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This zone is for standstill aficionados only — those that are intimately familiar with the topic and want to explore it at length. In this section, take a deep dive into long-form musings, both academic and creative.

Vagrants: A Law to Eradicate the Plague

Work and Leisure
Vagrants: A Law to Eradicate the Plague

Daniela Rea Gómez

Flânerie

The Possibility of Stillness
Flânerie: Disrupting Debt as a Lifestyle

Sandra Sánchez

Cartoon illustration of a small island with two palm trees floating in a cloudy sky with the a neon banner above that says “Welcome to paradise”

Possibilities of Utopian Storytelling
Island in the Unmapped Sky

Charlotte Krafft

Movement ~ Stillness

Real Magic
The Search for Stillness Amidst Chaos

Triti Zalka

Quiet, surreal, and unique: Lonar Lake in the Indian state of Maharashtra

Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere
“Time has stood still here for millennia”

Chaitanya Marpakwar

Lying Panda

The Lying Flat Movement
Resisting the Rat Race

Manya Koetse

A mermaid performing at Weeki Wachee Springs State Park

When Tourism Comes to a Standstill
Florida’s Forgotten Theme Parks

Savannah Beck

Noble silence: Vipassana courses are also very successful outside of India. Religion plays no role during the ten-day silent mediation. Instead, the focus is on releasing blockages and emotions.

Embracing Stillness
Taming the Monkey Mind With Vipassana Meditation

Nimish Sawant

A woman experiences the artwork “One Minute Sculptures” by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm.

Performing Stasis
Forms of Staying Still

Barbara Gronau

Dancers from the Batsheva Dance Company take part in a full dress rehearsal before their new show “Last Work” in Tel Aviv June 1, 2015.

Stillness in Modern Dance
The Power of that Textured Repose

Philip Szporer

A kitchen countertop with preserved goods on it

Five Recipes for Canning and Preserving
Savor the Flavor

Aphra Adkins and Britta Gädtke

Detail: “The Capture of Miletus” by Andre Castaigne (1898–1899)

Panta Rhei
Stasis in Miletus

Marius Goldhorn

Yeast plait

Five Short Chapters on Standstill
Uschi’s Bagatelles

Dr. Leonhard Emmerling

Acceptance, Reconciliation, and Music at a Standstill

A Small Handful of the World
Acceptance, Reconciliation, and Music at a Standstill

Ryan Dohoney

Yoojin Lee’s “Lie Down: A Prelude (First Iteration),” part of “As Long as There Is Time to Sleep” (2018)

On Stasis in Technological Arts
Stopping Time?

Esther Bourdages

Farmers protest at the Delhi-Haryana Singhu border against the new farm laws in India.

Conscious Pause
Standstill as Protest

Berthold Franke