avantglitch

THIS INITIATIVE ARCHIVES THE ARTIST’S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND SUBSEQUENT ESCAPE FROM SLEEP DEMONS THROUGH ART HISTORY. SLEEP PARALYSIS – FROM WHICH SLEEP DEMONS STEM – IS THE STATE OF REMAINING “STUCK” BETWEEN NORMAL WAKING CONSCIOUSNESS (NWC) AND RAPID EYE MOVEMENT (REM) SLEEP. REFERRED TO AS “DEEP SLEEP GLITCHES”, THESE EPISODES ARE MARKED BY A BLURRING OF DREAMS AND REALITY INTO LIVING NIGHTMARES RENDERING THE SLEEPER IMMOBILE. BASED ON THE COPING TECHNIQUE OF “DISPLACEMENT”, AVANTGLITCH IS A CURATION OF WORKS RECORDING THE ARTIST’S ATTEMPT TO REMOVE THEIR PARALYTIC VISIONS FROM REALITY, RELYING ON AN ACADEMIC UNDERSTANDING OF ART HISTORY FOR RELEASE.