As part of teh festival ‘A Matter of (In)digestions‘, Alexandro Laudo took over our Instagram account to present her Treaty on Coffee and Sleep. Instagram 24/7. For seven days, every day around 7 am, she shared visual materials of her ongoing research in which she examines the way late capitalism and wireless technologies have blurred the line between productivity and leisure time. In this context, sleep ceases to be perceived as a natural and vital function and is regulated in favor of productivity and time optimization. In this research, Laudo specifically focuses on coffee, whose consumption unravels a colonial genealogy marked by its multiple reverberations within the so-called contemporary global economy.

Alexandra Laudo is an independent curator based in Barcelona. She recently curated the exhibition series The possibility of an island at Espai 13, Fundació Miró, A certain darkness at CaixaForum, and co-curated the program Compositions for the Barcelona Gallery Weekend. In 2015-2016 she was one of the participants in the curatorial research program CuratorLab (Stockholm), where she developed An intellectual history of the clock, a performative curatorial project exploring topics such as the measures of time, the history of clocks, the introduction of clock time or time standardization movement. Laudo has received different curatorial awards and research grants, such as the Terrassa Comissariat Award, the BCN Producció Comissariat award, or the grant for Training and Improvement in the elds of art, philosophy and new creativity. She writes regularly about art and contemporary culture for B-guided and for the critical platform A-Desk, and has published many texts in exhibition catalogues and art books. Among other subjects, she is interested in exploring narration and textuality in visual arts, as well as performativity and oral expression as curatorial tools.