wishing room —
a dialogical practice
This piece consists of an immersive space and a set of guiding texts. Gently and playfully, it enables two people to follow a ‘wishing choreography’ for diving deeply to expore a wish that one of the persons has — for example about some topic in their life.
I think of this piece as a series of nested "spaces": the curated physical space, the processual space of the wishing choreography and its written instructions, the interpersonal space between the two participants, the space of their own bodies, and finally the introspective dream-space of the wishing activity at the core of the choreography.
During the first public iteration of this piece I played the role of a host: welcoming guests, orienting them, and leading a short warm-up. Then I left them alone to do the wishing process themselves. In the future I hope to develop the guiding texts to the point where the role of the host becomes superfluous.
register for a 3-hour appointment.
ask someone to be your dialogue partner.
come together to the wishing room.
no wish is too small or too large, too weird
or too normal.
the two of you are invited to follow a set of
instructions for speaking and listening;
a choreography of sensing, imagining,
exploring and reflecting.
there are two distinct roles: one person
dialogues with, and about, a wish that lives
inside them. the other person guides the
process, based on written instructions; they
listen, support, accompany.
wishes can be vulnerable, precious,
pleasurable, painful, cliché, pernicious,
inspiring...
this is a space to listen to a wish in gentle,
playful, nonjudgmental ways — to hear
what is there, and to open to new
possibilities of desiring.
Photos: Irem Güngez