Can sleep be a social issue? Yes! Jonathan Crary, a renowned historian of visual culture, argues in his new book “24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep” that “sleep can stand for the durability of the social. … In the depersonalization of slumber, the sleeper inhabits a world in common, a shared enactment of withdrawal from the calamitous nullity and waste of 24/7 praxis.” See the book review here: http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201307&id=42610
Many details of life are social. So when you think about social issues, you don’t have to always look for something big. Start with something small and dig deeper.
Social Practice x Media Art 