DREAMLAND: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and their Circle 1926-1972
An exhibition celebrating the centennial of Freud's visit to Coney Island. The show features "Dream Films" made by members of the society, a working model of an amusement park designed to illustrate Freud's theories by the visionary founder of the society Albert Grass, as well as drawings, letters and many unusual artifacts.

Exhibition: Kiosk Gallery
Dates: October 6th to mid November 2010
Place: Jozef Kluyskensstraat 2 BE-9000 Gent, Belgium

Read aboutthe exhibition in The NewYork Times, see a slide show and movie.
Read my interview about the project in Art Papers
A book and DVD that compliments the show is now available through Amazon
View the Society's award winning Dream Films here.

THE ADVENTURES OF A DREAMER BY ALBERT GRASS

Exhibition: Viktor Wynd Fine Art
Date: June 12, 2010
Place: 11 Mare Street , London E8 4RP
Dates: September 2nd to October 2nd 2010

Twenty five pictures that comprise the dream journal of Albert Grass, founder of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society.

Many of his anxieties speak directly to us today. Grass suffered the aftereffects of a brutal war. He worried about his neighbors being evicted. He felt the guilt of an artist who feels she should be more deeply engaged in a struggle for social justice. Employing the language of the comic book, he attempted to find ways to graphically manifest the unconscious. Though he was a man of my grandfather's generation, I think of him as my alter-ego. And as I look at the drawings, I find myself experiencing an almost uncanny sense of déjà vu. It is as if I myself had dreamed them too.

HISTORY OF A FIXED IDEA AND A MODERN CASE OF POSSESSION
Installation comprising of a wooden theater into which moving images are projected, two stereoscopic HD videos each 11 minutes, color, sound. 2007

Cast: Shelley Hirsch, Steven Rattazzi, Jay Smith, Rachel Neuman, Aubyn Philabaum, Tea Alagic
Musical Director: Shelley Hirsch
Technical realization: Zoe Beloff and Eric Muzzy

This installation centers on the idea of "staging the unconscious”. Each theater presents a hysterical drama. These include “History of a Fixed Idea” and “A Modern Case of Possession” in which two patients of the famous French psycho-pathologist Pierre Janet, express their delusions in song.

Experience a web version of all five theaters here.

A book/DVD and limited edition print are published by the Christine Burgin Gallery. You can explore these projects by going to The Somnambulists Book. The book/DVD is available through Amazon.

Exhibition: The installation will be include in Magic Show A British Arts Council touring exhibition curated by Sally O'Reilly and Jonathan Allen
30 July - 12 September 2010
Chapter, Cadiff
6 October - 19 December 2010
Pump House Gallery, London