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Tantes nits sense dormir. Capítol 3
So many sleepless nights. Chapter 3
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In the era of neoliberal capitalism and 24/7 we are often urged not to sleep or to sleep little, either to be able to respond to the multiple demands of productivity that besiege us and shape our lives, or also, sometimes, to try to give meaning to that scarce, residual free time that remains outside of work.
In this third episode of So many sleepless nights we have invited three creators, Roger Bernat, Irena Visa and Pau Masaló, who have recently developed stage proposals that address the subject of sleep and rest, as well as the relationship between tiredness and work, and which claim that sleeping is a possible act of resistance and a way of contesting the demands of the world of work and capital. Irena Visa and Pau Masaló talk about Ciutat dormitori, and Roger Bernat about Dormifestació.
Episode by Alexandra Laudo
Language: Catalan
With quotes from texts by Roger Bernat and Roberto Fratini linked to Dormifestació, and from the script by Pau Masaló and Irena Visa Ciutat dormitori; with audio extracts from the video recording of Ciutat dormitori (Teatre Lliure and Contenidos superfluos).
With fragments of the musical themes While you were sleeping and Ash Wednesday by Elvis Perkins.
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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