What Lets Lethargy Dream Produces Lethargy’s Surplus Value 2020

My body is connected to a system of interfaces and sensors that translate the brainwave signals collected from my sleep into visuals and sounds. The visuals that are responsive to the brainwave data transition between choreographed body movements, while the same set of bio-data modulates the song L’Internationale as a standard of the international communist movement.

The core of the work is a performance of “doing-nothing”. It is a visual and sonic anthem of fatigue and frustration, a useless polemic to the over-demand of productivity in a reality where acts of “doing-nothing” such as relaxation have been exploited to produce surplus value. The act of “doing nothing” in this work is an act of passive disengagement when lethargy becomes the productivity of useless labouring that is at the same time oversimplified and regulated by bio-cybernetic feedback loops.