Sleeping and Dreaming
29 November 2007 - 09 March 2008

The second major temporary exhibition at Wellcome Collection,
'Sleeping & Dreaming' combined art and medical science to
explore sleep, the mysterious state we all inhabit for a third of
our lives.
The exhibition drew together 300 objects across five major
themes and a public events programme, to enable visitors to explore
the biomedical and neurological processes that take place in the
sleeping body, and the social and cultural areas of our lives to
which sleep and dreams are linked.
'Sleeping & Dreaming' exhibits ranged from work by artists
such as Goya and Rodney Graham to a victim of sleep-deprivation
interrogation talking about his experiences, a vehicle designed to
provide homeless people with a mobile place to sleep and bizarre
alarm clocks (one of which lights a candle to ensure the sleeper
gets up).
Take
our tiredness test.
This was a two-part collaboration with The Museum of Man (Deutsches
Hygiene-Museum, Dresden).