The sleeping project is a non-disciplinary art work.  It is not to be thought of in a particular category, ie. performance, conceptual, institutional critique.  The project is premise free.  It is open-ended.  By approching the project without the normal categories, the viewer must find their way intellectually.  The emergence of "blurring of boundaries" in art and other intellectual endeavors is a key idea in my work.  The usefulness of this practice is extended in my work, from the sleeping project to the work on thinking and conceptual space. The use of names, categories and terms, all work to direct thinking.  I am interested in changing thinking by re-structuring the categories and other organizational apparatuses.  This is a major component of my project, conceptual space, where intellectual disciplines, such as art, science and religion are dismantled. Marcel Duchamp affixed a bicycle wheel to a stool in his studio in Paris.  It was only several years later in New York that he arrived at the term "readymade".  This is an important point in the examination of how thinking proceeds.  That initial period of "unnaming" permitted the emergence of a new idea.
				There is a danger of oversimplifying, of pigeonholing, of reducing, of defining artificial boundaries, when facing a movement of thought that constantly evolves so as deliberately to defeat and baffle all preordained categories.
							meta idea faux idea soft idea
		Dean MacGregor  sleeping project