{"id":534,"date":"2014-03-06T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/?post_type=product&p=534"},"modified":"2016-01-12T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T11:07:21","slug":"4-3-on-silence","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/product\/4-3-on-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"4.3 On Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The greatest irony about silence is that there has been so much said about it. In fact, in this noisiest of centuries, silence has emerged as one of the richest areas of critical enquiry and most powerful elements of artistic expression. For the final issue of this millennium, Performance Research will look at its nature, uses and meaning across the fields of performance. We wish to explore silence as metaphor, as practice, as absence, emptiness and experience, political silence and silencing, musical and visual silence, and the place of silence in the history of the avant garde, as well as linguistic and philosophical approaches to silence.
\nEditorial: Sounding Out
\nClaire MacDonald
\npp. iii – iv
\nPerformative Silences
\nRudi Laermans
\npp. 1 – 6
\nThe Silence of Photographs
\nJean Baudrillard
\npp. 7 – 7
\nUnderstanding Silence: Meaning and interpretation
\nLisa Schwartz
\npp. 8 – 11
\nPerformance in the Proximity of Silence
\nJohn Lutterbie
\npp. 12 – 16
\nSee to Hear – Deaf Sign Language as Performance
\nLib Taylor
\npp. 17 – 23
\nPartition du Silence, 1997
\nPierre Huyghe
\npp. 24 – 24
\nSilence – The Development of a New Musical-Theatrical Category
\nRegine Elzenheimer
\npp. 25 – 33
\nErotic Silence
\nSimon Shepherd
\npp. 34 – 39
\nAcoustic Shadows: Cast behind the curtain
\nShirley MacWilliam
\npp. 40 – 46
\nSurface Noise\/Silent Sea
\nPeter Stafford
\npp. 47 – 50
\nAudible WITHIN: Brian Catling’s performance soundings
\nAaron Williamson
\npp. 51 – 59
\nCommitted to Paper: Curating for the page
\nClaire MacDonald
\npp. 60 – 63
\njust for now (and then)\u2026 some notes on time and event [artist’s pages]
\nMonica Ross
\npp. 64 – 71
\nSilent Images [artist’s pages]
\nVit Hopley, Yve Lomax
\npp. 72 – 75
\nGeometries of Attention [artist’s pages]
\nJoan Retallack
\npp. 76 – 81
\nObserve Silence! A fabrication and experience of silence [artist’s pages]
\nBernie Lubell
\npp. 82 – 89
\nStill-life Drawing of a Conversation
\nJoseph Grigley
\npp. 90 – 90
\nDying Swans or Sitting Ducks? A critical reflection on feminist gazes at ballet
\nAlexandra Carter
\npp. 91 – 98
\nBook Reviews
\nDrew Milne, John Hall
\npp. 99 – 106
\nSounding Silence: An archive
\nClaire MacDonald
\npp. 107 – 114
\nNotes on Contributors
\npp. 115 – 116<\/p>\n\n\n