Daydreams | A workshop and presentation by Frida Robles and Lasse Mouritzen
We hosted Daydreams, a workshop by Frida Robles and Lasse Mouritzen, as part of a transatlantic research exercise between Copenhagen, Mexico City, Vienna and Delhi. The site-responsive project explored various sites around Lado Sarai—a public park, a derelict DDA land repurposed as an evening sabzi mandi, and the office terrace—prompting its participants to annotate each site with individual responses and cursory speculations. The workshop which was held on the 7th, traced how narration and imagination shift our experiences of spaces and inform our sense of belonging. On the 9th, Frida and Lasse also gave a presentation where they walked us through previous iterations of the project, demonstrating how each location has its own intertwining dream-logics and spatialities and how daydreaming itself as an act is so culturally rooted, monitored and inhabited.
Workshop Date: Saturday 7 January 2026
Time: 3 PM - 7 PM
Venue: the FICA Reading Room, Lado Sarai, New Delhi
About the workshop:
Inviting participants to daydream with us. To dream of possible/impossible performances that are corporalized in the body as well as in text. Which dreams are there, latent in the spaces that surround us? Which words describe those dreams? Which movements? How to think about space together, from the body and the words? Is there a difference between the corporeal and grammatical syntax of the world?
We kindly ask for your help and contribute to our research project entitled “Daydream - a transoceanic research on site-responsive performance.” In this research, we are curious to explore performative stages between city and dream.unfolding as a transatlantic research exercise between Copenhagen, Mexico City, Vienna and Delhi, we will work with site responsive practice to explore the city, exceeding the idea of the city as a site into a state of mind. We hope this will question the role of sites in contemporary artistic practice and the correlation between performativity and documentation.
Please note:
In the workshop, we will do some exercises in imagining possible performances. These exercises also aim to think of ideas in an open, collaborative and interdisciplinary manner.
Please bring a notebook and warm clothing for being outside, as we will be outside most of the time.
About the facilitators:
Frida Robles is a Mexican artist and curator. She believes in the idea of social poetics and through her practice, attempts to create spaces for mourning and healing. Her work varies from public art installations to performances to written texts. She teaches at the Theatre, Film and Media Studies of Vienna University.
Lasse Mouritzen (he/him) has a background in urbanism and performance art. Based in Copenhagen, he currently works as a dramaturg and producer at Sudhavn Theatre and Sort/Hvid Theatre, and maintains a freelance practice as a visual artist and curator.