Sam Levigne and Tega Brain

Do you feel sleep-deprived?

Lie down on a daybed and let our dreamscapes lull you to sleep. A lack of sleep and climate change are two consequences of an extractivist capitalist system which doesn’t value regeneration, rest and natural limits. When sleep is seen as another parameter to be optimised under capitalism, vital rest is sacrificed in the name of economic gain. Experiment with your sleep cycle as a potential climate engineering technology, immersing in an exploration of sleep as a radical counter to environmental and social exploitation. Take back your sleep, rest, and resist. This work also includes the Perfect Sleep App that can be installed on your phone. It can be used like an alarm clock, but it adds 1 minute of sleep time to your schedule each day, to help you sleep a little more.

Download the app from the Apple Store to get involved from wherever you are in the world.

When you dream of a potential world beyond our own, what do you imagine?

BIOGRAPHIES

Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator whose work deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation. He is a Creative Capital grantee, recipient of the Pioneer Works Working Artist Fellowship, and the Brown Institute’s Magic Grant. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Synthetic Media and Algorithmic Justice at the Parsons School of Design.

Tega Brain is an Australian artist and environmental engineer born when atmospheric CO₂ was below 350 ppm. Her practice examines ecology, data, automation, and infrastructure through dysfunctional devices and experimental systems. Framing her work as Eccentric Engineering, Brain critiques technological solutionism while exploring ecological and infrastructural alternatives.

CREDITS

Artists: Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne

App Development: Sam Lavigne

Dream Incubation texts: Simone Browne, Johanna Hedva, Holly Jean Buck and Sophie Lewis

Dreamscape sound composition: Luisa Pereira

Dreamscape narration: Mukundwa Katuliiba

Furniture design in collaboration with Jordana Maisie Design Studio

Commissioned by Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg.

Photography credit: Phoebe Powell