Mindoff Bar
Mindoff Bar is a sleep-and-mind-wandering-themed cocktail bar experiment, designed by M&B doctoral candidates Luca Iemi and Hannah Scheibner. Cocktails with “hypnotic”, energizing, and “mind-wandering” effects with over-the-counter substances such as magnesium, fresh herbs and spices, audio recordings as well as fictional and scientific texts about sleep and mind-wandering will be offered and displayed. Attendees of the Mindoff Bar experiment will wander through space and sound, sipping "hypnotic" cocktails, and contemplating the role of absent-minded mental states in contemporary society.
The 20th-century emergence of global economic and political infrastructures for contin-uous work, consumption and surveillance have led to drastic changes in the way we think about absent-minded states. Sleep is perceived as nothing but an obstacle to advanced capitalist values prioritising productivity, efficiency and security. Likewise, mind-wandering has been criticized as uneconomic and unhealthy.
We propose to share our ideas on the relationship between neuroscience, contempo-rary societal trends and the future of absent-minded states in a sleep-and-mind-wan-dering-themed cocktail bar.
Textbooks will be supplied.
There are two time slots for the experiment: 19.00–20.00 and 20.00–21.00.
Please register:
http://doodle.com/poll/2nnmd7px2scnxtdr
Invitation poster (pdf download)
