Treating silence as an effect created in a frame of work with manipulation of audience perception helps to overcome the dichotomized opposition of silence and sound. The way audience perception is manipulated helps to create a sphere of silence as in the series of Blackout performances by artist Tres, where all the devices in the building are gradually shut down. The point of departure of the panel comes from treating this category as performative. This perspective become the foundation for reflection on the active role of audience in a work of art and further departure in power relations in sphere framed as silenced
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No. 33 (2016)
Published: 2016-10-28
10.31261/errgo
English
Język Polski