FREE EVENT
Tickets for ticketed events are available
from 18.30 in the Wellcome Library, level 2.
PERFORMANCE
Relaxation/
Cacophony Tape
Forum, level 1
DISCUSSION
Fantasy and Fiction
Auditorium, level -1
A night to explore rest... and its opposites
What does ‘rest’ mean to you? Hubbub has taken over
the building to investigate rest and its opposites: from
daydreaming and doodling to fidgeting and lullabies.
Catch a talk on the latest discoveries about what your
brain’s up to when you’re doing nothing, or experience a
live stream of sound from around Heathrow airport.
DISCUSSION
Mapping Rest
Auditorium, level -1
From a documentary about an ape retirement home to
a workshop where you can try out historical relaxation
techniques, this is a chance to explore the meanings of
noise, tumult, activity and relaxation.
DISSCUSSION
Free Time and
Mindwandering
Auditorium, level -1
Hubbub are an international collective of social scientists,
artists, humanities researchers, scientists, broadcasters,
public engagement professionals and mental health experts.
They are the first residents of The Hub at Wellcome Collection.
Our next Friday Late Spectacular is on
Friday 5 February, 19.00–23.00
Please arrive at ticketed activities 10 minutes early.
Latecomers and individuals seeking re-entry will not
be admitted.
Friday 4 September
19.00–23.00
#HubbubSpectacular
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Hubbub
Friday Late Spectacular
Design based on blind drawings by Hubbub collaborator Tamarin Norwood.
Credits
*Tickets for ticketed events
are available from 18.30 in
the Wellcome Library, level 2.
LEVEL
LEVEL
0
-1
Williams Lounge
FILM
Sanctuary
19.00–23.00 | DROP IN
(17 mins)
What do apes do when
they’ve retired from lives as
lab animals, circus performers
and pets? How does their
new state of rest relate to the
myths and realities of the rural
Welsh town they have retired
to? A new documentary
by Philipp Haueis, Noah
Hutton and Natacha Mendes
explores these questions.
Auditorium
DISCUSSIONS
19.30, 20.30, 21.30
TICKETED*
Learn more about our
complex relationship with rest
in these short talks.
Fantasy and Fiction
19.30 (35 mins)
Explore how states of idle
thought or dreamy absentmindedness have been
accessed at different points
in history with social scientist
Felicity Callard, and listen
to a new work of fiction by
poet James Wilkes, based
on his research in the
Wellcome archives.
Event curated by James
Wilkes and produced by
Kimberley Staines. With
thanks to Natalie Coe and
Wellcome Collection staff.
Atrium
Free Time and
Mindwandering
20.30 (35 mins)
Find out what impact getting
lost in books and music can
have on your mind with novelist
and psychologist Charles
Fernyhough, before joining writer
and BBC broadcaster Claudia
Hammond to ask if we are
busier than ever and why finding
out isn’t as easy as it sounds.
Mapping Rest
21.30 (35 mins)
The resting brain has recently
become a prominent focus
of scientific research. Join
neuroscientist Daniel Margulies
to discover what studying rest
can tell us about the brain’s
connections, before hearing
how new technology developed
by Josh Berson and LUSTlab
can help people to map their
own patterns of activity and
alertness across the city.
FILM
LEVEL
1
Medicine Now
DISCUSSION
LEVEL
Outside Medicine Man
PERFORMANCE
2
Library lobby
INSTALLATION
Viewing Room
INSTALLATION
ACTIVITY
Cartographies of Rest
What’s Wrong With Work?
Enforced Rest
Heathrow Live Sound
DIY Lullabies
Putting Rest to the Test
19.00–23.00 | DROP IN
19.00–23.00 | DROP IN
20.00, 21.30 | DROP IN (10 mins)
19.30–23.00 | DROP IN
Discover how Hubbub
collaborators Josh Berson and
LUSTlab are using self-tracking
technology to make a new
platform for collective introspection
and measuring alertness, mood
and how participants feel about
their environment.
Fed up with work? Don’t want
to work? Record your thoughts
or write a postcard to your
boss, your workmates or the
Chancellor. Or just start a debate
with the person next to you, in
this activity led by Lynne Friedli.
A sound poetry collaboration by
SJ Fowler and Dylan Nyoukis
responding to materials from
the Wellcome Library.
Listen to a live stream of sounds
from around Heathrow and
find out about Christian Nold’s
collaborative project to gather
data on the effects of the
airport. You’ll hear birdsong,
river boats and rustling leaves as
well as the ever-present aircraft.
19.00–23.00 | DROP IN
19.00–23.00 | DROP IN
Refresh & relax
19.00–23.00
Rest at the café for a break from
activities or head up to our pop up
bar in Medicine Now on level 1.
Forum
PERFORMANCE
Relaxation/Cacophony Tape
19.30, 20.15, 21.30, 22.15
(20 mins) TICKETED*
Close your eyes, breathe,
and relax… if you can. Join
radio collective In The Dark for
the premiere of their original
audio production.
Studio
INSTALLATION
Earpiece
19.00–23.00 | FIRST COME,
FIRST SERVED (10 mins)
Block, unblock, cover, swipe
and scratch your ears as you
become instrument, performer
and audience in this new work
by Antonia Barnett-McIntosh
and Tamarin Norwood.
Breath
20.30, 22.00 | DROP IN (10 mins)
A work for alto flute exploring
rests and breathlessness by
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh and
Ilze Ikse.
Shut Down…
21.00, 22.30 | DROP IN (10 mins)
Wind down for the weekend
with artist Patrick Coyle’s
live-streamed performance
that reflects on contemporary
communications and the
challenge of switching off.
Medicine Man
PERFORMANCE
Ambient Music
19.00–23.00 | DROP IN
Join Charles Fernyhough and
ambient musicians Darkroom
to experience the restful
qualities of improvised
electroacoustic music.
An interactive sound
installation playing DIY lullabies
created by artists, researchers,
mothers and workers led by
poet Holly Pester. Add your
own memories of lullabies to
the installation or improvise
some new ones.
WORKSHOP
Reading Room
ACTIVITY
Brain Tingles
19.00–23.00 | DROP IN
How do whispering, tapping
and haircutting make you feel?
Relaxed? Tingly? If so, you may
experience something known
as ASMR. Come and find
out more by watching some
tingle-inducing videos with
psychologists Giulia Poerio,
Emma Blakey and Tom Hostler.
Come Daydream!
19.00–22.30 | DROP IN
What do you daydream
about? Does your mind tend
to wander? Gather around
Freud’s couch to try out
some of the ways in which
daydreams, reveries, free
association and fantasies have
been elicited.
Fidgeting for Beginners
19.00, 20.00, 21.00,
22.00 | FIRST COME, FIRST
SEATED (15 mins)
Nervous? Bored? Excessively
relaxed? Join artist Tamarin
Norwood for a hands-on
lesson in focus and distraction
as she reinterprets the science
of mindwandering through
fidgeting, doodling and
colouring in.
Relaxation Then and Now
19.30, 20.30, 21.30,
22.30 | FIRST COME, FIRST
SEATED (15 mins)
Try out some vintage relaxation
techniques with historian
Ayesha Nathoo and discover
how people have managed
pain and stress while finding
health and wellbeing since the
early 20th century.
What can our brains and
bodies tell us about rest?
How are our subjective
experiences captured by
physiological measures?
Join scientists from the Max
Planck Institute for Human
Cognitive and Brain Sciences
to try out some of the ways
the scientific community
measures rest and its
opposites.