SLEEPY SCREENS

Sleepy Screens (Pantalles adormides) is an audiovisual project which stems from a fascination with the novel Un homme qui dort (A Man Asleep) by Georges Perec, most of all from the need to rethink and re-signify it in contemporary times.

The ideas of the original text resonate deeply in the present: alienation, excessive consumption, passivity, loneliness and isolation, and disaffection with the political context. Are we not digital sleepwalkers in a sense? Isn’t the virtual world a new form of alienation? Can we do anything to break free from the saturation and noise we are permanently exposed to?

The project will consist of an audiovisual installation in which digital interfaces are the main protagonists: you can go for a stroll on Google Maps, pay virtual visits to museums, scan digital newspapers or automated literary writings, or wander through the Netflix catalogue.

This project, over and above Perec’s book, encourages critical reflection and also a re-signification of images and texts that are popular and at the same time brimming with new possibilities.

The project has been supported by Mario Santamaria.

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