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Rodney Graham
Halcion Sleep, video on DVD , 26 minutes, edition of 3, 1994
“…the artist took a double dose of the sleeping pill Halcion, and -recorded in a single 26 minute real time shot on video- is driven through the city at night, lying on the back seat of a car, wearing old-fashioned pajamas, lit dimly by glittering city lights. The instruction-piece-style rule creating the piece - take a double dose of a sleeping pill and let yourself be transported without further ado - is suspended by the artist’s loss of control, his dreamless sleep, as if he was transported by the legendary bird Halcion, who builds his nest on the waves of the sea.”
-Romantic Conceptualism, Kunsthalle Nürnberg 2007
(Source: josephrynkiewicz, via aprilmarylynn)
