לשלוח ישראל Sleeping for Tomorrow info

Sleeping for Tomorrow project 2021-24

1. Background

2. Project goals

3. Development and timeline of the project:

-Part 1. Physical part
-Part 2. Virtual part
-Part 3. Website and a blog

4. Next steps for collaborations

The Sleeping for Tomorrow project is a social art project created by the Israeli-German visual artist
Amit Goffer

1. Background:

Facing unpredicted worldwide uncertainty and changes, we discover significant internal and external changes that affect all human beings:
The values and the way we live, questions about values, global and political issues, and intense emotions arise, such as stress and overwhelming hope, to name a few.

We strive to communicate in ways we never thought we would need, which are now necessary in our daily lives.

The unfolding global story of the pandemic has raised questions about our values, and the validity of familiar norms which we live by and believe in. There is a global search for the “new” stable and the “new” consistent in this world whose story is still being written as we speak.

2. Project goals:

This work aims to connect you and others worldwide in the name of art and people. It brings people closer, reflecting on the past, the present, and beyond.

It also tries to connect people from different countries, religions, and life stages and to create communication between people.
It dreams of a new vision of the world, the environment, and everyone within it.

This is a work in progress, It is developing daily with new features and information (connecting the physical and digital worlds, conversations and discussions-ideas about art and emotionality in our time, behind-the-scene stories, videos, and information on how the work was created and changed over time).

* The vision is to create the connection of a worldwide network of human voices and emotions by embracing and merging the physical and virtual spaces.

** Currently, we are searching for project partners who are interested in the following:

*The fastest & easiest is to share the virtual experience and the project website by putting up different colorful posters with QR codes - in cities, urban public places, and art/culture institutions- it will send them to the virtual experience for their specific country, and a link to the project's entire website,

*Temporarily installing the WW2-bunker / Sleeping for Tomorrow #0.1 existing ready installation

*Development of more installations in new places, for or new site-specific installations in specific locations with recording and hearing box **
*Talks & Discussions

This social art project contains three parts:
More info in the Sleeping for Tomorrow website

3. Development and timeline of the project:
Part 1. Virtual part:
online from the middle of September 2021

Connecting the physical and digital worlds.

The internet permits new possibilities for communication.
For example, we can go into virtual amorphous bent space with digital software (Virtual Experience) connected to the world wide web- by Mobile Phone/ Computer.
Via a website created by the artist, visitors can enter and exit this virtual bunker and explore the surrounding areas and the new experience.

In this bunker on the website, there is also a feature that can connect to people all over the world to hear, record, and share photos of a spark of our own experience, short significant
moments of people here / around the world wondering about our existence, time, and space.

With the help of a special recording system located inside the physical bunker and the digital software on the website, people inside the bunker and on the internet can hear and record the voices of themselves and other people as well as share images and memories, connecting to the greater story of us all.

* The development of a virtual map shown on the website:
This map feature connects all of the countries that people went into using the virtual project and also connects the people that joined and reacted to the physical bunker parameters and Sleeping for Tomorrow #1.

The interaction by countries and locations, visitors in “real life,” virtual visitors, and physical activity are shown on the map.

These features were released in the middle of January 2022

For the map

* A visual platform shows new networks by collaborating with the project physically or virtually.

This virtual network shows different events and engagement
with cultural institutions, conversations, and interviews.
.

The digital software

* Recording and hearing boxes installed in the one-man bunker

Part 2. Website and a blog:
Started in the middle of September 2021

Behind-the-scenes and the development of the project This part features selected information that gives more insight into the initial concept and the ongoing changes over time.

This features conversations from art and science backgrounds discussing ideas about art and emotions in our time.

This feature started in April 2022

This website and blog constantly change and connect with Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram social media platforms.

The Blog
*The future vision for this site is to create discussion and communication between people, with topics about feelings, art, and society, to bring new ideas that emerge from the people.

In 2022 and 2023, we focused on the idea and impact of the Corona and art with conversations with artists & people from the art world from Cambodia, Oslo and, Zambia, South Korea, Ireland, the USA, UK.
Next step:

From mid-2023, we will focus more on artists/ people from the global culture community, from around the world who focus on Involvement in society, the conflicts, confidence, and the unknown, and how art can bridge this situation—starting with Myanmar in mid-June.

Part 3. Physical part:
started May 2021
This part of the work is a real German WW2 one-man bunker- fund half-buried at the border of the city of Neuss, where it was constructed at that time- was saved from destruction by the Israeli-German artist Amit Goffer.

The Bunker underwent changes that allowed the viewer to experience different physical and emotional situations. By inviting audience participation, the work takes on a performative dimension that becomes further interpreted and realized through interaction – for the visitor and others.
There is a button that, when pressed, can record their voices to share a significant moment with others. At the same time, the visitor also can listen to the recorded voices and messages from other visitors.

Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen, May 2021
Sleeping for tomorrow part,1

mixed media, German one-men bunker from WW2, stainless steel, sound, digital software connected to the internet, 260 x 140 cm

Sleeping for Tomorrow, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, March 2022
Sleeping for Tomorrow project #0.1
A site-specific object, located between the intimate and the unhindered space, an alternative way of communication is offered mixed media, aluminum, plastic, sound, and digital software connected to the internet, 210 x 109 x 108 cm

Sleeping for Tomorrow project #0.1, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Sleeping for Tomorrow Flag, SPACE
Collection, Liège, Belgium Augost 2022

4. Next steps for collaborations:

*** Currently, we are searching for project partners who are interested in either share:

* The Fastest way is to share the website and the virtual experience with a QR code by printing, as an example a poster/plexiglass (between A1 to A3 size)-in cities, urban public places, and art/culture institutions.- hanging it inside/window, if possible, so that it is displayed and printed, if possible, on both sides/outside, so that people can intervene from inside and out, involve and share with other people from their specific country- Israel, Argentina, etc.-and connect to the around the world a significant experience from the past two years.

The poster is divided into one/ two sides: one is written in English, and the other is in the language used in the country where the poster is displayed.

* A new special programming was developed, made to see the virtual experience from your country - A cosmos of the state of opinion and feelings in the country - and a link for the global virtual experience part (From mid-May 2023)

There is a protection mechanism against recordings, photos, and nasty things; the materials were sent to an intermediate system for approval and then sent to the experience.

* Installing existing part of the project: the temporary installation of the WW2- The bunker is being exhibited in the sculpture garden Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster Aachen, Germany. And is free to move to a new location.
Sleeping for Tomorrow #0.1
available from July- after programming and adjustment according to the country it will be shown

* Development of more installations inside existing/ new places: for or new site-specific installations in specific locations with recording and hearing boxes similar to the one installed in the one-man bunker and at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, in significant urban/natural places all over the world.

* Possible development in cooperation with the communities of the regions: This collaboration also includes building it on-site by the locally involved people, bringing the uniqueness of the history into account when building a site-specific installation.

* In all of the installations, there will be one thing similar:
It is a place situated inside the space, but it still has a connection to the outside world and will become part of the global project system reflected in the animation on the website.

*Talks & Discussions
From mid-2023, we would like to focus on developing and being in contact with more artists from different parts of the world and from the global cultural community, who focus on involvement in society, conflicts, confidence in the unknown, and how art can be a bridge in this situation—starting with Myanmar at the mid June.

Contact:

Amit Goffer
Lossau - Goffer Studio GbR
Karolingerststrasse 28,
40223 Düsseldorf

mob. + 4 9 ( 0 ) 1 7 4 -7080317
[email protected]
www.amitgoffer.info

Studio Neuss:
Hansastrasse 7-9,
41460 Neuss

*Sleeping for Tomorrow project 2021-24*

3. Development and timeline of the project:Part 1. Virtual part:online from the middle of September 2021 Connecting the physical and digital worlds.