Samuel Beckett’s ‘Sleep Till Death’ is his translation of Chamfort’s aphorism ‘Vivre est une maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les seize heures. C’est un palliatif; la mort est le remède’ and encapsulates Beckett’s ambiguous feelings about the tragedy of life (and death). Filmed in the former Pathology Building of University College Dublin’s original city centre campus, the spaces shown echo these interests: decayed and entropic, exposing a palimpsest of the building and its hidden lives.
Project Details
Project:
Sleep Till Death
Collaboration:
With Francis Matthews
Completion:
2014
Screened:
Describing Architecture 2014, Dublin, Ireland;
The Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland, Culture Night, 2015;
The Royal Ulster Academy’s 135th Annual Exhibition 2016-2017
