24/7
Hello everyone. Going through the reading list for next week I was reminded of an exhibition that I visited in Somerset House in London in December which I thought you might find interesting, “24/7: A wake-up call for our non-stop world”. I thought I would just quickly share it with you in case you have the chance to visit it before it closes on next month:
“Many of us feel we’re working more intensively, juggling too many things, blurring our public and private lives, pushing the limits of our natural rhythms of sleep and waking. 24/7 takes visitors on a multi-sensory journey from the cold light of the moon to the fading warmth of sunset through five themed zones and contains over 50 multi-disciplinary works that will provoke and entertain. With every moment seemingly an opportunity to connect and work, unrelenting pressure to produce and consume, sleep itself monitored and commodified, how we cope is one of the most urgent contemporary issues affecting us all.”
It’s super interesting and I would highly recommend it. The exhibition takes a cue from Jonathan Crary’s 2014 book “24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep”. It is on until 23 February 2020.
On a side note, it reminds me of this blog/Instagram account that I’m following “The Nap Ministry” (@thenapministry): “We examine the liberating power of naps. We believe rest is a form of resistance and reparations […] We pose the question: can we find liberation by collectively napping, resting and disrupting grind culture?”
Hope you all have a restful weekend
Charlotte
Contributed by CharlottePetersen on 24/01/2020
Perhaps this could be one if the exhibitions that we visit in London? I will put it on the list.