In 2013 Outset Greece supported the exhibition Silent Space Stand Still at the Museum of Greek Folk Art, Athens.
Silent Space Stand Still was an exhibition exploring the use of sound in a mosque in central Athens that has long been silent. A series of sound interventions took place in the Tzisdaraki mosque in Monastiraki Square over the period of a month. Four artists, namely Athanasios Argianas, Tarek Atoui, Cevdet Erek and Dani Gal, used the medium of sound in their work give a performance, a talk or made some sort of live presentation inside or around the mosque. Following on from each performance, a work of theirs including elements of sound was housed in the mosque for a week. The exhibition thus functioned as a series of solo presentations which in turn constitute an exhibition unit with its internal rhythms, exclamation marks, pauses and, finally, full stop.
Silent Space Stand Still aimed to generate a dialogue with the space, the mosque being experienced anew through contemporary works of art. In particular, the exhibition reintegrated sound into a space originally built for that medium, an echo of the building's original architectural purpose. The exhibition explored how sound can activate and frame physical space through a variety of strategies like rhythm, percussion, pitch, the use of voice and other instruments, the sampling of sounds and digital synthesis. Through a series of gestures and interventions the exhibition suggested an architecture of sound that can resonate through the site, and its history, touching the people inside it.
ON VIEW: 29th March – 27th April 2013
