SLEEPLESS III: Transgressions (performance installation)
This new work by performance designer Sam Trubridge and sleep scientist Philippa Gander is an exploration of the perceived boundaries that separate the artist and the scientist, and the worlds of waking and sleeping. Trubridge submits to the role of a research participant, trying to sleep in an unfamiliar environment while wearing an array of recording equipment. He seeks to perform an unperformable act – falling asleep – with his projected brain activity disclosing whether or not he is simply acting. Gander meanwhile performs music on a medieval symphony. A blindfold disconnects her from the exterior world, freeing her to enter an inner reality as Trubridge struggles to make his parallel transition into sleep. (http://anatomiadaspaixoes.blogspot.com/)
