soxno
performance / video installation
86 hours of total sleep deprivation in a room completely isolated from the outside, controlled by closed circuit cameras. One qualified equipe in sleep disorders (Molinette Hospital, Turin) has recorded the performance with an electroencephalogram. Before, during and after the waking experience, the performer was subjected to cognitive tests. Their interest in this experiment regarded the comparison of standard sleep with the sleeping after a forced waking together with the possibility of monitorizing the waking experience step by step.
soxno is an artistic research about sleeping.
So(n)no sleeping
So(g)no dreaming
X=0
So( )no being
(?)
sono?
People spend more or less 1/3 of their life, sleeping. Sleeping is one of the most stable type of behaviour in human beings. It’s also the most difficoult behaviour to modify and a change in our sleeping habit, can only be temporary. Science began to work on sleeping disorders only after 1950. The sleep deprivation intends to put in crisis the body system, to drop the danger level and the reaction capacity. A naked and lacerated emotion, exibited with shame. A redefinition of the human beeing throughout the observation of his behaviour when facing his phisical limits. Soxno is a context where the video technologies have been thought to catch and amplify the deprivation act. Reaction. Amplification. Soxno is weak. To see the rats. The vision in a dream. Is the R.E.M. sleep which demands his tribute to the one who can’t sleep or doesn’t want to.
Sometimes we dream in order to forget…