The Daniels Faculty?s New Circadia installation is a soft utopia transforming the new 7,500 square-foot Architecture and Design Gallery into a cave-like space.
Photo by Harry Choi
Designed as an antidote to our technology-infused lives, New Circadia aims to demonstrate that idling?whether by sleeping, dreaming, napping, or meditating?is not lost, unproductive time, but rather an essential state of mind and body.
Gallery visitors are invited to use ?soft gear? (body-sized, wearable pillows) and engage in self-directed repose and relaxation in an effort to disconnect from standard time and external stimuli.
In affiliation with the New Circadia installation, the Architecture and Design Gallery will be hosting a series of free and experimental public programs until April 30, 2020. Photo by Harry Choi
These performances, talks and films will be led by a group of multidisciplinary scholars, philosophers, performers and storytellers, and organized around a set of time-based themes: Dream Time, Story Time, Wasting Time, Marking Time, and Deep Time.
This month, American sound artist Christine Sun Kim will present a three-channel video ?Spoken on my Behalf?, followed by an artist talk exploring how sound operates in society and what it?s like to live in the world as non-hearing person.
Addressing how sleep can have an instrumental impact on history and world events, Franny Nudelman, author of ?Fighting Sleep: The War for the Mind and the US Military? will lead a conversation about h...