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Tantes nits sense dormir. Capítol 2
So many sleepless nights. Chapter 2
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Sleep is the non-action, it is the opposite of event and change, which is why, a priori, sleep seems unfruitful as a literary or artistic argument. But even so, there are many works, in literature, the visual arts and the performative arts, that have sleep and other related themes as their principal motif. In this second chapter of So Many Sleepless Nights we comment on some of these pieces, and we also have the witness of some artists who in their practice have dealt with these questions.
Episode by Alexandra Laudo
Language: Catalan
With audio excerpts from Otessa Moshfeng's book Mi año de descanso y relajación (Alfaguara, 2019), from the video Chris Burden Documented Projects 71 - 74 (https://vimeo.com/29168858#t=552) and from the video Marta Minujín, from the Museo Reina Sofía MNCARS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe1PJyXNNd0).
With references to The maybe, by Tilda Swinton (MoMA, 2013), Bed piece, by Chris Burden (Charles Eames Venice Beach California Gallery, 1972), Sleep, by Chajana denHarder (Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2012), Fer temps i arribar tard, by Raquel Coll Juncosa, Isabel Domingo Martorell, Laia Gimeno, Natalia Lazaro Prevost, Victor Pérez-Pallarès Setó, Adriana Prexigueiro, Mònica Ruiz Revuelta, Anna Vilamú, Júlia Zapata Llargués and Huaqian Zhang (Sala d’Art Jove and Line 1 of Metro de Barcelona, 2022), and to the works in progress Autoreply and 23/7, by Mario Santamaría.
With fragments of Yo La Tengo's version of the song "In My Little Corner of The World", by Lee Pockriss and Bob Hilliard, originally performed by Anita Bryant.
General coordinatio by Matias Rossi.
This project has been supported by the Barcelona Crea 2021 Grants from Barcelona City Council.
We live under the 24/7 paradigm, where neo-capitalism, globalisation and the culture of hyper-connectivity define a society in which the difference between time for productivity and time for rest is increasingly blurred.
In an incandescent world, where the lighting of cities, roads and motorways, and also the screens of our devices, rival the darkness of night, and where wakefulness and constant operability are rewarded, sleep is a strangeness, an exceptional time in which we are neither workers nor consumers.
So many sleepless nights explores the status of sleep and rest time in a society where productivity and consumption never stop. Is it possible to imagine a future in which humans do not sleep? In a 24/7 world, can sleep be a political action, an act of resistance?
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