Ställföreträdande tystnad (Deputy Silence)
There is no such thing as absolute silence. In an absolutely silent place, such as an anechoic chamber, one would soon be overwhelmed by the almost deafening sounds generated by your own body. Deep in a forest far from any civilisation looking at beautiful scenery one might perceive silence even though it is by no means silent. What is silence is relative; dependent on the context and the meaning we might assign to it.
The possibility of creating a silent zone was tested in the Silent Sound Sculpture project (http://cid.nada.kth.se/tystljud/), which tried to create prerequisites for collaboration across disciplines and bring together art and science. Deputy Silence emerged out of the meeting between the vision of a silent zone that creates space for thought and action and the kind of silence that appears when you run out of fuel. The sound and video works presented at ID:I focuses on the transition between sound and silence and between chaos and calm. How does the visual noise affect our perception of silence?/Sten-Olof Hellström