Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

For Rrauw you enter a large installation by visual artist Laure Delamotte-Legrand. You take a place in a sort of cocoon with a subcutaneous texture as you are invited to experience the elements handed to you by Eric Thielemans: a core text about silence that kicked off his research on silence and sound, a scientific drawing of the inner ear and a picture of listening musicians.

On the 16th, 17th, and the 18th of October at 6 p.m. you can experience an ‘ear film’ in the installation: an aural reproduction of Thielemans’s research into silence and sound, which he started in Vooruit in 2002 with a four-strong improvisation collective. It’s a soundtrack about the many different kinds of silence: exciting silence, calm silence, loud silence, waiting silence…But silence wouldn’t be silence without the inevitable sound…