Applied Silence Performance

What is it that makes you pause and contemplate?
Qu´ est-ce qui vous fait marquer un temps d´ arrêt?
¿Qué es lo que te hace parar y reflexionar?
Waarvoor zou je still blijven staan?
Wofür halten Sie inne?

This question motivated my street-performance SILENCE, traveling to various cities in Europe in summer 2018. The question in its own timeless relevance represented my inner answer to contemporary global events. “What is it that makes you pause and contemplate” as a dialogue with people I don´t know, living at various places in very various ways, and who encounter the question on the street maybe by chance and might refer to it or not, might even not perceive that it is there, or do very well perceive it and then maybe pick it up just in thoughts, but maybe then also reply in writing down their answers on the paper band placed on the ground during the performance. The question was raised sculpturally and in the language of performance, in Silence and without a spoken word. It was written down on the paper band, inviting people to write down their answers. The performance tour was dedicated to the phenomenon of a daily event and its energy of a momentary encounter, inspiring us to grasp it or not. The Presence Performance SILENCE intended to move a space of Silence through the urban spaces that people were welcome to refer to or not.

The exact places in the cities and the times of performance during the day fell into place along the movement of the tour, with only a very short-term information appearing on my homepage before.

In the meantime, during the pandemic situation over the last years, showing the timeless actuality of both the performance question and all its collected answers in the urban space, a “FILM-CONCERT” has been created and performed in Germany, several times. It is documenting the art project – as a compilation and presentation of the performance results in a movie documentary with simutaneous live concert. An indeed moving testimonial of contemporary events, thoughts, emotions and spontaneous interaction.

 

Presence Performance SILENCE with Rena Meyer Wiel
may to july 2018 in settled weather conditions in the urban public space

LOGROÑO  28.5. * Calle Portales, 17.00

PAMPLONA 3.6. * Plaza del Castillo, 17.00

PARIS 10.6. * Rue St Merri / Centre Georges Pompidou, 12.00

STUTTGART 18.6. * Königstrasse / Schlossplatz, 11.00

MUNICH 19.6. * Marienplatz, 17.00

KONSTANZ 21.6. * Münsterplatz, 12.00

ZURICH 24.6. * Weinplatz / Rathausbrücke, 15.00

BERN 25.6. * Münstergasse / Mosesbrunnen, 17.00

BASEL 26.6. * Marktplatz, 15.00

FREIBURG 27.6. * Martinstor, 15.00

AMSTERDAM 3.7. * Dam, 15.00

LONDON 10.7. * South Bank, The Queen´s Walk / Gabriel´s Wharf, 12.00

BERLIN 28.7. * Museumsinsel, 17.00

BONN 31.7. * Münsterplatz / Vivatsgasse, 17.00