03/08/2026
The Whole Earth is Our Hospital —
this is the waiting room
OPENING SUNDAY MARCH 8,12 noon (sharp !) to 2PM
a lecture performance involving flat whites ( and yes you can drink them and
Cassie Thorton of The Feminist Economics Department (The FED), with friends, has created a participatory installation about waiting, care, and collective behavioral change during a time of planetary instability and transformation. She knows a lot about The Flat White Dimension (where we drink coffee and talk about the apocalypse while pretending to enjoy normativity and dying of its anxiety) and also about the demons coming out of the ground. It is time to change, even if we don’t know how. It is time to collectivize, organize, and stabilize in new ways. Come to the waiting room. It's an art installation in Oakland, but it is also real. It is a place to wait collectively, because losing our minds is part of the collapse. It is a place you can go when you know you need to change but don't know how.
You can also visit The Workshop of Care and Repair, three doors down in the Annex of DFC, a listening and making site for collective and singular bodies and souls, offering brief sessions that begin with the premise that our needs are more common than we think. Since when care under capitalism = neglect, many parts need attention.Ann Schnake is an artist, and nurse and the maker and holder of this room; for many years, she worked in a county clinic and offered conventional medical treatment. Now she works with more ethereal tools, making new body parts, talking with people and enacting care, repair, attention and intention. How does listening to our most tender innards prepare us for the world? Come to the workshop for small rituals and making and repairing parts. Both works will continue together through April 8 on Fridays and Saturdays. Visit www.dreamfarmcommons orwaitoftheplanets.com for more information or to make an appointment at the Waiting Room.
