The Artist’s Dream: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
A commissioned art installation by Teresa Wilson and Julie House for Levy Fringe Festival of Arts 2020.
Stepping into the turbulent mind of the artist.
The exhibition takes as its starting point the nightmarish vision in the work of artists from the Romantic Movement of the late 18th century.
The uncanny sculpture puppet installation, crosses over the space between sculpture, installation and theatre into an alternative dream room of feverish imagination.
Definition of the word Sucubus = Nightmare
A nightmare, anything that weighs heavily on the mind. In medieval times it denoted an evil demon who was supposed to have sexual intercourse with women during their sleep (Late Latin. incubus, a nightmare).
Women may now go saufly up and down;
In every bussh or under every tree,
Ther is noon oother incubus but he,
And he ne wol doon hem but dishonour.
CHAUCER: Wife of Bath’s Tale, 1.24.
Succubus (suk u bus)
(Medieval Latin masculine form of Late Latin succuba, from succumbere, to lie under). A female demon fabled to have sexual relations with sleeping men.
Definitions taken from The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase & Fable.
