A day in silence

 

Proposal

On December 4,

At dawn,

When birds will sing for the sunrise,

I will go and enter in silence at 8, avenue de Visé in Boisfort.
In a house emptied of its old inhabitants,
In the solitude of a room,
I’ll read
Eloge of silence without a voice.
I'll count the number of words "silence", "silences", "silently" ...

I'll extract them from the book.
Until this one empties itself of his/its silence/s.
Until this/these silence/s take shape differently in space.

It will be the end.

End of a day in silence.

 

This action is part of Pssst- a worldwide performance festival for silence and be silent, conceptualized and curated by Stefan US

 

Description of the action 

8.05 am:

Starting of the book's reading : « Eloge du silence » written by M.de Smedt

Cutting the silence in 2 steps : 

1. right-hand pages from the beginning to the end 

2. left-hand pages from the end to beginning.

Each word « silence » (or related to silene) is cutted, counted in a small notebook, placed on a wood's plate. 

End of action : 06.25pm 

ps: one mistake was done once during the cutting: the word "parler";)

 

Visual traces 

 





















 Photos © Béatrice Didier & Evamaria Schaller

 
Thanks to Alice de Visscher for hosting the project