Exhibition Freedom of Sleep
La Chaufferie – Fondation Fiminco
From Tuesday until Sunday 2 p.m. from 6 p.m.
Visits are reserved exclusively for professionals from the cultural sector, upon registration.
Artists: Katja Aglert, Amosphère, Méryll Ampe, Félicia Atkinson, Andrés Avila Reyes, Antoine Bertin, Black Power Naps, Danilo Correale, Debris Facility Ldt. Pty., Helena Dietrich & Thomas Proksch, Rosie Isaac & Aodhan Madden, Farah Khelil, Blanche Lafuente, Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, Violaine Lochu, Clare Milledge, Alexander Powers, Geoff Robinson, Johanna Rocard, Alona Rodeh, Zoe Scoglio, Tom Smith & Jon Watts, Masi Tiitta & Anna Torkkel, Philipp Timischl, Evita Vasiljeva, Joon Yoo.
Curator: Anabelle Lacroix
Assistant Curator: Andréanne Béguin
Freedom of Sleep is an interdisciplinary exhibition that explores the desynchronisation between our bodies and society, through a rich program including a listening and performance space, a conference and an editorial platform.
The project aims to explore the night time, and insomnia, as a form of dissent, slow transformation, awakening and action. In a society that blinds us by continuous 24 hours work, this exhibition reflects upon the desynchronisation of the body through our norms and ideas of productivity, efficiency, attention, distraction, vigilance and free time, as well as inertia, and movements of rising and collapsing.
This exhibition aims to flip insomnia around by reinvesting in the night and its activities, and reconsidering the porosity between our bodies, rhythms and societies through art practices that emphasises listening whether visual, sonic or performative.
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PROGRAMME
Visits are reserved exclusively for professionals from the cultural sector, upon registration.
The programme will also be available online.
Friday 30 April
8.45pm – Performance-visit with Alona Rodeh (in english) followed by the White Night of Young Art Critics
Wednesday 5 May
12pm – Lecture-performance by Katja Aglert (in english, online)
Saturday 8 May
3 – 6pm : performances
Universe Memory by Joon Yoo
Unnamed piece by Masi Tiitta et Anna Torkkel
Batailles Nocturnes by Johanna Rocard, avec Mahé Cabé
Closing Week-End
Wednesday 12 May
6.30pm – Live visit of the exhibition on Instagram
8 – 11pm : performances
One night by Méryll Ampe
Be My Ghost by Méryll Ampe, Blanche Lafuente and Violaine Lochu
Critical Techno by Helena Dietrich and Thomas Proksch
Friday 14 May
2 – 5pm : performances and discussions
Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care
With Catitu Tayassu, Alexandre Erre, Fabiana Ex-Souza, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Elena Sorokina
Saturday 15 May
10am – 6pm : Brain Space Laboratory : Station 19 – Online event
The Night. From insomnia to lucid dreaming: a space-time for subversion?
A symposium co-organised in collaboration with Institut d’Art Contemporain (IAC),Villeurbanne
With the support of Liquid Architecture, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Goethe Institute, Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe, Arts Promotion Finland, IASPIS, Photowall and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
