Doreen CHAN, who was born in Hong Kong and now lives in Chicago, invites people to share their incomplete dreams through her platform halfdream.org. Chan then matches strangers based on the connections in their dreams, believing that something within the subconscious can help us see and remember the ways we are similar when external and political forces seem intent on manifesting division. As the sentences appear on the screen in Chan’s video artwork “HalfDream”, there is an immediate sense of recognition—dreams of rushing, losing things, being in foreign places, alienated from oneself, or simply not oneself are perhaps more universal than we acknowledge.
Interview >