Fake Territories

For the last seventeen years, Barbara Breitenfellner has been jotting down art-related dreams. Her installations are constructions of these nightly recordings. The descriptions of the dreams function often as both work instructions and work titles. In the continuation of other artists and writers dealing with dream recollections (William S. Burroughs, Heinar Kipphardt, Jim Shaw, Unica Zürn, and many others), she uses her protocols to create condensed and distorted, often absurd or ironic representations of making and exhibiting art and being an artist.