structural

• Who has the right to REST?
• Who has the right to burnout?
• What needs to change structurally to allow for more REST?
• What needs to change structurally, for precarious art workers to have time and resources for the REST they need?
• How can people in non-precarious conditions support and demand such structural change?
• How can the arts develop alternative models and views for REST?
• Imagine a society in which multitasking is regarded as unacceptable!
• How to implement periods of contemplation and hang out in professional life?
• How to love monotasking unconditionally?
• Is there anything else to do for a better social culture of REST, then to just practice resting?

working

• How do you define REST at work?
• How do you defend REST at work?
• Are you using REST as a productive time?
• Do you respect REST claimed by your colleagues?
• Does respect for these claims know a limit?
• Do you feel your REST is respected by your colleagues?
• Are you at ease claiming REST?
• Are you at ease allowing others to REST while you are working?
• How can work be shared instead of you doing the work for many?
• Whose job do you take when you do two jobs at once?

valuing

• What value does REST have for you?
• What motivates you more: the outlook for REST or the outlook for a task?
• How much REST do you need to be at your best?
• How much REST do you need to feel good with yourself?
• Do you see REST as something productive?
• Do you think there are any social or personal duties to stop resting?
• What is your ideal reason to stop resting?

living

• What qualifies as REST?
• What kind of REST do you need in order to feel well?
• What makes REST enjoyable?
• Do you need a different environment to REST?
• Do you have a ritual of REST?
• When is REST unwanted or counterproductive?
• Is REST more a part of your work or your private life?

legal

• What if funding applications would require time to REST as a criteria for success?
• What if institutions would need to REST and suspend their offers after a structural funding period, to re-think their institution?
• Could this demand be applied to artists as well?
• How could contracts provide a truthful legal basis for work and the time it needs?