Walk with M

As part of the ORF Long Night of Museums 2025

In a performative walk, Anne Glassner slowly makes her way from the public space into the exhibition space, accompanied by two companions: her breath and an air mattress. Glassner literally walks between self- and external perception, surrendering with mindful steps to the transitions of her states of consciousness. The imagined dialogue with her mattress is interwoven with the theme of sleep, which, in its permeability, carries political resonances—sleep as an act of refusal to consume, sleep in safety as a privilege, or the absence of sleep in bodies that help, work, endure homelessness, or suffer injury. At this threshold between public and intimate spheres, we thus listen to an imitation of our own breath resounding in space—translated into the sound of the seemingly breathing mattress. It is the echo of a connection between us as breathing beings and a testament to the difficult exercise of consciously letting go of breath and of the control of life itself.

From the text by Andrea Kopranovic