Rebirth Ritual

"Rebirth" is a ritual event that took place at El Rincon Social on Sunday, November 14. A truck bed filled with blessed fluid was utilized for participants to be buried/submerged in and then reborn as part of a ritual of beginning anew.

The rebirthing process...












Photos courtesy of Michael Brims and Emily Sloan.

Napping at St. Rose in Albany, New York

Joan Horgan, sister of Mary Horgan a recipient of a Mobile Nap Delivery, has organized a community nap inspired by Napping Affects Performance at College of St. Rose in Albany, New York. The event took place on Thursday, November 18, 2010.

According to Joan, "It is amusing that when I mention the idea to adults on campus they look at me a little funny but the students jump all over it with excitement saying how much they can’t wait."

Joan will be sending pictures to post!

Spain Holds First-Ever Siesta Contest!

Check out Spain's Siesta Contest! It aspires to reignite the importance of napping. We feel their sleepiness:

Protest at the Nap-Site

Nap-Site Lock-in

Nap-site Editorial in the Houston Chronicle

Also, if you still haven't signed the PETITION FOR A TAX BREAK FOR NAPPERS there's still time. Email: emily@emilysloan.com

NAP event at College of St Rose in Albany, NY

Pics. coming!

Wash Day

Wash is a performance about cleansing, ritual and intimacy. A full day at Gallery 1724 in Houston, Texas was devoted to the washing of hair including anointing with oils. There were twenty participants and numerous observers. It was a nicely paced day of washing and talking. During Wash, conversations included memories of September 11, 2001, memories of having their hair washed by their mothers, and the love and pampering of having their hair washed by someone else. We also discussed comparisons to foot washing and baptism, vulnerability, and the intimacy of touch, particularly to the head.

The performance was documented through photographs and sound.




Above photo courtesy of Dean Liscum and Sophie Simons.



Photos courtesy of: Heather Korb, Dean Liscum, Merilee Minshew, Sophie Simons, and Emily Sloan.

Floor before, with foils...
Floor after, foils with imprint from traffic...

Emily Sloan: Wash, one day only performance

Wash is a one day performance of the washing of hair. Wash will be performed by Emily Sloan and the participating audience. Recent performance work by Sloan includes Napping Affects Performance, an ongoing project including performances inspired by/while napping which launched at Art League Houston this past May 2010. Sloan also organized this summer's "Salon des Refusés", an exhibition of artworks rejected from Lawndale Art Center's "The BIG Show."

Wash will take place on Saturday, September 11, 2010 from 9am to 5pm at Gallery 1724, 1724 Bissonnet St. (between Dunlay and Woodhead), Houston, Texas, 77005.

“It is the ritual situation which makes the hair “powerful”, not the hair which makes the ritual powerful.” --E. R. Leach

This event is free and open to the public.

Napping Affects Performance at Little Woodrow's

Mari Omori and June Woest created a "Napping Affects Performance" sign on the 4200 block of Bellaire Boulevard in Houston, Texas.

Friday, August 27, from 5pm to 8pm, Napping Affects Performance administered naps next door at Little Woodrow's (4235 Bellaire Blvd., Houston, Texas 77025) from 5-8pm. There were many inquiries about the project and the time slots filled with five nappers napping from 15 minutes to an hour.