Join us on 24 May for an in person immersive Lunchtime Talk session at the Tavistock Institute office space @63 Gee Street in London.

Juliet Scott, Bongsu Park, and Marie Beauchamps, the three artists involved in our current exhibition Social Dreams, Social Matters: Artistic Affluence in Social Dreaming, bring together different practices inspired by social dreaming. The exhibition critically explores the generative and performative nature of dreaming, connecting the richness of artistic responses with the theory and practice of Social Dreaming a radical exercise in sharing, associating to and working with dreams.

For this lunchtime session, Juliet Scott, Bongsu Park, and Marie Beauchamps create an immersive container that includes experimenting with a new form of social dreaming matrix as informed by the artists different practices. What emerges will continue the explorations unfolding in their work together, building on the ongoing conversation between these works and the practice space of the Tavistock Institute.

Grounded in their practices and the story of their collaboration with TIHR, the artists invite you to join them in an inquiry that touches upon the power of dreams and their potential to change how we think about ourselves and the wider world. This is also an invitation to explore the significance of the artists presence in organisational ecologies, including processes of archiving and translation, taking dreams and social dreaming into the digital realm.

There will be an opportunity to look around and enjoy the exhibition after the session.

Juliet Scott

I am an artist in social practice. Through drawing, paint and print, I study groups of people and objects and their ecological relationships within a wider landscape. I elaborate this into interactions, interventions, installations with individuals, groups and organisations creating challenging and complex settings for meaningful learning and social change. I call this ‘sentient excavation’ – deriving from leading the Institute’s archive, and which is an...

Bongsu Park

Bongsu Park is a London-based, multidisciplinary Korean artist and long-term collaborator with the Tavistock Institute.  Her recent work is founded on how our innermost thoughts may connect with other people’s and how these can then be shared publicly through dreams. She has exhibited internationally including at Zona Maco Arte Contemporáneo, México, FIAC, France, and The Moving Image Istanbul, Turkey. Her performance work was shown at Camden Arts...

Marie Beauchamps

Marie Beauchamps is an Amsterdam-based poet, a creative entrepreneur, an academic, and a policy officer at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has published extensively on citizenship and affective politics, now engaging with questions of pedagogy and knowledge-writing practices in their relation to knowledge production. She is one of the pioneering practitioners of Deepening Creative Practice with Organisations.