Sleepings

I started recording myself sleeping in 2008. Since then, I have recorded myself sleeping many times, in different situations and countries, with other people and alone. This recording is the first one in this “personal sleeping archive”. I made it because my flatmate at the time told me that I talked in my sleep, and I was curious about it. So one night I recorded myself sleeping with an old Zoom H4, which could record only the sounds and skip the silences. This is it: me waking up and moving in bed while sleeping. Restless moments.

Context

A project initiated by the artist yan jun 颜峻 as part of the Manual for a New Neighborhood series, curated by Eric Mattson (Le Bloc Oral).