Insomnia: Sleeplessness as a Cultural Symptom
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Keyword: hyperactivity, accessability, communication
Artists: Carsten Höller, Katarina Löfström, Julia Feyrer & Tamara Henderson, Kate Cooper, Leif Elggren and Rafaël Rozendaal among others Size: 160 x 240 mm Pages: 160 Format: softcover Language: English Illustration: in colour & b/w Editor: Sara Arrhenius, Sofia Curman, Camilla Larsson Introduction: Sara Arrhenius (curator of Insomnia) Text: Jonathan Crary, Siri Hustvedt, Martin Herbert, Camilla Larsson among others Book Design: Bedow Printing: Finborg Graphic Publisher: Bonniers Konsthall, Art and Theory Pub Year: 2016 Weight: 414 gr ISBN: 9789188031167Exhibition: Bonniers konsthall, Stockholm 2016-17
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Article no.: 9789188031167
”Insomnia” draws a map of the mental and cultural state that this constant accessibility creates.
Shifts in sleeping habits go together with major changes in our ways of living. Today we are witnessing a corresponding shift, in which the possibility of direct communication at any geographical distance shatters the 24-hour rhythm of the time zones. We have the possibility of doing everything regardless of what time of the day it is. Insomnia aims to draw a map of the sleepless state that this accessibility creates.
”Insomnia” brings together a group of contemporary artists – Carsten Höller, Katarina Löfström, Julia Feyrer & Tamara Henderson, Kate Cooper, Leif Elggren and Rafaël Rozendaal – and a selection of historical works.
The book has texts by Siri Hustvedt, Sara Arrhenius, Camilla Larsson, Rafael Fazendaal, Jonathan Crary, Martin Herbert, Filipa Ramos, Roger Ekirch, Leif Elggren, Raqs media collective, Rosi Braidotti, Ellen Blumenstein, Marti Manen, Karen Russell.