Marques, António Figueiredo2022-01-262022-01-2620212076-0752PURE: 36354589PURE UUID: 89ffaf2d-163d-46ca-9a8e-37bcd55cf166ORCID: /0000-0003-4334-2126/work/107026884WOS: 000770823700001http://hdl.handle.net/10362/131577UIDB/05021/2020 UIDP/05021/2020Parasomnia (2019), a site-specific participatory performance by Patrícia Portela (PT/BE), addresses sleep in its biological and cultural meanings while retrieving its historicity. Sleep is one of the last resistance gestures against capitalised lives, opening a gap for social change through the aesthetic dimension as an extension of arts in politics. Parasomnia raises awareness for empathy and unproductiveness by inviting spectators to take a massage and eating delicacies. Bodily senses are therefore a way to activate potentials and becomings. Often understood as weaknesses and vulnerabilities, the actions elicited—contemplating, caring, and resting—bring up a strength and a capacity to arouse the imagination and fabulation as political acts. It is also argued that dimensions such as fantasmatic, cyclicity, and subjectivity are key social outputs of Parasomnia. Allowing for a pause in a continuous stream of goals, of connectivity and consumption, and without commodification purposes, sleep may return us to a sense of our own interiority made of several layers: like a fall into the sleep that enables alterity to emerge inside the self.172558244engPerformanceSleepCapitalismUnproductivenessFantasmatic;Subjectivityjournal article10.3390/arts11010001https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/11/1/1