Bice Curiger presents the theme of the 2020 edition of E.A.T.: “Silent – Listen.” Since the performance of “4'33''” (1952), a piece by American artist and composer John Cage in which not a single note is played, silence has been part of the artistic practice of interdisciplinary artists. Curiger also points to the problematic aspects of silence, in which dangers might spread unnoticed. “Smashed to pieces (in the still of the night)” (1991), an installation by the American artist Lawrence Weiner, serves as a reminder of this.
“Silent – Listen: two words formed with the same six letters, which are therefore anagrams of one another.”
– Bice Curiger
