Insomnia

All night reading event: individual and collective reading and reading by proxy.

Locations
Seoul: HBC event space
Readings on biphasic and polyphasic sleep
“…before the Industrial Revolution, adults typically slept in two distinct phases, bridged by an intervening period of wakefulness of approximately one hour. This time was used to pray and reflect, and to interpret dreams, which were more vivid at that hour than upon waking in the morning. This was also a favourite time for scholars and poets to write uninterrupted, whereas still others visited neighbours, engaged in sexual activity, or committed petty crime.”
Ekirch, A. Roger (2005) At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past. W.W. Norton

London: New Cross
Readings from 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
by Jonathan Crary