No Time To Sleep
A 24 Hour Live Performance, filmed and streamed in Lahore, Pakistan. Starring Sarmad Khoosat, created collaboratively by Olomopolo, Ryan Van Winkle and Deborah Pearson, from a concept by Ryan Van Winkle.
No Time To Sleep used real case studies from Justice Project Pakistan’s archives to portray the last 24 hours of a prisoner on death row in Pakistan. The performance was the top trending hashtag on twitter in Pakistan that day and had over a million views.
No Time To Sleep was performed over 24 hours at the end of October, 2018.
Reviews
"Sarmad Khoosat’s live performance, No Time To Sleep, gives a harrowing and deeply disturbing account of the last 24 hours in a death row prisoner’s life. This will go down in history as his most challenging performance ever."
Credits
No Time To Sleep was performance activism commissioned by Justice Project Pakistan and streamed on national newspaper The Dawn’s website.