I had this dream that I was observing the set up of Senior art students shows. They were way more radical students than the ones I'd seen at Alfred. Some of the students were covering themselves with fire retardant jelly and lighting themselves on fire. One of the students was making a comment that it's important that you don't light yourself on fire while you're alone or else no one will be there to see the expression on your face and that's what the whole purpose was. One of the art students who was on fire didn't realize that he was actually burning (yikes).
My class president from high school was also one of the art students who lived a life of extreme minimalism. I visited him in his dorm room which was surprisingly spacious but had these huge decorative tapestry-like thick curtains that covered two walls in the room. The only other thing in the room was a mat on the floor where he slept and a small box that held the only other clothes that he wore which were specifically for winter. Otherwise he only wore a pair of ratty shorts.
There was this other part of the dream that had to do with a lizard-man/art student whose project was a type of life-phonograph. It looked like a giant red and white record player with a giant record on the top and the bottom of the devise with lots of space in between. The record had red and white grooves in it. It gets complicated but the devise would capture a moment in time when someone stepped into the phonograph and play it over and over. It wasn't a holograph but actually repeated this moment in someone's life continually.
All of the students stayed up all night to complete their projects. It was one of those kinds of dreams that you have right before you wake up so it's all weird and vivid.