EVENT 'Oneiric Archaeologies' Social Dreaming Walk

Join award-winning British artist Gayle Chong Kwan to experience Avebury Neolithic stone circle through a Social Dreaming Walk amongst the stones as part of the development of her new newly commissioned work. The 'Oneiric Archaeologies' interactive exhibition and work will be shown later in 2025 touring to universities participating in the Avebury Papers AHRC project.

Meet outside the Threshing Barn in the Old Farmyard, Avebury
Free, but please register at this link so we know to wait for you.

1400 - 16.00 Friday 4th July 2025
Avebury UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Gayle Chong Kwan has been commissioned by Avebury Papers AHRC project to develop new work through being artist in residence at Avebury UNESCO World Heritage Site. Gayle Chong Kwan's new work Oneiric Archaeologies combines virtual reality, sound, tactile and ritual experience, and an ongoing dream archive to explore connections between archaeology and dreams. You are invited to experience the work using the headphones with tactile sculptures, explore the VR dream worlds, and contribute your own dream to the wall.

Gayle Chong Kwan’s multi-media work reimagines Avebury as a stone circle through which you are transported to surreal dream landscapes populated by collages, clay objects and tools, lidar scans, experimental archaeological objects, and more-than-human encounters. It features sounds recorded at Avebury’s Neolithic megalith stones, the plant and animal ecologies and in surrounding areas, including the military training at Salisbury Plains.

Gayle Chong Kwan draws together historical archaeologists’ dreams about Avebury from the Alexander Keiller Museum archives, contemporary dreams from Avebury archaeologists and volunteers, research on more-than-human dreaming, and digital, virtual, tactile and material making practices. The work reenacts and reimagines the collective re-shaping of megaliths at Avebury since the Neolithic period, and Avebury’s use as a place of ceremonial ritual and dream.

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4th July 2025

Avebury UNESCO World Heritage Site

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