“Trance as Technique is a collective exploration of hypnosis as both an artistic and somatic practice. Through guided visualization, breath work, subtle movement, vocal practice and embodied exercises, participants are invited to enter altered states of perception where imagination and sensation intertwine. The workshop is guided by voice and accompanied by music, creating an environment that blurs the line between inner and outer experience. Together we will practice listening, both to ourselves and to one another, as a way of accessing trance states that can open new pathways of awareness, creativity, and connection. The session emphasizes process, experimentation, and the shared construction of a collective, somnambulist space.”

no experience required 
duration: 2.5 hours

Julia E. Dyck is a Canadian artist and hypnotherapist based in Brussels whose multidisciplinary practice merges sound, performance, and expanded states of consciousness to explore the porous boundaries between body, technology, and the (sub)conscious. Rooted in relational and speculative methodologies, her work invites audiences into immersive experiences of collective transformation, using voice, vibration, and storytelling as portals to new modes of perception and presence.

Trained in hypnotherapy, Dyck creates participatory works that engage deeply with sonic imagination—monthly live hypnosis sessions, lecture-meditations, and bespoke sound prescriptions. Julia is a member of Audio Placebo Plaza collective, a feminist experiment in radical sonic care and placebo aesthetics, and the t.r.a.n.c.e community hypnosis project.

Her work has been presented internationally, including at the Karachi Biennale (PK), LOOP (KR), Bétonsalon (FR), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE), Cafe OTO (UK), Q-O2 (BE), Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris (FR), Musée d’art de Joliette (CA), Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève (CH), and Darling Fonderie (CA).