How To Do Nothing
The reading room at St+art India Mumbai Urban Art Festival that invited people to slow down (twice).
In her seminal book How To Do Nothing, Asian-American author Jenny Odell puts forth the idea of nothing not as nothing but as a resource: a rejection of urgency and capitalistic production, and a lack of participation in the attention economy that allows time, space and energy for more meaningful engagements.
At Mumbai Urban Art Festival, How to Do Nothing was a series of public artistic interventions that invited people to slow down — to engage meaningfully with themselves, to partake in acts of leisure, and to commune with one another, via a reading room, stitching circle, community collage and mindful art walk. The interventions activated the beautiful installation created by artist Ad Minoliti and Aravani Art Project.
The How to Do Nothing reading room invited visitors to step in, rest, and read books amongst friends and strangers.
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