A cooling action in an overheated system

"You May Rest" is a manifestation – a slow and silent collective practice to revalue the importance of rest and address the crises we face. The exhaustion of our planet, our social systems, our economy, and our bodies and minds.

 

What would be at stake if resting together were valued as a part of our public lives, and we could rest whenever we needed to?

Like a friendly parasite, a pop-up space for resting will land in front of Copenhagen’s Town Hall and on the government building square.

 

Come join the resting community. Rest together with others. Rest to slow down consumption and production, to heal your organs, and to make space for deep listening.

Rest in between what is and what wants to become. A silent manifestation amidst traffic sounds, fragments of conversations, the smells of food and summer – a cooling space, giving rest back to rest.

 

Drop in anytime – or for specific resting sessions like:

• The superhero rest

• In rest we trust

• Resting with elephants

• Rest in peace

You will leave with an inspiration booklet for collective resting cultures in daily life.

A co-written collection of inspirational DIY recipes for resting together anytime and anywhere you/we need.

Let’s continue resting, there are so many good things that need to be done. 

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​Concept: Vera Maeder, Jacob Langaa-Sennek
Text and collaborating artists: Daniel Norback, Vera Maeder
Set design: Jacob Langaa-Sennek
Interships: Wiktoria Czeskajska, Francesca Mueller

Production: Sofie Mønster

Co-production: Metropolis - Københavns Internationale Teater

Supported by the Danish Arts Council

 

Background for “The Night Time quest!

hello!earth’s practice, work and quest (2018-2023) 

How can our embodied inhabiting of questions become a transformative resource and the sensing body a form of activist? -and what would big politics look like if it was informed by the sensing body?

These questions (among other) kept us busy the past years, and manifested as cross disciplinary, immersive and participatory art works, premiered between 2018 and 2022. Works that reclaims the night as a magic and transformative space and sleeping and dreaming as spaces of interconnectedness and invisible political presence, collective creation, a sensitive meeting spaces and time for the basic right to rest for all of us.  

The works pose the question: What if organic time is resilience and the act of surrendering -an act of resistance?

With the upcoming production in 2023 “Into the void”-a daytime ritual, the research on sleeping and dreaming of the past years manifests as a condensed daytime intervention, and marks the closure of this circle of works.