Rest Shift Rest

A room for experimental sleep.  Visitors are invited into a clinical room set up for the examination of their own patterns of rest.  After an initial questionaire, each visitor is invited by a host ‘clinician’ to put on a dressing gown and lie on a luminous bed.  Above them they see a mirrored projection of their own bodies.  As they shift and move through different postures of rest, they can feel vibrations from the sound of their own amplified movement and the live mix of this with the dream recall of distant others.  The video flickers between the subject lying on the bed and a host of other bodies whose virtual presences start to encourage a mimetic relation over time.