There’s a questionnaire of feelings that we repeatedly have to fill out as part of our testing. It’s from 1971 and I don’t relate to a lot of the terms – does anyone ever feel Full Of Pep anymore?

I hit a low point recently. Kicking goals! The Scientists kept me awake after everyone else was asleep, and I’d been woken before the others as well, so I was utterly exhausted and incapable of keeping my eyes open, let alone writing. It is very frustrating when your waking hours are unproductive – if I […]

Have you noticed any associative changes between smell, taste, and memory?  Chris There was an absence of smells, except for of course my art materials. You could smell the food wafting through the door but the food itself was quite bland, although edible. I think as you get more tired, your brain starts playing tricks […]

After a short dip in the Mariana Trench of sleep – my greedy brain went straight for the deep stuff – I was woken several hours before the others and had some time to myself to write in the quiet. That was bliss. I worked some more on the vague story I started on the […]

How have your feelings towards the scientists tasked with waking you/preventing you from sleeping changed? Is fatigue starting to override social niceties? Sean the Bookonaut Hi Sean! My feelings fluctuate pretty wildly. It helps that all of the scientists are lovely people. If they were more authoritarian it would be easier to resent them, but […]

With no direct exposure to the external weather events, can you gauge any of the changes due to minor fluctuations in air pressure? The relationship between sound, pressure and temperature is something the human body can be attuned to in a multi-sensory sense – are you at all aware of vibrations that may exist on […]

They let us sleep at last, gluing electrodes to our heads and plugging us in to the little board beside the bed which sends our brainwaves and eye movements off to be monitored. I have a tape measure wrapped around my skull and a blue line ruled on the top of my head, and then […]

I’m in the blue room. There’s nothing to distinguish it from the others except the colour of the door and the linen, my initials in bold type on an A4 piece of paper tacked to the door. There’s a partition drawn between the waking half of the room – a desk, a table and a […]

Firstly, huge props to you all for taking one for the creative sector in Oz and worldwide. Q: Do you have Net access, Twitter access and similar during the residency? Ben Fox

Do you intend to upload work in your usual medium, or are you taking this as an opportunity to experiment artistically (as well as physically, psychologically, emotionally!)? Vicki