Synopsis

How can silence be encountered? Speaking back, this ten day project started with observing people who entered the building and the passers by, where the space became private or public. Having established that the public- private divide could be defined spatially in relation to distance from the front facade of the building, a red line was drawn to define the separation of these two spaces.

Forty different questions were then put to passers by and the people who visited the court. The questions were various - personal / impersonal public / private, social, political, funny and trivial. They were then asked to write their answers in chalk on the floor upon a grid of paving slabs already forming a definite carpet of given elements.

The result was an evolving piece of many comments which was continually eroded by the passage of feet or washed away by rain- some survived a little longer, some did not.

Maria Kheirkhah