The Republic of Dreams is a digital project and traveling installation dedicated to adapting the literary worlds of Bruno Schulz, through different mediums, all inspired by dreams and dreaming. As a website, The Republic hosts 9 sonic works, in Polish and English, by sound designers Eli Stine and Jackson Bierfeldt, music by Wacław Zimpel, a video by Jakub Krejčí, texts by Mika Johnson, and an illustrated map by Marta Lissowska. As a traveling installation, visitors can experience exclusive sound and video works by the same artists, within settings intended to help people dream.



Client:
The Adam Mickiewicz Institut

Release date:
July 2021 – ongoing


The Republic of Dreams


Created in partnership with
The Adam Mickiewicz Institute 
and the Goethe-Institut in Warsaw

Produced by
Daisy with Rider Productions

Concept and direction by
Mika Johnson

Partner
Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature, Warsaw


All works by
Bruno Schulz and The Dream Collective

Sound designer
Jackson Bierfeldt

Project director, concept, texts
Mika Johnson

Video
Jakub Krejčí

Web design
David Lipkovič

Artistic director, illustrator
Marta Lissowska

English voice
Julie Josephson

Polish voice
Olga Mikulska 

Sound designer
Eli Stine 

Composer
Sofia Tamara-Shmidt (Awali)
Wacław Zimpel

Assistant director
Ján Tompkins

All texts translated by 
Celina Wieniewska


Permission granted by
Bloomsbury Publishing