Workshop | becoming neighbours
Resting: Convening with Hanita Firoozmand and Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago
Visual: Luis Kürschner
Can what we think of as rest be transformed into practices other than just sleeping? And how can we reverse the act of awakening? With this meditative effort, the Gropius Bau’s Neighbour in Residence hn. lyonga invites us to slow down, to look within and around ourselves, to attend to our bodies, to lay them down and yield to the guidance of a curated sequence of sounds.
The practice of resting has become a form of resistance especially for Black people, to survive in our machine-level pace of our culture and surviving the trauma of the terror of poverty, exhaustion, white supremacy and capitalism (see Tricia Hersey, Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto).
This workshop is part of the programme becoming neighbours conceived by Neighbour in Residence hn. lyonga.
With Hanita Firoozmand and Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago