Please scroll down to see press release and recent pictures from the Traumbagger Event on April 18,19 and 21 2008 Please visit www.culturalinquiry.org for press information
		Traumbagger is a trans-media, immersive art event that brings together new media and ageless rituals to explore the cross-cultural phenomena of dreaming. Traumbagger draws from various recognizable 21st century art practices—video installation, performance, cinematic environments and fictive narration. These traditions are immediately recognizable in the Traumbagger’s external form which is a tent-like, translucent structure floating on a platform of ice—with flickering images on, in and projected from it—that draws strong visual links to carnival, side show,phantasmagoria and the camera obscura. But no one tradition is as important to this event as the genre of installation and performance art that depends on the audience and their interactive participation for the completion of the artwork. Meaning and intent for Traumbagger is revealed through the visitors’ physical engagement with the installation during the specified time span of each showing but also after the event, with responses sent through the mail on pre-arranged feedback documents. Each response opens up a range of possible readings for Traumbagger: aesthetic, archetypical, psychological, social, as well as the purely unexplainable. Together this feedback helps to re- contextualize Traumbagger’s past while it also contributes to Traumbagger’s future form(s). Traumbagger is a project of The Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI), a peripatetic organization made up of artists, writers, scientists, and other visual thinkers whose activities are centered on exploring and unraveling social and cultural trends through a wide range of visual methods. Traumbagger was created and has been developed by Axel Forrester and Lise Patt, with varying participation by other Associates of ICI. Traumbagger-Greenville is supported by Friends and Associates of ICI and by the Solomon Guggenheim Museum.  It is also supported in part by a grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.  These programs are funded in part by a generous award from the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of SC.  This Project is also sponsored in part by the South Carolina Governor’s Schoolfor the Arts and Humanities and by Artisphere.  Special Thanks to the Surdna Foundation for its support. To find out how to order the catalogue pleasecontact Axel Forrester at AxelForrester@scgsah.state.sc.us or www.culturalinquiry.org    or www.1otherworld.com
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