all the money in the world (for Catalina) is a sad girl party-piece that critiques the societal standards of today in relation to status, economy, gender roles and the art-world. It is also inspired by Romanian party culture and the song Șaraiman by Romica Puceanu, to whom the piece is dedicated.

Longer periods of hypersomnia change both the experience of time and the very ontology of memory. Time is no longer continuous, but divided into images, states, and narratives. Memories can take the form of vivid snapshots, or exist in a state between sleep and wakefulness, where it becomes difficult to distinguish dream from reality. In this space between states, a memory can feel as real as something actually experienced.

The mind fills the gaps, creating connections and stories. Absent people can take on a new significance; an image can grow into an entire narrative. The question becomes: what happens to memory when time is no longer experienced as a continuous flow, but as a series of interruptions - moments of waking, sleeping, forgetting and returning?

Virginia Woolf writes in On Being Ill about the way illness alters our perception of others and of the world around us: “For illness often takes on the disguise of love, and plays the same odd tricks, investing certain faces with divinity, setting us to wait, hour after hour, with pricked ears for the creaking of a stair, and wreathing the faces of the absent with a new significance, while the mind concocts a thousand legends and romances about them for which it has neither time nor liberty in health.”

Dot (wake, sleep, forget, return) is commissioned by MINU_festival_for_expanded_music.

MINU_festival_for_expanded_music is a Copenhagen-based festival presenting art on the borders of experimental music and other media. It is a space for oscillating between extremes and charting relationships between art, technology, and contemporary culture.

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MINU_festival_for_expanded_music 2026

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all the money in the world.Dot (wake, sleep, forget, return)

Catalina Lazurca, Cornelia Karlsson, Þórhildur Magnúsdóttir, Flemming Valmundsson

MINU_festival_for_expanded_music 2026

25. Nov

20:00

Kildevælds Kulturcenter

Copenhagen

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