An interdisciplinary research-creation experiment in the epistemologies and equities of sleep. Leads: Aleks Kaminska (U de Montréal) and Alanna Thain (McGill).
Find us on Twitter and Instagram @soc_of_sleep We are a team made up of film and media scholars, artists, and researchers in psychiatry, psychology, and medicine. Our expertise includes the affective and quantified body, cinema and media studies, performance and feminist methodologies, the history and critique of technology, the science of dream engineering, and the treatment of disordered sleep.
06/26/2024
It’s one year since Exhibition: InSomnolence went up, and we are marking this occasion with this beautifully attuned review essay by Toni Pape in the new, open access edition of Necsus:
Insomnolence: The Sociability of Sleep at Agora Hydro-Québec - NECSUS How might exploring a sleeper subjectivity – the quotidian ways we navigate time, space, ourselves, and others – help us reimagine and reanimate the
03/04/2024
Congrats to Shu Lea Cheang on her Guggenheim Award!
Net art pioneer Shu Lea Cheang wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim award The Taiwan-born interdisciplinary artist’s work spans coding languages, hacking tactics, gaming engines and more
11/09/2023
Friends we are thrilled to present the latest issue of Intermédialités on "Dormir/ Sleeping", edited by Aleksandra Kaminska, Dayna McLeod and Alanna Thain, and with essays, AV essays, research-creation and artistic responses. We're so proud of the brilliant contributors, and you can read everything online at the link below.
http://intermedialites.com/en/new-publication-no-41-sleeping-dormir/
Introduction. The Sleeper’s Unrest.
Aleksandra Kaminska (Université de Montréal)
Dayna McLeod (McGill University)
Alanna Thain (McGill University)
Articles
L’œil et l’oreille du sommeil. Lire les vidéo-polysomnographies avec des infirmières de nuit
Amélie Barbier (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
The New Horizontal Worker: Privacy, Sexuality, and Professionalism in the Digital Bedroom
Cressida J. Heyes (University of Alberta) and Hannah Haugen (University of Victoria)
Everyone Enjoys a Siesta After Lunch in the West Indies”: Fictions of Labour and Languor
Nicole Dufoe (University of Toronto)
Who can afford to dream?
Saelyx Finna and Mia Imani (independent scholars)
Practices and Environments of Collective Sleep in Twenty-First-Century Latin American Film
Zaira Zarza (Université de Montréal)
Des dormeurs confiés à nos regards. Figurer et éprouver la sociabilité paradoxale du sommeil
Camille Bui (Institut ACTE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
The Scent of Sleep: On Night Knowledge and Its Atmospheres
Sandra Huber (Concordia University)
Listening with insomnia
Anabelle Lacroix (University of New South Wales)
Bedtime Stories: Audiobooks, Podcasts, and Reading as Listening (and Sleeping)
Josh Dittrich (University of Toronto, Mississauga)
Do Humans Dream of Electric Ads?
Doron Darnov (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Research-creation
Beware the LOLcats : une recherche-création sur les illustrations populaires du sommeil préindustriel
Albertine Thunier (Université de Montréal)
Video Essay
Watch me sleep: self-surveillance and middle-aging q***r
Dayna McLeod (McGill University)
Guest Artists
Grèves perlées
Eloïse Vo (Hes-So HEAD — Genève / EPFL Alice)
Hors dossier
Sacrifices numériques : la mémoire au-delà des algorithmes
Hernán Ulm (Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentin
dormir. Numéro 41, printemps 2023 – Intermédialités / Intermediality Consultez le sommaire de ce numéro de la r***e Intermédialités / Intermediality sur la plateforme Érudit. Discipline : Arts, Histoire.
Watch Alanna’s full interview with talking about and what findings were produced as part of the Sociability of Sleep project 💤💤
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/video?clipId=2727028
The safest place to be during a tornado is a bathtub… taking refuge until 9pm tonight alongside Ilona Gaynor’s The Labour of Sleep at InSomnolence.
✨Today, July 13 - the final day of the exhibition ✨
Come celebrate with us at our finissage from 17h-21h at UQAM Agora Cœur-des-Sciences. The perfect time to come see the exhibition if you haven’t already!
See you soon 💤💤
07/13/2023
07/13/2023
Tonight is the last day of Exhibition: InSomnolence! We are open from 1-9 today so come get your nap on!