Infos
2025
Performance / preview of the upcoming exhibition The Mind-Body Problem at KorSonoR festival Geneva.
Conversation between Sophie Schwartz, neuroscientist and professor at the University of Geneva, and Robin Meier Wiratunga on sleep and dreams, accompanied by moments of collective listening in the temperate greenhouse of the Geneva Botanic Garden.
Birds dream. They dream in songs and melodies that they may later sing in waking life. This scientific discovery forms the starting point for an artistic research project that Meier Wiratunga is developing with neuroscientists and ethologists. In this collaboration, the aim is to make bird dreams audible. By comparing the brain activity of a singing bird with that of a dreaming one, an algorithm decodes and reconstructs imagined sonic fragments from the sleeping bird’s mind. Positioned at the intersection of neurobiology, artificial intelligence and the sound of dreams, the project also raises broader questions – about animal perception of time, the embodied nature of consciousness and how reality is constructed.
