Silent Room

Silent music, a performance of nothing, a film without images, Silent Room, the first theme weekend conceived as part of It Never Ends, offers the chance, in a world saturated with sound and images, of experiencing disappearance and the void.

One day in 1981, in St. Gallen, Switzerland, John M Armleder put on a musical programme entitled Mostly Silent Music: from the 4'33 of silence by John Cage to Audience by Ben Vautier, from Dadaist experiments to the meditations of La Monte Young, the artist performed a series of musical pieces in which sound was absent, so that the audience became the actors. Almost thirty years later, KANAL - Centre Pompidou will reconstruct this historic event.

Echoing the exhibition None of the Above, an exhibition conceived by Armleder on the second floor of the Showroom - sensory and conceptual experimentation, in which some 50 artists show works at the frontier of the visible and perceptible, Mostly Silent Music marks the inauguration of an ensemble of artistic offerings whose leitmotif is withdrawal, near nothing, absence.

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