SuRan Song & William M. Weis III: You’re Soaking in It!

You’re Soaking in It! is an interactive sculpture and dreamwork project that explores the ethics and poetics of sleeping and dreaming in public. Presented by SuRan Song and William M. Weis III in the Glyndor Terrace Garden, this project exemplifies the community-based nature of the artists’ almost-thirty-year collaborative practice. You’re Soaking in It! invites listeners to reflect on identity, memory, and the personal politics of love, consumption and trust while resting on a hybrid sculpture that can exist as both a bed and a performance platform. Song and Weis provoke visitors to actively reflect on a question posed by Bronx-born Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor regarding the prohibition of sleeping in public: how and why do we punish those who need to do so, namely unhoused individuals. You’re Soaking in It! does not pretend to resolve the tension at the heart of this argument. Instead, it offers a bed, a stage, and an invitation—to rest, to gather, and to imagine new forms of public kinship through dreaming. Equal parts art piece, social experiment, and performance, visitors are encouraged to record dreams and garden musings by scanning a QR code; these contributions become source material for the artists’ evolving songwriting and performance research. 

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Organized by Curator of Visual Arts Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger, the Sunroom Project Space is an open call opportunity for New York-area artists to develop and exhibit a site-specific project as a solo exhibition. The 2025 applications were reviewed by a panel of arts professionals including Jordany Genao, a Dominican interdisciplinary artist and educator; Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, an artist whose practice unfolds performatively through creative experiences within the quotidian, and the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism at the intersection of creativity and healing; and Gugelberger.