Beatrice Gibson: Dreaming Alcestis

‘Dreaming Alcestis’ is an artist’s book by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, conceived as an accompaniment to her holographic film installation of the same name. ‘Dreaming Alcestis’ was co-directed and co-scripted by Gibson, her partner Nicholas Gordon and critic Maria Nadotti. The publication features a specially commissioned essay by poet and translator Allison Grimaldi Donahue, as well as a reprint of the American poet Alice Notley’s 1991 essay ‘What Can Be Learned From Dreams?’.