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
