Event Info:
Please note:
One ticket gives you access into all screenings + performances @ slowwave: seeing sleep.
The Exhibition is FREE + Open to the Public over the course of the festival.
Space for the sleepover is limited; please email John Cook, EMPAC Box Office Manager to reserve.
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Slow Wave: Seeing Sleep
Sleep is among the most mysterious of human behaviors, both difficult to portray and resistant to narration. Slow Wave presents works that employ both poetic and empirical channels in an attempt to give form to the amorphousness of sleep, and examines the particular techniques through which sleep is understood. Over three days, visitors will have a chance to view exhibitons by Jennifer Hall, Allan Hobson, Pierre Huyghe, Rodney Graham, Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns, Ana Rewakowicz, and Andy Warhol; attend a performance of Alvin Lucier's "Music for Solo Performer" (by special RPI guests), and revisit milestones in sleep science. In this interdisciplinary commingling of art and science, recordings of brain waves function as drawings or poetic transcriptions and works of art double as experiments.
Curator: Emily Berçir Zimmerman
Schedule:
| Dates/Times | Location | Duration |
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| Friday September 25, 2009 | ||
| EXHIBITION | ||
| 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM — Opening for the exhibition Slow Wave: Seeing Sleep List of works in the exhibition | Multiple Venues | |
| Saturday, September 26 2009 | ||
| EXHIBITION | ||
| 12:00 PM - 12:00 AM List of works in the exhibition | Multiple Venues | |
| EVENTS | ||
| 6:00 PM — Lullabies from all around all around you Sit in the concert hall and listen to lullabies from all over the world played simultaneously from many directions. | Concert Hall | 6 hours |
| 6:30 PM — Portraying the Body in Sleep A workshop on reading polysomnograms, the primary means used by sleep labs to depict the changes that take place in the body during sleep. | Mezzanine | 60 min |
| 8:00 + 9:00 PM — Alvin Lucier’s Music for Solo Performer Lucier’s piece uses the brain waves of a seated, still performer to create spatial percussion music of resonances, rattles, and crashes. A rarely produced, radical composition from the 1960s with special guest performers from the Rensselaer community. | Concert Hall | 60 min |
| 10:00 PM — Waking Life (Directed by Richard Linklater, 2001) Taking its title from George Santayana’s statement that, “Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled,” Waking Life follows a young man through a series of philosophical conversations that take place while he is caught in a lucid dream. | Theater | 99 min |
| 10:30 PM — Sleepover under Warhol’s Sleep (1963) Bring a sleeping bag and pillow and sleepover in Studio 2 under a projection of Warhol’s marathon five-and-a-half hour film, Sleep. Prior to the sleepover, a selection of teas for sleeping will be served. **Space is limited; please reserve your ticket in advance and email
John Cook, EMPAC Box Office Manager to reserve a space at the sleepover.** | Studio 2 | 9.5 hours |
| Sunday, September 27 2009 | ||
| EXHIBITION | ||
| 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM List of works in the exhibition | Multiple Venues | |
| PRESENTATIONS | ||
| 9:00 AM — Coffee and tour of the exhibition, followed by brunch and discussion (for participants of the sleepover) | Studio 2 | |
| List of works in the exhibition | ||
Jennifer Hall, Epileptiforms: 5 Rem, 1999 |
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J. Allan Hobson, Hidden Landscapes, The Time-Lapse Sleep Photography of Ted Spagna, 2009 |
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Pierre Huyghe, Sleeptalking 1998 |
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Rodney Graham, Halcion Sleep, 1994 |
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Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns, Sleep Waking, 2008 |
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Ana Rewakowicz, A Modern-day Nomad Who Moves as She Pleases, 2005 |
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Andy Warhol, Sleep, 1963 |
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