Collapse is a film work formed from the voices of people who fall asleep in times of stress, anxiety, or danger. In it, we hear these seven voices describing when the sensation started happening, the circumstances in which it happens, and how it feels. These are accompanied by footage shot in thermal imaging, half outdoors and half at a sleep clinic where the artist was being tested for narcolepsy. It is interested in the act of collapse in the face of untenable circumstances as a form of resistance, a physical way of saying ‘No’, though a complicated and involuntary one.
