Camille Turner, Dream Room, 2022, Sonic meditation (05:30). Drywall, joint compound and various construction materials, haunting presence of African cultural belongings in the institution’s collection, dreams of a liberated Afrofuture. Set constructed by Nico Fleming. Photographed by Paul Litherland and curated and commissioned by Myung-Sun Kim for the Fugitive Rituals exhibition at Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

Dream Room (2022)

Drawing on memory, the imaginative space of world-making, and the human capacity to dream, Turner’s Dream Room is a sonic portal that offers a glimpse of a future in which the elusive dream of freedom has been achieved. This work builds on Turner’s Afronautic methodology—walking, listening, feeling, imagining, and responding to the remnants of  past, present, and future. Dream Room invites visitors to sit with a meditation guided by African cultural belongings languishing in underground vaults. These spirits, left behind by African descended people who made their exodus from earth to create liberated worlds on other stars, call upon the travellers to return to earth to recover their sacred knowledge for the future. Dream Room (2022) was created for Fugitive Rituals, an exhibition curated by Myung-Sun Kim at the Agnes Etherington Gallery. 

Project design collaborator: Nicolas Fleming

Composer/sound engineer: Ravi Naimpally