphabet, this book at once beams and cautions—like a horn of plenty spiraling out from the ear of Athena, a cornucopia of Sledmere's poetic powers. No other poet can make me feel giddy at the end of the world, gorgeous with intimate tears and flight. Descendants of Bernadette Mayer rejoice—now at long last we can dream not only the winter's dark but also in summers blindingly bright. Like when we climb into the red- / threaded spiderweb / of another plague year / and we activate the starlight / stimulus package / in thermotaxis. –— -- Laynie Browne
Projects
The Dream Turbine
This online installation explores the relationship between sustainability and dreaming, offering a space to collectively share our dreams and have discussions surrounding these broader topics. The Dream Turbine was conceived by A+E Collective in collaboration with Niomi Fairweather and Jessica Bennett, as part of the Overmorrow Festival.
People
Adriana Alcarez-Sánchez - sleep researcher who looks at ‘the nature of phenomenal consciousness by drawing upon different philosophical traditions, such as analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and Eastern philosophy, as well as research from empirical sciences like cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Specifically, my research focuses on studying minimal forms of awareness during sleep, dreaming, and other associated states during wakefulness (including daydreaming and mind wandering).’
Douglas Pattison - illustrator and graphic design artist who provides visual assets for Project Somnolence
Mina Heydari-Waite - artist, facilitator and researcher who works on social dreaming