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Hypnagogic Club Session – FFT Düsseldorf

Design: Montserrat Gardó Castillo ©️ 2025

The Hypnagogic Club Session was presented at FFT Düsseldorf as an immersive, guided experience for an audience, unfolding over a duration of ninety minutes. The session invited participants to enter a shared space of altered attention, situated between performance, collective practice, and rest.

Guided primarily through voice and sound, the experience combined subtle instructions, listening practices, and moments of suspension, allowing participants to actively engage through their own bodily choices. Rather than observing from a distance, the audience became part of a collective process in which attention gradually shifted away from alertness towards drifting, resonance, and shared presence.

The Düsseldorf edition was realised as a headphone-based setup, with live guidance transmitted remotely from a separate room. This configuration created an intimate yet collective listening environment, enabling participants to remain connected while moving through individual experiences of perception and rest.

The session was presented in dialogue with our performance The Fall of Sleep and functioned as a preview format several weeks prior to its premiere at FFT Düsseldorf. This work is part of our ongoing research project Embodied Liminalities, funded by Kunststiftung NRW.

HYPNAGOGIC CLUB SESSION  – FFT DÜSSELDORF

Concept: Montserrat Gardó Castillo, Petr Hastik
Text: Ted Gaier, Montserrat Gardó Castillo, Petr Hastik, excerpts from Jean-Luc Nancy
Performance and sound: Ted Gaier, Montserrat Gardó Castillo, Petr Hastik, Nicolás Kretz
Dramaturgical support: Annette Müller
Space: Knut Klaßen, Jörn Nettingsmeier

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This work is linked to our last piece: 

THE FALL OF SLEEP
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Hypnagogic Club Session – HfBK Dresden

📹Filmed by: Brandon Koziol. Edition: Elmest Poudoulec ©️ 2025

At the beginning of the academic year, we were invited by Knut Klaßen to lead a one-week workshop with students from the Stage Design and Visual Arts departments of the Mix & Match studio at HfBK Dresden. The workshop took place at the Käferklause and brought together students from different artistic backgrounds to explore sleep, hypnagogic states, and altered modes of attention as material and methodology for artistic practice.

The workshop was developed as part of our ongoing research project Embodied Liminalities, funded by Kunststiftung NRW.

Across the week, we worked through shared practices of listening, movement, voice, spatial composition, and collective care. Rather than focusing on production, the workshop proposed a shift towards receptive states, drifting attention, and embodied experimentation. Students developed their own spatial and performative propositions, exploring how atmospheres of rest, fatigue, and post-club resonance can be composed and shared.

The workshop culminated in a public presentation on Friday evening: a collective Hypnagogic Club Session developed and hosted by the students. The audience was invited into an immersive environment shaped by sound, light, objects, and subtle guidance, offering a shared experience between wakefulness and sleep.

 

Supported by:

This research is linked to our last work: 

THE FALL OF SLEEP
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“RUIN LUST” in cooperation with FFT Düsseldorf

In cooperation with FFT Düsseldorf, we will present “RUIN LUST“, an online trilogy on brutalism, hauntology and nostalgia.  

Sun, 14.3.  at 20h:  The Brutal Concert
Sun, 21.3. at 20h: Man-made landscapes and crashes
Sun, 28.3. at 20h: The ghosting images

Each session is linked, but also independent from each other.

The sessions are held through Zoom platform.

Length: aprox. 90 min. without breaks.

Language: English.

 

More info on RUIN LUST

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“Matterialism”, a hauntological video (eastern study)

Short movie shot at the Stadion Širůch, in Staré Město u Uherského Hradiště (Czech Republic), during our eastern research on Brutalism.

It is a study on the relation between body and space, movement and matter. It imagines hauntology moves or a possible disintegration of agency in front of structure.

Idea: Montserrat Gardó Castillo and Petr Hastik
Camera: Petr Hastik
Performance and editing: Montserrat Gardó Castillo

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The prototype sessions coming to your overloaded screens

The prototype sessions are part of a current research on how to create online and participative performance experiences triggering processes of memory and perception.

Within small groups of participants (from 6 to 10), the goal of these sessions is to propose and interact with some material in order to create collective experienced events.

The basic technology used is  Zoom software, but the formats are very open and it is part of the research itself. Most of the propositions require an active participation and examine a series of topics as well as the support (or technique) used for it.

We’ve developed 6 different sessions using specific formats and propositions for each session.

The session’s calls are communicated through a mailing list.

Hit us up to join our next sessions

These sessions are supported by the Sonderfonds der Kunststiftung NRW „BEGRENZT – ENTGRENZT ZEIT FÜR EINE ZEITENWENDE?“ and the Künstlerstipendium im Rahmen der NRW-Corona-Hilfen.