Hypnagogic Club Session – FFT Düsseldorf

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.