Doing Nothing TOgether Branches Out!!
Doing Nothing Together w/Carlos in Aarhus, DK, 2021. Photo by Catalina Alvarez.
Please see www.doingnothingtogether.com for this project going forward. HUGE THANKS to all of you who participated in this project between 2019-2022!
I see doing nothing as a crucial piece of altering the health of the culture I was born into, so I launched Doing Nothing Together in 2020 (or really in 2019…) to help me do more of it. I knew that if I didn’t make it an art project, I’d never get around to doing nothing.
If you are unfamiliar with the process of doing nothing, here is video of an earlier iteration of this project, featuring Katrina Neumann and I doing nothing together in 2013. Though this early version of the project was documented, these days Doing Nothing Together experiences are not typically documented unless they occur within the context of an art event like a public art festival or community-engaged residency.
Between 2020-2022 I am happy to report having done nothing with more than 50 people on a one-to-one basis, and with over 100 people in small groups. Now, launching in Spring of 2023, I am transforming Doing Nothing Together into a slightly more commercial product/service. Though of course it is still also an art project!
If you enjoyed doing Doing Nothing Together and want to make it a regular part of your life, you can now sign up for regularly scheduled, collective weekly Doing Nothing Together events happening virtually. You can also continue to schedule one-to-one Doing Nothing Together experiences through this new portal, and/or book private community (maybe your organization, affinity group or family needs to do more nothing together?) experiences of Doing Nothing Together.