How can intentional engagement with dreams potentially facilitate reconnections with ancestral memories lost to us?
How can we foster dream translation as an indigenous practice for healing from the shame of loss? Loss of ancestral memory, loss of sacred indigenous healing practices, loss of systems of knowledge taken and forgotten in the wake of colonial expansion.
This artistic research is facilitated by and derived from Jason Jacobs's practice exploring connections between ancestral dreams/dreaming. He offers approaches and indigenous storymaking practices for translating dreams as creative and restorative calls to action that envision new futures through performance.
Production Credits
Workshop Facilitator: Jason Jacobs
About the Artists
Jason Jacobs's artistic interest is informed by his practice as an amagqirha-in-training and a Nama-Khoi-indigenous descendant living and practising in Kharkams. He understands dreams as lived/living spaces for healing and the embodiment of ancestral knowledge, which informs his reading of dreams (and translating them) as an indigenous healing practice and methodology. Working with dreams as spaces for healing, roots questions in the shame of loss as defining markers of his indigenous identity formation. Jacobs intentionally engages with this inherited and lived shame, acknowledging it as an ongoing path to healing (an act in progress and a call to action). Jacobs relies on the transformative potential of indigenous storytelling in his one-person play titled Kraal, to confront this shame of loss by writing and performing his own story-healing about a tragic hero character who is imagining new futures for his community.
- Venue: Lucas Avenue Footpath
- Location: Lucas Avenue
- Programme type: Curated Programme
- Genre: ArtTalk
- Duration: 120 minutes
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Ages:
ALL AGES
- Language: English
