Magdalena Reiter: INSOMNIA

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Insomnia subtly discloses our very own assumption that fear normally resides on the Other side. And that, furthermore, it must be kept there at all costs in order to have a goodnight sleep. The problem of sleep as tackled by the performance, which is unable to sleep, touches upon the question of the right side and of the right sleeping/sexual position: between the fluid nature of the (female) body and the symbolic nature of the (male) speech. Fear thus becomes a different word for the binary reality, split upon the wrong sides, amidst which the contemporary individual still sleeps … on the Right side. Day by day, night after night.