In the central space on the ground floor of MoBY, Ohad Meromi presents an installation for daydreaming (Structure for Rest, 2016) in which viewers are invited to rest their heads and fantasize about a different world. The notion of daydreaming is taken from Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch and his monumental Principle of Hope (written in the U.S. in 1938-1947 and published in 1954-1959 following Bloch’s move to East Germany). The installation will travel around the museum spaces throughout the year, during which sleep practice and sleep choreography workshops will take place.
In his introduction to The Principle of Hope, Bloch writes: “Art is the major repository of the images, archetypes, and symbols of the Not-Yet-Conscious, supplying us with the guiding-images that venture beyond the statics of the known world.” Bloch discusses how utopian societies exist within the realm of dreams. One of the main objectives of The Kids Want Communism is to create a space where visitors can examine what happened and what could happen 99 years from the October Revolution. By creating a space intended for rest and daydreaming, Meromi invited viewers to harness artistic practice as means to imagine utopia- to dare visualize what could be.