The installations responding on SILENCE of respectively Richard Crow and Iben Bentzen together with the screening of Katarina Löfström's videos are selected by AGM ­ annual general meeting. An initiative based in Copenhagen and Berlin headed by the two curators and artists Alfredo Cramerotti and Iben Bentzen.

AGM05 wants to explore different sides and angles of the notion of silence. We have encourage the invited artists to address silence with different approach eg. silence and politics, silence and urbanity, silence and nature, physical and psychological silence. Silence has multi-layered meanings. If you stay silent, you may consent or negate according to specific situations and contexts. Silence is used and understood differently according to ethnic, national or religious customs. Silence is not only to be seen as opposed to noise, or as a term used within sound-experimental practice, but also as a tool in political discourse. Silence is not easy to explore these days: where is total silence? There's beautiful silence and there's frightening silence. Does silence exist in physical terms?

The AGM idea
AGM (annual general meeting) aims to build collaborations and develop new connections among artists, curators, participants and audiences. For "AGM 05 SILENCE" we aim to enhance and foster the exchange between Canadian artists, or artists who already collaborated with SOUNDplay, with a group of European artists and with the AGM structure.

We see AGM as a meeting, a sort of T.A.Z. where exchange, work, and collaboration are generated and continuously fluxing and shuffling, with no beginning and no end. And for this reason, every AGM lasts some days, in order to create the conditions for this exchange throughout a period of time spent working together.

Contact: Nadene Theriault-Copeland at
416-910-7231, 905-454-5714,
or naisa@soundtravels.ca.