'The Dreamer is Still Asleep' is part of our ‘How We Used to Sleep’ programme, exploring the ‘golden age’ of sleep in Tudor England in partnership with Manchester University.
Like many homes of the time, Little Moreton Hall was a space of social engagement where many came to visit, and, with hustle and bustle all around and irregular patterns of life for guests and household alike, a sound night’s sleep was often an impossibility.
'The Dreamer is Still Asleep' is a sound and aromatic installation that explores the transcendent state between sleeping and waking with sounds that would once have filled the hall.
A sensory experience
Take a seat in the garden and enjoy a sonic experience of blurry dreamfulness, where voices, music, footsteps and glasses clinking together merge with a musical ambience to create a relaxing and atmospheric experience.
Scanner says, "To me a building is always more than just a building. It’s a place of memory, of engagement, a place that reflects history. Little Moreton Hall offers up a wealth of history. Imagine if even the walls themselves could tell of all the events of the past, the stories they’ve witnessed. The location itself radiates with history.
My work will bring the place alive in subtle ways previously unimagined, opening up the space in so many new ways, and letting the ghosts of the past bring new joy to contemporary visitors."
Scanner - Robin Rimbaud
Scanner is internationally recognised artist and composer Robin Rimbaud, whose works traverse the experimental terrain between music, film and art.
Over the last twenty-five years he has focused on bringing to life many of the invisible or overlooked aspects of our world in ways that embrace both the cultural and historical in a playful, engaging and thoughtful manner.
