Four women sit embroidering on an endless piece of fabric, trying to work out how to rest.
Combining personal testimony, performance and lots and lots of lost needles, Experiments in Rest attempts to break through the noise of our hyper-stimulated hustle culture.
Four performers slowly reveal their innermost thoughts and the threads that bind them, whilst trying to maintain focus on a simple, yet pain-staking task.
An evolving work charting questions of wellbeing, community and the urgency of slowing down, the fabric serves as a living performance document. Everyday, our still, quiet, unproductive work slips, invisible, into its folds.
A protest against productivity and in defence of care and female solidarity, this performance asks: what does it mean to stop? To take time out? To sit still? And why now, more than ever, do we need to talk about rest?
Watch Experiments in Rest trailer on YouTube
Please note that this event takes place in CPT's basement space.
Thank you for allowing artists to take creative risks, the world needs it now more than ever.
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