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13 Highbury Mews, Islington
1969
Peter Collymore
Modernism in Metroland
The Quietest Place
[I posted this as a response to this post, but felt I should post what I wrote in a separate post, as well.]
The quietest place I’ve ever been was just inside Joseph Beuys’ “Plight” installation (1985) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2007. I will never forget the experience... I could hear my own heart beating without even trying to slow my breathing down. It was unreal.
It wasn’t a busy day at the museum so it was generally quiet (plus the installation was put in a section that’s intentionally away from external noise), so I just stayed there for a long time, I’m not even sure how long -- 30 minutes? An hour? More? It always stuck with me, not just because of the silence the installation creates/causes, but also because there’s something incredibly beautiful about it, and the piece is extremely personal and autobiographical:
“For this experiential work, Beuys covered the space with rolls of felt, his favourite material, that is linked to a persona, a mythology.“
“As an aviator during the Second World War, Beuys crashed in Crimea; he is said to have been saved by Tatars who rolled him up in felt blankets. The thermal and acoustic insulation inherent in the material is signified here by a closed piano, a blackboard with a musical staff without notes, and a thermometer. When the visitor enters the space, all the senses are called upon. This ambivalent environment gives an impression of warmth and protection, but also of isolation and silence.” (Via the Centre Pompidou)
Here are a couple photos of Joseph Beuys and his installation at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery in London in 1985:
What if silence is in fact a sound, but because its a universal sound we just adapted to it and dont notice it anymore
I actually just wrote a paper on this!!
The short of it is, yes, that's exactly what happens. There's no such thing as pure silence outside of a vacuum (and inside a vacuum you'd be dead). So basically your ears are constantly adapting to the noise threshold of your surroundings and slowly ignoring it. If you were in a perfectly silent room (anechoic chambers are cool!) you would actually start to hear the sound of existing!
Isn't there some room full of sound baffling foam or something that absorbs all ambient noise and most people go mad from the isolation because they start to hear things like their own circulatory system and their heartbeat pounding in their ears?
Ah, there it is. Orfield Labratories in Minnesota. They say the longest anyone's been able to stay inside was 45 minutes, as they could hear their lungs expanding and their digestive system working overtime.
The quietest place I’ve ever been was just inside Joseph Beuys’ “Plight” installation (1985) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2007. I will never forget the experience... I could hear my own heart beating without even trying to slow my breathing down. It was unreal.
It wasn’t a busy day at the museum so it was generally quiet (though the installation was put in a section that’s intentionally away from external noise), so I just stayed there for a long time, I’m not even sure how long (30 minutes? An hour? More?). It always stuck with me, not just because of the silence the installation creates/causes, but also because there’s something incredibly beautiful about it, and the piece is extremely personal and autobiographical:
“For this experiential work, Beuys covered the space with rolls of felt, his favourite material, that is linked to a persona, a mythology.“
“As an aviator during the Second World War, Beuys crashed in Crimea; he is said to have been saved by Tatars who rolled him up in felt blankets. The thermal and acoustic insulation inherent in the material is signified here by a closed piano, a blackboard with a musical staff without notes, and a thermometer. When the visitor enters the space, all the senses are called upon. This ambivalent environment gives an impression of warmth and protection, but also of isolation and silence.”
Here are a couple photos of Joseph Beuys and his installation at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery in London in 1985:
i don't care about birds that mate for life. let's hear about the birds that get divorced.
this is really fucking funny actually
omg these ducks ARE trans
I went looking for info on this and TESLA OWNERS ARE TRYING TO PROVE THIS WRONG BY DRIVING THEIR TESLAS AT THEIR OWN CHILDREN. The gov't had to be like hey please don't. Please don't aim your entire car at your child. Please not even if your foot is hovering over the break the whole time, don't let your car drive at a small human being.
Anyway if you're interested, the above tweets were likely inspired by the Dawn Project running a test on the full self-driving, for which they provided full details.
Hes charging <3
just give him like 10 minutes, he’s halfway there
I KIND OF JUST REALIZED THAT JESSIE FROM TEAM ROCKET FORMS A FUCKING R WITH HER HAIR AND BODY
WHY DID IT TAKE ME OVER 10 YEARS TO REALIZE THIS
JAMES YOU LITTLE SHIT NOT YOU TOO
I never realized this until you pointed it out
holy fucking shit
they love doing this btw, here’s a small compilation
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if you take a 40 mg edible, drink a cappuccino, and pour yourself a cocktail at 9 am. you too can start making banana bread, pick up your phone to check a measurement, forget what you were doing, and loom over a bowl of mashed banana for 10 minutes without moving
oh don’t worry that was in there too!
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