Orange lounge chairs in quasi-legal parking lot in Tiverton, RI (USA). Not pictured: balled up disposable diaper just outside of frame.

There are so many reasons why I want to do nothing with you right now. One is that I’ve wanted to do it for years, but no one could understand why it was important back then, so I stopped writing proposals about it. Another is that I didn’t have the right chairs to just do it on my own in a way that would be comfortable for people, without institutional support. But now, thanks to a collaborative project from a few years back, Sweat it Out, I just realized I have access to the perfect chairs.*

The main reason though is that I see doing nothing as a crucial piece of altering the health of the culture I was born into, and if I don’t launch this project to help me do more of it, I know I’ll never get around to doing nothing.

So I am inviting you to make an appointment with me to do nothing together, beginning in July of 2021. In July and September 2021, I am scheduling appointments to do nothing in the Greater Boston (MA, USA). In August 2021, I am scheduling appointments to do nothing in Aarhus (DK). In September and October, if weather permits, I will schedule appointments in Boston and Provincetown MA; Kingston NY; and Nees By DK.

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.

If you would like to make an appointment to do nothing with me, please complete the form below. I will respond to your inquiry within a week.

*Note that the perfect chairs are not available in Aarhus/DK, so alternative, less perfect chairs will be used instead.