"By the end of 2020, it became increasingly hard to tell what existed beyond my computer screen. Months of caution began to induce feelings of extreme recklessness and futility. In a last ditch effort to get close, I sent a performance called Sleepover via text message to friends. A holiday offering of my live body outside your home. We have only text communication. I spend the night out on your lawn. Each of us thinking of the other’s physicality. Seeking presence."

Birthed in the depths of the pandemic, this intimate performance will have a second run as an NFT based work. 

The owner of the work receives the Sleepover performance in their own backyard. If the NFT transfers, the performance can transfer as well.

* Subject to some limitations on location.

Artist Bio

Lauren Lee McCarthy is an artist examining social relationships in the context of surveillance, automation, and network culture through performance, software, and installation. Her works consist of performances inviting viewers to engage. To remote control her dates. To be followed. To welcome her in as their human smart home. To attend a party hosted by artificial intelligence. In these interactions, there is a reciprocal risk taking and vulnerability, as performer and audience are both challenged to relinquish control, both implicated, as each reformulate their own relationship to the systems that govern our lives. Lauren has received numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies from Creative Capital, United States Artists, Sundance, Eyebeam, LACMA, MASS MoCA, Pioneer Works, Stanford, NYU, and Ars Electronica. Lauren's work has been widely exhibited internationally. Lauren is also the creator of p5.js, an open-source art and education platform that prioritizes access and diversity in learning to code.