S L E E P
Moi Tran
S L E E P by Moi Tran has been postponed until early 2025. We are sincerely sorry for any disappointment caused by this rescheduling, and if you entered the ballot to attend we will be in touch via email with more details.
S L E E P invites transient encounters in the forming of collective experience and thinking within this domain of intimacy.
S L E E P positions the sleeping body to reframe collective gathering in a public space, wherever this body / these bodies appear as inclinations of rest.
This is a recurring piece of participatory real time experience that invites a group exploration of ‘collective sleep’ as a space to contemplate the act of sleep as a conscious reclamation of public space.
Each public enactment of S L E E P is presented within a theme of thought, that tends towards discourse on immediate events or a theme that is part of the artist’s ongoing research.
Moi Tran employs research, theatre, text, sound, installation, video, and performance to examine theorisations on the politics of emotional reckoning and states of feeling, encounters of witnessing in events of fugitive performativity and the politics of sound as critical record. Her interests in alternative modes of communication have produced experiments for imagining and performing counternarratives inside and outside archives of information. She collaborates with sound makers, dancers, actors and community-performers to reimagine conventional performance making.
Tran is currently commissioned by the Wellcome Collection, Performing Borders/Performance Possession Automaton. She has presented and performed her work nationally and internationally. She will contribute to ‘By the Means at Hand’ a project by Vlatka Horvat for the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale – the 60th International Exhibition of Visual Art 2024 – by invitation.
Recent exhibitions/ events include:
‘Well Settled’ (LUX U.K & OutPost VN); ‘SLEEP’(Live Art Development Agency/Royal Court /Pushkin House); ‘Civic Sound Archive’ Solo show PEER (UK); ‘Reshaping the collectible’ Tate Modern (UK); Sign Chorus (Da Nang, Vietnam); ‘Sonic Signalling in Reverse’ (Gothenburg Biennale)’; ‘The Bolero Effect’ (VCCA Vietnam); ‘The Circuit’ (Prague Quadrennial Festival); ‘I love a broad margin to my life’ Solo show (Yeo Workshop, Singapore); Shy God Chapter Mot (Chisenhale)‘Shy God – A Chorus’ (SPILL Festival UK); Landing 1.2.3 (Mark Rothko Centre Latvia)
Art: www.moitran.com
Design for performance: www.moitran.co.uk
- There are wheelchair accessible toilets at Toynbee Studios. Read more about Accessibility at Toynbee Studios
- All toilets at Toynbee Studios are gender neutral
- A relaxed performance kit with yoga mats, blankets, cushions and ear defenders is available
- BSL interpretation is available on request. Email access@artsadmin.co.uk or call 020 7247 5102 to arrange this, and please allow at least a week’s notice
- Please let us know if you have any additional access requirements, but please bear in mind that the sleeping arrangements will be very basic. Sleepers need to be able to be able to safely sleep in such makeshift conditions.
Date and time
6–7 July 2024
6pm–11am
Please note
This is now a past event.
Venue
Toynbee Studios
UK