At the time I created this piece, I was struggling with sleep issues, which inspired the concept of a space between waking and dreaming.
We take things for granted. One such thing is the 8-hour working day, a frame of reference which was fought for, with one slogan that stood out the most: “Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what you will.”
we imitate sleep to dream of dissent is a printed project that brings together ten artists to explore slowness as praxis through an expanded performance art lens.
The performance “Rocks, Resting”, part of Grounding Strategies, consisted of three enormous rocks temporarily placed in the heart of the city center of Groningen (NL), with five people taking rest and caring for each other.
This is a holotropic breathing meditation in the style of The Anastasia Method. The piece is supposed to be felt and experienced laying down and with access to the Anastasia Lexicon.
I have been collecting dreams and making dream-stickers for several years.
This Walk is a Pause is a poetic sound piece in which the narrator invites the listener to walk along with her through both actual and mental landscapes,
eventually arriving in a surrounding where walking offers a form of pausing.
Based on the chapter 2 of the publication As long as there is time to sleep (2016), Artificial stars unfolds on a personal laptop space composed of excerpts from and interventions into the chapter, a video call with the artist’s sister in the opposite time zone, an 8-hour long YouTube video of a fireplace, collected images and digital drawings.
from odds and ends is an installation first presented in 2021. It is composed of a handtufted rug, a series of eleven embroidered and cyanotype-printed pillows, and an audiopiece.
Misguided Meditation explores rest and digital dependency, aligning with the REST Archive and Nocturnalities projects by examining the contradictions of seeking peace in virtual spaces.
Dreaming Together is a short collaborative writing workshop that invites participants to write from, about and towards their dreams.
What happens when beauty falls asleep?
Through multiple screens, men and women recount their most vivid dreams. The series of portraits becomes an exploration of the collective unconscious in a time of crisis, bringing archetypes from the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale to the fore.
Slow & sesta win the race explores the practice of napping and its recent decay, specifically in the context of the south of Portugal, region of Alentejo.
How is sesta perceived now and what are the possible causes of its disappearance?
Angstea is a series of work developed as an attempt to self-cure the maker’s insomnia outside of the access to conventional mental healthcare.
As someone who has had trouble to accept the fact that rest is necessary to stay sane, this project gave me the freedom to experiment with ‘going to bed rituals’
A short piece on the pressures of high-performance sleep, with Kafka, Goncharov, Kharms, and the Beautyrest™ mattress.
Originally published by Cabinet Magazine and The A/D/O Journal
I think that an easterner
never can be ready for the west, always
in a state of not being complete, and
that the best preparation we can do is
to walk, as my fragile body unknowingly
prepared itself for, even in sleep. That
we need a body that can mobilize itself
to far away places, to beyond, always
beyond, even in sleep, as if it is about
to set off at any moment.
Inspired by a debilitating burnout of the artist, The Office Stage explores how to take a break by pretending you are working.
An academic project situated at the current port of Bergen (NO)—a 40-hectare future coastal development area. It explores the need for unprogrammed public spaces in our cities devoted to collective daydreaming. Through five interventions spread across the site it questions our relationship to our contemporary way of living and to our surrounding world.
This piece initiates the separation of each lunar cycle into distinct textiles, using sleep patterns as the architectural basis for each weaving.
The text-based sound piece A shoulder appears describes two bodies finding rest in an entanglement. The work follows the abstract narration on proximity, closeness, disconnection, and distance.
Visitors spend hours looking through the glass at the solitary fish in the tank and dissected animals, time seems to fade and stand still, turning many of its visitors into ambulatory sleepers.
Our Amsterdam based dream casting agency, in collaboration with the REST Archive, offers a unique behind the scenes look into the business of casting models inside the subconscious realm of dreams.
I want to do too many things. The obsessiveness of humanity confronts me: the constant go-go-going leaves me burnt out, just like the earth itself.
The Things We Sleep On is an installation that features a sleeping space made of beds where I had conversations with people, capturing images of these moments in unconventional places like streets and other public spaces.