Awakening

During the performance, the author activated one by one of the hundreds of clocks with a set alarm for waking up. Alarm sounds are successively amplified with the activation of each alarm. The performance ends with the inclusion (with pre-existing alarm sounds) of audio recordings of the siren, which is commonly used in city services as an exercise, or a warning of impending danger.

‘We are all hostages of social systems that want to keep us in a constant and dangerous state of drowsiness. For the time being, we can only escape the systems of mass control, political and media manipulation in our dreams. Sometimes we truly “awake” only as we sleep. Thus the unconscious, first of all in our dreams, becomes one of the last oases of the inner and the private that can still resist the sistem.’K.M.