Introduction:
'Created by visual artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Silent Sound is part classical concert and part public séance. It draws on the powerful psychological set-up of 19th century Spiritualist public performances and is inspired in part by Victorian entertainers The Davenport Brothers, who were famed for attempting to contact the souls of the dead using their ‘spirit cabinet’. To make this remarkable project the artists joined forces with acclaimed musician Jason Pierce (Spiritualized), who composed a new orchestral score, leading parapsychologist Dr Ciarán O’Keeffe (TV’s Most Haunted) and Infrasound specialist Steve Parsons. Silent Sound is an unmissable event creating an atmosphere of suggestion and uncertainty and has been specially adapted for Middlesbrough Town Hall, a building with its own haunted history.'
AV FESTIVAL
After this short introduction I decided that I want to take part in the concert as one of the silent sounds. Because noone of participants could have been aware of my existence prior to the happening and I wasn't physically present, I was in the 'dead state' although still I had/have the soul that allowed me to communicate.
I wanted to try to transcend the available media.
I set up a small home studio and decided to record the concert and my sound performance (not directly heard to the audience, silent sound). It was more of an attempt to document the sound states and contexts in which my energy was sent into and the emerging interaction. I wanted to observe the changes.
This conceptual training was intended to entertain. It was an attempt to move forwards the limits of conceptual art (postconceptualart). An attempt to give an answer to the question where are the limits of creativity, who is the author/creator. Has creation become only a declaration? Don't we all recreate and recreate again and again? What factors have to be present to allow for a creation? Is it an act of will? Is there the art in inaction?
The remianing artefact is a tape with recorded silent sound in context of the concert. This sound is truly silent for the people who participated in the concert. Although it was beyond the limits of their imagination, now it can be achieved through imagination (imagination transcendents the limits of imagination).
Thanks to Resonance FM, AV Festival, Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, Ciarán O’Keeffe, Steve Parsons.
2 comments:
This is ouststanding! I truly admire the idea.
I would humbly say that it was more about taking the opportunity.
I am aware that my action may have created a way for bypassing the copyright control. I hope that it wasn't pretentious conceptualism. My motivation wasn't to destroy the "old order", I just wanted to create something myself (DIY attitude) and overcome the limits set by rules, without restriction of anybody's freedom. Because I didn't restrain myself only to conceptualisation and actually I did it physically (cassette as the artefact, the outcome of my will) somehow I feel that I gained the rights to the idea (remember that you do not have to consider necessarily me as the initiator of this action) as a co-creator. In this sense I took opportunity that emereged and I liberated myself from the copyright control.
What supprises me and what somehow I find in connection with my action is the fact of loss of transmission from the festival. Belive it or not but I knew that something like that would happen, I wasn't just sure in what form exactly would it be perceptible.
The loss of transmission ("the physical transmission") was a confirmation of receipt of the message I had been sending and I translated it into some sort of feedback for me from the participants of the AV Festival.
I think that what I've done is in a close relation to John Cage or William S. Burroughs ideas and works.
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