Aleksandra Kaminska, Alanna Thain & Dayna McLeod
Summary
This paper examines sleep as a dynamic intersection between individual experience and broader societal forces, such as stress, inequality, and environmental factors, positioning sleep as both a personal and socio-political issue.
It critiques the commodification of sleep through technology and medicalization, calling for a more nuanced understanding that integrates subjective, lived experiences.
The authors advocate for the use of art and creative interventions to explore and represent sleep, transforming it into a site for social engagement, communal reflection, and innovative inquiry within research-creation, fostering new ways to understand and experience sleep through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Artist unknown, Graffiti in the St. Henri Neighbourhood of Montreal, graffiti, Montreal, April 2023. Photo ©Alanna Thain
Published on October 10, 2024
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