Bed Jam

Description:

While in residence at Western Front, Ami Xherro invited the public to participate in an open exploration of material from her work-in-progress “Bed Year.”

Of the work, Xherro writes:
“Bed Year” is a multi-surface project about lying down and splaying out. “Bed Year” dwells in the pleasures of suspension, taking up those infoldings in the flesh where I stretches out languorously. Using altered writing states to collapse the encyclopedic form with the diary entry, “Bed Year” demands overtime for the unemployed dreamer.

A mattress on the floor of the Grand Luxe Hall established a central gathering point where attendees were invited to participate in Xherro’s informal, shared reading and performance space. Participants could speak, sing, or read from printed pages of “Bed Year,” which were loosely arranged throughout the room.

Attendees were welcome to come and go as they wished over the course of the evening.