Photo by Keti Gerra, shows that I wrote “The Silence within Silence shuts me up. Can we say through the unsaid?” to declare the performance.
Still from the video documentation
Silence Piece (Non-silence)
Performance/ video/ paper with handwriting
4 day/ 29’22’’/ 29.7*21.7cm
2024
From January 22 to January 25, I remained silent during the residency “Rethinking the Artists’ Economy”(De Kleine Aarde, Boxtel) while improvising and communicating with others nonverbally. During the same period, when I was alone, I kept writing my thoughts on a piece of paper with water and documenting how the words were written and then disappearing. At the end of the residency, I invited those who were involved to give me feedback on the same paper, if they had any thoughts about my performance.
The paper with others’ feedback
Installation view
As the final presentation of this piece, I project the video of my introspection on the paper filled with others’ feedback, to visualize the unity of the inside and the outside, and the paradox between the intuition to communicate and the impossibility of full communication, both with ourselves and others.