REST is bed and sound installation that discusses resting as an act of self-care, surrender and rebellion. It empowers those who spend a lot of time in bed to raise their voices and reveal perspectives on resting as a cultural and political technology. Angela invited three ’sick women‘ to lie alongside her in bed to embody and talk about their relationship to rest.
The recordings of the bed conversations explore resting as an act of care, surrender and rebellion. They became the centerpiece of this work that liberates an archive of voices usually silenced by a culture that doesn’t have a happy place for rest no more. These women’s experiences challenge the norms of constant activity considered healthy by a neoliberal society. The personal stories of coping, resisting, celebrating and loving become political formulations as soon as they leave the private sphere and become public. Captured in a sound installation, liberated inside the mattresses, hearable by lying in bed and surrendering to the horizontal. Or right here…
