Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2023 Presentation — Intentional dreaming: a strategy for worldmaking by Chidumaga Uzoma Orji

Synopsis

How can a consistent, intentional practice of dreaming help us birth communities, towns and cities that reflect our highest hopes? This interactive presentation explores how collective hope can be cultivated by deliberately defining the futures we desire. With the phrase “you cannot actualise what you cannot visualise” as its mantra, this session unveils an ethos of worldmaking that helps us reject realities that do not serve progressive futures. The goal is to regain ownership of dreaming, too often maligned as an idle waste of time, as a potent force to aid in our quest for liberation.

About Chidumaga Uzoma Orji

A visual and experiential artist, and creative technologist, Uzoma is concerned with unpacking post-colonial crises of identity, fuelling imagination in service of progressive African futures, and exploring ancestral spirituality through a contemporary-day lens, all with a view to contributing to a liberated, free, and healed African psyche. He has exhibited work at Here, There and Everywhere – Format Festival (2021), CultureHub – Re-Fest (2020) and LagosPhoto Festival (2019).

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