ABSTRACT
Notating silence might emerge as a decentring and de-organizing practice: as the ethical unravelling of the human towards a broader and more distributed ecological existence. The shift from constructive to destructive potentiality would seem to displace the tabula rasa, locating it not at the beginning of a project the blank canvas or slate, the silence preceding utterances but at the end. Silence is believed to emerge within the paradoxical co-existence of such polarities that are normally considered as discordant. Worshipping paradox through silence and stillness is expressed in the work of Arvo Part and John Cage. Emptiness is an opening of space with an intense future direction, something that can be connected to the waiting qualities of silence. Silence is another way of understanding our being-in-the-world and embodied dwelling, as through its experience we can connect to the surrounding context and communicate with other individuals in the framework of 'the texture of communicative praxis'.
