托梦库
Ancestor Dream Visitation Repository

“We help the dead to be or become what they are; we don’t invent them” — Vinciane Despret

Dream visitations — 托梦 — tuomeng — are a portal between realms, like two tin cans connected by string.  托 means to entrust with a message or request. 梦, dream, is made with forest and dusk; dreams then, are the dark, lush jungles we enter at night. In that darkness is a gate to the other side. At heart, tuomeng is a discourse on love, opportunity for recourse, remedy for loneliness, stream for divine aid — depending if the visitor is departed loved one, murdered individual, plant, deity, or other, “engaged in a joint transformative process with the living” (Magali Molinié).

Within the syncretic Chinese religious paradigm, 托梦 (tuōmèng) means to be visited in dreams by departed loved ones or deities with a message to convey. The scrying of these dreams, at times in informal consultation with Chinese religious goods merchants or mediums, is often a pragmatic act of inference for rituals sending money and gifts by fire.

Ancestor Dream Visitation Repository is a research experiment collecting, theorising and translating ancestor dream visitations towards new notions of lineage, remembrance and spirituality for the living descendant / future ancestor. Artistic processes alchemically transmute spiritual intentions into creative manifestations sitting between art and life. Occupying the thin veil space between sleep and wake, living and dead, ADVR posits expanded definitions of ancestor while cultivating a community of dreamers touching portals.

While the Repository emerges from research within the Chinese religious paradigm, it is secular and reaches widely to learn from different practices and perspectives. All are welcome regardless of background. Ancestors do not need to be biological.

在兼容並蓄的中華宗教文化中，託夢指的是被已故的親人或神明在夢中拜訪並傳達暗示或信息。在解夢的過程中，信徒通常會向廟宇或乩身尋求答案。在新加坡習俗中，他們往往會向金紙店諮詢，該燒什麼樣的紙錢或禮品給祖先或神明以獻上敬意。

託夢庫是一項實驗性的研究計畫，旨在收集、理論化和翻譯託夢的情境，為活著的後代子孫/未來的祖先，對血統傳承、紀念祖先和靈性提出新的概念。這個共同創作的過程就像煉金術，將靈性感受轉化為藝術與生活的表現形式。

雖然這個數據庫屬於中華宗教文化的範疇，但它是世俗的，並且廣泛地從不同的實踐和觀點中學習。無論背景如何，所有人都歡迎貢獻與討論，並提出了祖先不一定需要生物上的血緣關係的有趣觀點。

Baibai Research Group (BBRG) is a transdisciplinary art platform operating at the intersections of spirituality, ancestry and relationality. Its current research focuses on ancestor worship as creative posthumous relationship development, dream visitations, embodied lineal practices, and the dying trade of Chinese religious goods merchants.

託夢庫作為拜拜研究組的研究項目，一個跨領域的藝術平台，嘗試在靈性、血統和關係性的交叉點上運作。目前的研究聚焦於 :祖先崇拜的創意思考、生人與死後世界的關係發展，直系血統的具現化實踐，以及宗教用品行業的衰敗。

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