Artist Drew Burrows’ “In Bed” is an installation piece that on the surface “involves previously recorded footage of a woman sleeping in various positions on a bed, filmed from above.” [WaxyLinks]

At the exhibit, an “infrared camera is mounted next to the projector and reads the position of a real live person who climbs into the bed.” As the video above shows, when the viewer/participant “gets into and moves around the bed, the woman sleeping is manipulated according to the real life person.”

The piece compares the feelings of coming home to an empty bed versus coming home to a bed with someone in it asleep but happy that you are joining them. These two situations are profoundly different and the installation invites a viewer to experience and consider the emotions associated with both.