Tableau vivants, a static scene containing one or more actors or models, are an art form that Antoni has used in her work. In her installation "Slumber" (1994) Antoni slept in the gallery for 28 days and while she slept, an EEG machine recorded her REM patterns. Which she then wove into a blanket from the night gown under which she slept. This particular work was seen as a "tableau vivant" because of its spectacle aspect:The aspirational focus of this "tableau vivant", while situating the artist as an object on view, insists on an aesthetics of connections: between the artist and beholders, between the artists and the art institutions, and between the artist's conscious and unconscious processes.