These stories in the most uncensored realm – often of ancestors, chosen family, friends and strangers at once far and close – speak to our intuition, deepest fears and desires, solidarity and complicity, and ancestral knowledges that have been denied from marginalized communities.
Drawing from Chinese Taoist cosmology and shamanistic practices in Northeastern Asia, this project views dreams as one of the least surveilled/(self)-censored forms of knowledge—a direct and unfiltered means of relearning and healing. At the intersection of ongoing global conflicts, genocides, and social movements, the work holds collective dreams in a womb-like, fugitive space for (im)migrants and marginalized communities, who are constantly being put through a transitory and crisis-response state. The work asks to center rest and care and examines the radical potential of collective dreaming as a political form for creative infrastructure (re)building and alternative healing.
This project is supported by CulturePush’s 2025 Fellowship for Utopian Practice and VAE Raleigh’s 2025-26 Snapdragon Fund. Be on the look out for an open call in the fall 2025 – and feel free to email us your dreams before then!
