Approaching Silence

Approaching silence

"Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform." / Pythagoras

Concepts of the Milena principle

 Silent workers  : artists working behind the screens, on an almost hidden way, blended in society, on a meditative way, not changing by manipulation but by ideas that are integrated in society on a slow and natural way. Our work is not about fastening, but about slowing down. We influence the world on an implicite way, with attention and care, working through and with friendship. We create human ‘fields of connection and resonance’. Politics of the heart is an example.  

Silent art works : works that become part of the location, that not add a presence or manipulate the location but let you see and experience what is already there, and which as well surpass the distance between the public and the art work (public participates, resonates with the art work) and the distance between the public and the artist (Jeder Mensch, ein Künstler)

Art as a gesture : minimal interventions with a poetical attitude leading to performances in the urban environment and the landscape in  Belgium, Naumburg, Kassel, Berlin, Amsterdam, Venice, Braga, Tibaes and as an Urban Intervention Team (WIT) via texts, sounds and images

The way inwards : the way of becoming silent in opposite to a way outwards which is the way of sound. Alternative ways of moving, not the direction counts or the effect but the transformation that we initiate.

Performance : the body as art work,  a silent living body as an image and as a presence, art as organism, living process. Performance is unique, unrepeatable and makes the public part of the event in the here and now. Our performances are with the still or moving body are done in silence or with an introspective attitude (reflecting about wordless communication, language as a gesture or touch).

Fields : creating works of art of resonating spaces (color, sounds), interior and exterior, works of art that invite to enter a space to make a movement/voyage inwards, meet yourself in silence

Our works is as well a research to find to silence in image, sound and words.

the Milena principle :

·         reflection

·         being on the road

·         participation

·         experience

·         connection and to let go at the same time

Project about the experience of silence in a broad and multidisciplinary perspective

Universal aspects of silenc e:

·         Silence connects (on of the few concepts that are truly universal)

·         Silence creates attention  for quality of life

·         Silence is free of ideology

·         Silence invites to ‘act locally – think globally’