Social Silence

Social Silence

Last modified: 12.02.2014

Project by: Thu Trang Tran, Olga Daria Mozejko, Lara Maria Neumann, Sari Harmark Schøntaun, Ugne Sapokaite.

The installation is staged in collaboration with the Northern Winter Beat festival and aims to create an experience of social interaction contrasting the loud and noisy concerts. The atmosphere would be achieved through the usage of specific videos and complete silence. The installation is conducted to observe social interaction in an unexpected environment, when the visitors are not able to use one of the most essential interaction tools - speech. The project is based on the research question: If we create a relational artwork that removes an important social tool - speech - what will then happen to the sociaaubl interaction and can we thereby investigate the habitus of the social systems of the participants?