No More Sleep No More
Danilo Correale, Still from No More Sleep No More, 240min. Full HD + audo, C.sy The Artist
No More Sleep No More is a long-term research and a 240” sensorial visual essay which investigates the political life of sleep, particularly the encroachment of work on rest in late capitalist society. As sleep and wakefulness in postmodernity affirm the framework under which to control the masses of bodies, and labor becomes the dominating force over the moral dangers of time liberated from work. No More Sleep No More explores through different lenses the complex entanglement of sleep, both as an unspoken subject of critical studies as associated with ideas of unproductivity, and as a rising subject as often connected to wider political and social histories around fatigue and the refusal of work.
The four hrs visual essay is presented in a environmental display designed according to the specificity of the exhibition space. A series of conversations with various experts on sleep: doctor David M. Rapoport, anthropologist Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, historian Roger Ekirch, sociologist Simon Williams, labor studies scholar Alan Derickson, geographer Murray Melbin, philosopher Alexei Penzin, feminist Scholar Reena Patel, investigating the condition of wakefulness in postmodernity.
Danilo Correale. still from, No More Sleep No More, 240min. Full HD + audo, C.sy The Artist
