Author: Tomaz Grom
Artists: Loup Abramovici, Kristina Aleksova, Szymon Gąsiorek, Grega Zorc, Nataša Živković
The new musical work gravity of silence enters into connection with the opus of Lucky Kosovel. The event on the centenary of the poet's death is conceived as a sound reflection – it turns not to his poetry as a text, but as a sound idea. This is not an interpretation, but a response. The main focus is on establishing a musical language that reflects on the fundamental tensions of Kosovel's oeuvre: the split between order and dissolution, between the vision of construct and the force of disintegration, between inner necessity and aesthetic experiment, between utopia and destruction.
The gravity of silence is a performative sound composition about the departure, loss and transformation of the personal into the collective. At a time when suitcases are again a symbol of necessity rather than choice, the work opens up space to listen to what usually remains unspoken.
When the performers leave the space, the sound remains.
When the sound subsides, the question remains: who left-and who is listening?
hushed up violence,
trauma that is not talked about,
Personal Stories disappearing from public discourse,
weight of the unspoken,
sound without body,
track without author,
presence without presence,
a power that makes absence out of the body, but at the same time keeps it as perceptible,
the silence we flee from, filling it with interpretations, projecting fear into it,
silence as a normalization of violence,
numbness,
accustomed to the sound of disaster,
the silence that stretches time,
erases linearity,
it creates a feeling of waiting without a goal, arrival, return.
The gravity of silence as a threat, testimony, obliteration of the subject, only traces remain.