Alex Covert
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 The Vertical Bed Polyphasic sleep is the practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour period rather than laying down for 8 straight hours. How do you practice polyphasic sleep patterns while you’re at work? You could sleep under your desk like George Costanza in Seinfeld or you could sleep standing up. To find an alternate way of occupying urban space (and to allow folks to sleep just about anywhere), a Conflux project designed this vertical bed.  The project is designed for the visual performance of an alternate way of occupying urban space, born partly out of fantasies of minimal need and elegant futurism, and partly out of fears of the dehumanization of space. Occupants will absorb the vertical structure of urban architecture into their bodies. The vertical sleeper is in a constant state of readiness, never succumbing to collapse. Homelessness is most often marked by the forbidden act of lying down on the sidewalk, an act that the vertical bed circumvents.
(confluxfestival.org)References: confluxfestival.org, we-make-money-not-art Comment: on Sleep Standing Up |
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