Desde hace pocos días se ha inaugurado una exposición titulada Silence en el BAM/PFA de California (USA). Dentro del programa estará previsto que Bernie Krause y Jacob Kirkegaard, entre otros, participen en algunas actividades previstas, en las cuales también se proyectarán videos relacionados con el tema. Y bueno, para los que esta exposición nos quede a desmano, siempre podemos hacernos con este libro que acompaña a esta exposición.

What is silence? Can we possibly hear silence, see nothingness, experience anything outside the continuum of time? John Cage famously asserted that there is no such thing as silence or empty space or empty time: “There is always something to see, something to hear.”¹Inspired by Cage’s groundbreaking 1952 musical composition 4’33” and the one-hundredth anniversary of the composer’s birth,Silence considers the absence of sound as both subject and medium in modern and contemporary art and film. Stretching over a century of innovation and experimentation,Silence presents an extraordinary range of artistic practice, including works by Marcel Duchamp, Nam June Paik, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Doris Salcedo. As the works in the galleries and theater attest, silence has been a means for the avant-garde both to reach into new aesthetic territory and to discover fresh ways of giving form to the intangible.