SLEEPLESS: A MULTI-LAYERED LIVE INSTALLATION

SLEEPLESS: a multi-layered live installation

The Performance Art Lab of Delos Drama School presents its new performance, titled SLEEPLESS: a multi-layered live installation inspired by the exhibition “The Bed in History and Contemporary Art”, presented at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna in 2015.

The stage is transformed into a fragmented space: 12 rooms, 12 autonomous yet interconnected actions. In each room, a body is exposed, persists, resists, or surrenders. The performances unfold simultaneously, creating a living landscape through which the audience is invited to wander, choose, and compose their own experience.

The work draws inspiration from the idea of the bed not as a place of rest, but as a field of political and existential tension. The bed becomes a site of power, care, surveillance, desire, loneliness, and violence. A place where the body is revealed in its most vulnerable, yet most exposed, state.

In SLEEPLESS, bodies do not sleep — they remain alert.

The performance explores insomnia as a contemporary condition: the body as a vessel of memory and pressure, privacy as a fragile construct, and the relationship between care and control.

Without speech, without linear narrative, the work is composed through images, situations, and durations. The spectator does not watch from a distance — they participate actively, moving between the rooms and composing their own “map of sleeplessness.”

SLEEPLESS is an experience that places the body at the centre:
where rest becomes impossible, and truth emerges.

Duration: 2 hours
Suitable for ages 16 and up. The performances contain scenes of violence and nudity.