May 11 - July 31, 2006 / Silence Part One (A Surface Excavation): Carola Cintrón-Moscoso’s Un minuto de Silencio (A Minute of Silence) & Alejandro Quinteros’s My political opinion during the time of American abundance.

“Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death.” — John Cage (from Silence, read the full text here).

What is silence if it is not the absence of sound? 312 presents a new two-part series—Silence (A Surface Excavation). In part one, two artists living in San Juan, Puerto Rico explore different conceptions of silence. Cintrón-Moscoso asks random individuals in a Puerto Rican park to hold a personal minute of silence for lost loved ones, while Quinteros explores political apathy and the silence of complicity by focusing on the swallowing reflex.

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ABOUT SILENCE (A SURFACE EXCAVATION)
Silence is a two-part series of three artist videos. The series is a brief exploration of silence, from reflection to stillness, through the works of Carola Cintrón-Moscoso & Alejandro Quinteros (live & work in San Juan, Puerto Rico) and Alla Girik & Oksana Shatalova (live and work in Rudny, Kazakhstan).