Category: sleep

  • die müdigkeit

    die müdigkeit

    KAMMERSPIEL
    IM TRANSITRAUM

    ADAPTION OF DIE MÜDIGKEIT, LECTURE PERFORMANCE

    April 16th 2026
    Museum Starnberger See

    Elena Carr’s intimate piece is the lecture performance Im Transitraum (In the Transit Space), an associative sequence of quotations and texts on fatigue, complemented by visual installations. The focus is on the positioning of the room between the bedroom and the kitchen – spaces of care work and spaces of fatigue. In analogue collages of clippings from a variety of media, literary, historical and personal fragments blend into a seemingly endless collection of weary words and stories. The performance follows the protagonist M. on a journey into this collaged world of weary experiences, across the landscape of tired phenomena, lullabies in minor keys and gestures that bring with them dark circles under the eyes.
    Accompanied by
    Mariam Vartanian (tailoress)
    Raphael Weilguni (melodica)
    Rumpeln, Daniel Door (noise)

  • Nachtwächter:innen

    Nachtwächter:innen

    “I am the moth and you are the light”,

     

    A. Sophie Adelt (States of Clay) Sound and Performance Artist, Linz (AT)
    Sophie, like many people, likes to sleep. In her sleep she digests food she has eaten late at night or things that occupy her mind. People know this, people say this.
    “If you dont dream you pretty much die.” said Erykah Badu, but whether dreaming has so much to do with sleeping itself?
    When you climb a high volcano, you first have to go up to the base camp and get up very early the next day, and before that you are not allowed to sleep. Only rest. So that your blood circulation doesn’t go down and you get cold. That was too steep for me and I stayed down. Sleep cures headaches and worries.
    The neighbour once said, “I’ve noticed that you always sleep so late!”

    David Carr, senior biostatistician, Starnberg/Melbourne (AUS).
    D. worked as a research assistant in the sleep bunker in 1977 and later in the chronobiology department of the Max Planck Institute in the team of sleep researcher Jürgen Zulley. Sleep movements on his mattress in the scientific annexe of the bunker premises were also recorded throughout by sensors. D. tells of an experiment in which the wake-sleep rhythm of a test person in the sleep bunker ran over a 42-hour day, of which he spent about 30 hours awake and 12 hours asleep. Empathically, D. can empathise with the subject, who had never felt so good physically before. In New York, people lived this rhythm. D. continues to empathically report how terrible and socially indiscernible it was for these people. They became complete outsiders.

    Petra Anne Bernard
    The hanging of two sheets in the entrance area shows a section of Petra Anne Bernard’s preoccupation with sleep. She slept in both, meticulously noting her sleep in strokes and painting the sleeping body.

  • Wirklichkeitsagenturen unserer Schlafplatzierungen

    Wirklichkeitsagenturen unserer Schlafplatzierungen

    Can you ever really say ‘I’m asleep’?Isn’t this the drowsy versionof the lying paradox?

    Artistic research on sleep later adapted in Die Müdigkeit, Lecture Performance