Individually stamped exhibition announcement card that Galerie Köstring/Maier, München
sent through the post to regular gallery visitors
Encyclopaedia of Silent Art
To make this work of silent art you must first enter a room in which there is a telephone. Wait for the telephone to ring, answer it and note the date and time of the ensuing conversation _______ at _____ am/pm. Wait for a second call and again note the date and time. _______ at _____ am/pm. Now calculate the length of time that passed between these two conversations by making every 60 minutes equal 3 centimetres: ______hrs. _______min. = _______cm
Take out this length of silence from the orange rectangle above and place it on the adjoining corner wall. You have now completed this work of silent art.
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Announcement card [posted as the exhibition invitation]:
The Bureau wishes to advise that silence can be saved and turned into substance by following these simple directions. Enter a room in which there is a telephone, wait for it to ring, answer it and note the date and time of the conversation: _______ at _____ am/pm. Now wait again for a second conversation: _______ at _____ am/pm. Calculate the length (substance) of time (silence) that passed between these two conversations by making every 60 minutes equal 3 centimetres: _______min. = _______cm. Results are to be recorded in the ‘Encyclopaedia of Silent Art’ at the room for two corners and a cube. Thank you.
Stamped by the Bureau of Calculating Silence © 1965
