BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT LAST-MODIFIED:20080117T102931 SEQUENCE:0 CONTACT:events@wellcomecollection.org ORGANIZER:Wellcome Collection DTEND:20080310T180000 UID:2008-08-21T23:44:54-0400_306670669@socialweb1 DESCRIPTION:_The Mysteries of Sleeping and Dreaming Explored _ \n \nSleepin g and Dreaming is the first of a two-part collaboration with the Hygiene Mu seum\, Dresden\, Germany's national museum of health. The exhibition draws together 300 objects across five major themes [detailed below] and a public events programme\, to enable visitors to explore the biomedical and neurol ogical processes that take place in the sleeping body and the social and cu ltural areas of our lives to which sleep and dreams are linked. \n \nThe ex hibition is displayed alongside Wellcome Collection's two other permanent g alleries Medicine Man and Medicine Now. Wellcome Collection combines these galleries together with the world famous Wellcome Library\, a public events forum\, café\, bookshop\, conference centre and members' club to provide visitors with radical insights into the human condition. \n \nSleeping and Dreaming exhibits range from work by artists Ron Mueck and Goya through to a victim of sleep deprivation interrogation talking about his experiences\; a vehicle designed to provide homeless people with a mobile place to sleep \; bizarre alarm clocks (one of which fires a pistol to ensure the sleeper gets up) and a large bed that visitors can lie on and listen to traditional lullabies. \n \nThe exhibition is presented across five major themes: \n \ n_Dead Tired:_ Is a life without sleep conceivable? Dead Tired features Pet er Tripp\, an American DJ who\, in 1959\, broke the world record for stayin g awake by going without sleep for eight days. Tripp\, who was broadcasting during the attempt\, is said to have become increasingly incoherent and to have begun hallucinating towards the end of the experiment. His record was broken by fellow American\, Randy Gardener\, who stayed awake for 11 days in 1964\, and whose experiences are also featured in the exhibition. Dead T ired explores the issues of sleep deprivation and features a victim of Stas i sleep deprivation interrogation talking about his experiences. \n \n_Worl d Without Sleep:_ Artificial lighting has radically changed our sleeping ha bits and work patterns. Daylight and the changing seasons have given way to alarm clocks and stimulants to keep us awake. The exhibition explores spec tacular sleep experiments held in caves and bunkers during the 1930s throug h to sleep in the modern world\, highlighted by the Japanese practice of in emuri\, sleeping in situ regardless of the occasion\, from business meeting s to parliament. An interactive exhibit gives advice on jet lag and how to avoid it\, while Paul Ramirez Jonas' Another Day counts down the time to su nrise in 90 international cities. A collection of bizarre 'Heath Robinson' alarm clocks illustrate the ways in which people have woken through the age s. Examples include a clock that lights a candle\, a clock that fires a pis tol\, and a device that transforms a gentleman's pocket watch into an alarm clock. \n \n_Elusive Sleep:_ Having a bedroom\, a dedicated place for slee ping\, is a relatively new phenomenon\, only becoming standard in the West in the mid 20th Century. But a bedroom does not guarantee sleep\, and how d o those without a regular place to sleep rest and dream? Elusive Sleep feat ures Krzysztof Wodiczko's Homeless Vehicle\, a nomadic sleeping unit for ho meless people which not only provides mobility\, privacy and rest\, but als o functions as a political comment on social neglect. Nocturnal disturbance s are also explored. A series of 1930s public health posters warn about the dangers of fleas and bed bugs alongside magnified examples of these insect s. Insomnia and the increasing use of sleeping pills are also explored. \n \n_Dream Worlds:_ Dreaming challenges our rational model of the world. The laws of space and time are annulled and anything is possible. Sleeping and Dreaming examines how our dreaming and waking states intermingle: artists o ften attribute their creative ideas to nocturnal inspiration. Exhibits incl ude Paul McCartney describing how the tune to the Beatles' Yesterday came t o him in a dream\, while musician\, Giuseppe Tartini and scientist Friedric h August Kekule von Stradonitz\, attribute great discoveries to dreams. Kek ule\, credited as the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure \, said that the structure of carbon bonds in Benzene came to him in a drea m as a snake biting its tale. The understanding of Benzene\, and with it al l aromatic compounds\, provided a huge leap forward for chemistry. Also exa mined in the exhibition is Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. Th is publication\, which is widely considered as Freud's most important contr ibution to psychology\, placed dream-analysis at the heart of a new and rad ical approach to understanding the unconscious. \n \n_Traces of Sleep:_ In mythology and popular culture\, sleep is often associated with other states of unconsciousness and death. The exhibition explores these themes through exhibits ranging from Aristotle's treatise on Sleep and Sleeplessness\, in which he argues that sleep is caused by a cooling process taking place in the heart\, through to Hans Berger's revolutionary electroencephalogram (EE G machine). Berger's machine\, developed in the 1920s\, showed for the firs t time that the brain never ceases to be active\, even while we are asleep. His discovery debunked earlier science and set the scene for a new genre o f sleep studies. Other exhibits include a 1930's machine designed to tune t he nerves to prevent sleepwalking and Ron Mueck's compelling Swaddled Baby. \n \nCollaboration with Hygiene Museum\, Dresden\, Germany \nWellcome Coll ection and the Hygiene Museum have developed a unique partnership with the aim of creating major exhibitions to be shown at both institutions. Drawing upon their own exceptional collections\, these exhibitions will seek to en gage the public on some of the most important issues relating to human heal th and wellbeing. \n \nThe Hygiene Museum developed Sleeping and Dreaming a nd Wellcome Collection\, War and Medicine\, details of which are yet to be announced. Sleeping and Dreaming was exhibited at the Hygiene Museum from 3 0 March - 3 October 2007 before coming to Wellcome Collection. War and Medi cine will be on show from October 2008 - February 2009 at Wellcome Collecti on before moving to Dresden. \n SUMMARY:Sleeping and Dreaming DTSTART:20071129T100000 CREATED:20070806T090618 DTSTAMP:20080821T234454 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR