Welcome to My Restless Night
2024
Performance Video Extract
Yui Yamamoto welcomes visitors to immerse themselves in her psychological and physical experience of a restless night. Driven by high pressure, stress, anxiety, and uncertainty about the future, Yamamoto undergoes insomnia as well as its unpleasant effects. In this live performance, the Performer’s heartbeats (live recorded) are amplified in the Crypt space, sometimes distorted throughout the performance. The project on sleep began during the COVID-19 pandemic when Yamamoto’s sleeping patterns deteriorated. Those chaotic insomniac nights transform into the video performance ‘My Strange Wish to be Worm’(2020), delving into the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep known as Hypnagogia. In this live performance “Welcome to My Restless Night” as a new iteration of “My Strange Wish to be Worm” the artist will be affected by physical and sensory interruptions caused by her own heartbeats amplified throughout the space.
Collaboration with panna hyun (Interactive Image) and Natsuko Yonezawa (sound design)
Lavender Hibernation Neon curated by Yueh Ning Lee
Photography by Nefeli Kentoni & Vinx Photography
