Sleep Laboratory

Throughout the course of cultural history, sleep is a phenomenon that has been mythologized and mystified over and over. To this day, its exact function and the physiological processes underpinning it are not completely understood.

Alexander Schubert, a protagonist of multi-media composition projects, dedicates himself to the topic on an artistic level in a complex arrangement. The Sleep Laboratory is comfortably appointed and features lots of advanced audio, video and computer technology.

The performative installation places visitors within a virtual reality, including out-of-body experiences and autoscopy, in which participants swap perspectives and become objects of their own perception. Toying with our senses, the reliability of our consciousness and the poetry of dreaming, the event is musically led and accompanied by United Instruments of Lucilin, the most well-known new music ensemble in Luxembourg.

United Instruments of Lucilin
Winnie Cheng, violin
Danielle Hennicot, viola
Ingrid Schoenlaub, cello
Sophie Deshayes, flute
Pascal Meyer, piano
Guy Frisch, percussions

We Are Visual, Stage design
Felix Jung, Marc Einsiedel
Multimedia Kontor Hamburg, VR/360 Video
Leonhard Onken-Menke, Sebastian Olariu
Felina Levits Costume
Jonathan Harth Scientific Adviser
Tobias Johannes Pfeil Co-Development and Artistic Collaboration

World premiere at Achtbrücken Festival Köln (2022)

Coproduction ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln / LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA / Philharmonie Luxembourg (festival rainy days) / United Instruments of Lucilin
Commissioned with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

Photos: © Eric Devillet