Lay Flat, 2023

Title:
Lay flat

Year:
2023

Dimensions:
1,78m

Material:
100% Virgin Wool
Sound

With her work „Lay Flat“, the artist Hannah Cooke invites you to understand sleep, loafing, and doing nothing as a practice of resistance. Her work is engaged with the Chinese protest movement Tang Ping (lying flat). Here, young Chinese people withdraw themself from the 996-System (working from nine in the morning until nine in the evening six days a week) through idleness. The quiet protest of lying down makes humans useless for the exploitative factories, which form their place of work. Although labour rejection is not a new phenomenon, with half a billion clicks on social media Tang Ping achieved new visibility and is a movement with global resonance.

Text by curators:
Francesca Romana Audretsch & Lotti Brockmann