Tropical Lab 10

Tropical Lab 10 is the 10th edition of an annual international art camp and exhibition organised by LASALLE College of the Arts. Practising artists and students from major international art schools and institutions embark on a collective journey to explore history, geography, economics and aesthetics.

This year’s theme, Fictive dreams, loosely alludes to Sigmund Freud’s The interpretation of dreams (1899) and John Gardner’s The art of fiction: Notes on craft for young writers (1991). The camp invites the participants to delve into fictional worlds where dreams and nightmares probe our notions of reality. How can art project ideas and scenarios of the future? And how do fiction and dreams inform our experience of the contemporary world—a world that is plagued by unimagined maelstroms?