silence matters was an international, interdisciplinary exhibition- and performance project. It dedicated its focus on the growing importance and potential need of awareness and mindfulness in our society, through artistic and scientific approaches. The project aims to heighten the experience and knowledge about awareness and its research through and with contemporary art practices, such as: performance, sculpture, drawing, and sound.

silence matters put emphasis on the individual perception, personal awareness, and the experience of time and duration. We intended to open new spaces and situations, in which the public and audience is invited to experience and enter this field of research together with the artists involved.

Liv Schellander and Kamila Wolszczaks’ collaboration derives from their individual interests in the topic of orality, storytelling and the process of (oral) transformation. For Silence Matters they choose to work with chewable material and gum as a mediator to create a duo performance.

silence matters was a project initiated and realized by the Verein “Collaboration: interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit in Performance- und Kunstprojekten”. Head of project and curator: Jasmin Schaitl Co-Curator Anne Glassner