Experience a Night Within a Work of Art
Enter the draw for a chance to spend a night in Dream Hotel Room #1, an immersive installation conceived by artist Carsten Höller in collaboration with researcher Adam Haar.
Have you ever dreamed of sleeping inside a work of art?
This summer, LUMA Arles invites you to a unique experience: spend a night in an installation designed to influence your dreams.
Created by artist Carsten Höller in collaboration with MIT researcher Adam Haar, Dream Hotel Room #1 is far more than just a place to sleep. It is an immersive, sensory artwork designed to make you dream… of flying.
In a dark, circular space, a gently swaying bed simulates the sensation of flight, while a “flying” mushroom sculpture is brought to life above the sleeper. On the soundtrack, a voicereminds them to dream of flying. Here, the boundaries of the real and imagined are blurred.
1 winner per month 〰️ 5 dates to be won
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Wednesday, June 25 (draw on June 16)
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Tuesday, July 22 (draw on June 16)
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Thursday, August 28 (draw on June 16)
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Thursday, September 25 (draw on September 1)
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Thursday, October 23 (draw on September 1)
Schedule:
- From 10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m.
The experience is designed for one person. However, the winner may be accompanied by one guest.
The artwork
Since 2008, Carsten Höller has been creating hotel rooms within museums, in which visitors can spend time, sleep, and stay the night. Together with scientist Adam Haar, a researcher at MIT, he has been developing a new series of seven “dream rooms”, created to influence visitors’ dreams. Each room is designed to target a different aspect of dreaming. While Haar’s research focus is on how dreams can improve mental health, this project instead aims to experiment with the impossible by provoking dreams that transcend norms.
Through the transformation of dreams and the challenges they present, both dangerous and stimulating, Höller and Haar offer a singular experience that is simultaneously introspective, imaginary, and somatic.
Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind.
Adam Haar
The exhibition
This experience is part of the exhibition Streaming from Our Eyes (evolving title, formerly "Dance with Daemons"), a major experimental exhibition that explores the interconnections between art and reality and the ways in which artists’ works relate to each other.
Through immersive installations, as well as paintings, sculptures, photographs, and new technologies, the exhibition brings together a diverse network of more than fifty contemporary artists who have defined the development of current cultural practices.