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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/sleeping-giants-theories-sleep-a
 rt-philosophy-ancient-greece-present-night/
SUMMARY:Tate Liverpool: Liverpool Biennial 2016: Sleeping Giants: Theories 
 of Sleep in Art and Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Present Night
DESCRIPTION:Sleeping Giants: Theories of Sleep in Art and Philosophy from A
 ncient Greece to the Present Night\n\nBOOK HERE\n\n\n\n\nTaking place in c
 onjunction with the Ancient Greece episode at Tate Liverpool\, this panel 
 reflects on sleep\, as an important\, but often overlooked part of culture
 \, and also the object of numerous artworks at all stages of art history.\
 n\nThe panel will present the work of two writers who each propose theorie
 s and philosophies of sleep. Here\, sleep is understood as a space about w
 hich stories are told\, as intimately woven in with fabulation. Equally\, 
 sleep is something that takes us into another relation with the times of A
 ncient Greece\, among others. Rather though than offering a neo-classical 
 version of sleep\, this pair of talks asks whether we can see sleep as a D
 ionysian act\, full of delight and materiality. Against the contemporary n
 eoliberal medicalisation of sleep\, the speakers also stress its character
  of resistance towards the market-driven acceleration of social life under
  late capitalism.\n\nSleeping Beauties and Vigilant Monsters\, on the Poli
 tics and Aesthetics of Sleep\n\nDr. Alexei Penzin will discuss Perrault’
 s Sleeping Beauty fairy tale\, linking its interpretation to the problem o
 f vigilance and sleep in the ancient Greek philosophy\, as well as to medi
 eval and early modern political theology of sovereignty and to early capit
 alist modernity and elaborate an aesthetics of sleep in the contemporary c
 ontext.\n\nThe Elements of Sleep\n\nProf. Matthew Fuller will draw on his 
 book How to Sleep\, in art\, biology and culture\, in order to discuss the
  relations between sleep science and an aesthetics without a subject. In m
 ost accounts and representations of sleep\, the sleeper becomes a null fie
 ld\, a placeholder for a thinking being\, something that will come back to
  its senses in due course. Drawing on the pre-socratic philosopher Empedoc
 les\, an aesthetics of sleep as a bodily\, mediatic and ecological admixtu
 re of forces is counterposed to this imagined emptiness of sleep.\n\n
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