A Curatorial Ear 

  1. Freedom of Sleep
  2. Radio Insomnia  
  3. Night at Centre Pompidou  


  
 


Freedom of Sleep


Artists, scientists, historians and musicians explore 'de-synchronisation' between our bodies and society, by listening with—and to— insomnia, to reclaim the night and rethink our rhythms.

21 April - 16 May 2021
Fondation Fiminco, Paris


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1 min video documentating exhibition spaces:









Exhibition website (external link). Above:  program page.



Center: Sonia Leber & David Chesworth, Mission Crimps, 2021, 4k UHD video, 7’17 min. 
Right: Evita Vasiljeva, Seven reasons why you should make time for the sunsets I–IV, 2020, Soap, flies from Latvia, plastic, metal, pigments, paper, wires, lamp, variable dimensions.




Danilo Correale, No More Sleep No More, 2015, HD video, beds, 240 min



Alona Rodeh, The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms, 2021, on-site installation with latex print and a performed tour, interior view of windows.




Alona Rodeh, The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms, 2021, on-site installation with latex print and a performed tour, exterior view.



Alexander Powers, inputs outputs, 2020, HD Video, 17’23 min. Photo: Atong Atem.




Alexander Powers, inputs outputs, 2020, HD Video, 17’23 min, installation view.
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Masi Tiitta and Anna Torkkel, unnamed piece, 2016, 120 min.

Left: Debris Facility Pty Ldt, Schedule, 2021, prints on paper and 12 audio pieces, 10 sec.
Right: Tom Smith & Jon Watts, Waking Life: The Dreamwork Model, 2020, HD Video, 17'38 min.




Tom Smith & Jon Watts, Waking Life: The Dreamwork Model, 2020, HD Video, 17'38 min. Courtesy the artists.
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Méryll Ampe, One Night, 2021, sound installation with two speakers, two subwoofers, mattresses.





Asynchronous screening, artist talks (top) and curator performance-lecture (bottom), presented by Liquid Architecture, Collingwood Art Precinct, Naarm/Melbourne, 03 March 2022. Top image: from left to right: Alexander Powers, Tom Smith , Sonia Leber and & David Chesworth, Zoe Scoglio. Photo: Kenneth Scuio.



 Freedom of Sleep artist list:

Katja Aglert, Amosphère, Méryll Ampe, Félicia Atkinson, Andrés Avila Reyes, Antoine Bertin, Black Power Naps, Maïté Chénière, Danilo Correale, Debris Facility Pty Ldt., Helena Dietrich & Thomas Proksch, Alexandre Erre, Fabiana Ex-Souza, Rosie Isaac & Aodhan Madden, Farah Khelil, Blanche Lafuente, Sonia Leber & David Chesworth, Violaine Lochu, Clare Milledge, Alexander Powers, Geoff Robinson, Johanna Rocard, Alona Rodeh, Zoe Scoglio, Tom Smith & Jon Watts, Catitu Tayassu, Masi Tiitta & Anna Torkkel, Philipp Timischl, Evita Vasiljeva, Joon Yoo.

View the exhibition catalogue including the list of works and program.


With the support of Liquid Architecture, Institut d'Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Goethe Institute, Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Institut finlandais and TelepART Mobility Support Platform, Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland, IASPIS, Photowall and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.


All photographs, otherwise indicated, credit: Martin Argyroglo