http://art.newcity.com/2009/05/25/review-several-silencesrenaissance-society/ Reviews, profiles and news about art in Chicago Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:08:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://art.newcity.com/2009/05/25/review-several-silencesrenaissance-society/comment-page-1/#comment-146 rcfurnari Wed, 27 May 2009 21:32:08 +0000 http://art.newcity.com/?p=3279#comment-146 I'd like to point out that Cage's 4'33" was not a blank score and that it was, importantly, broken into three separate movements that are timed and visually indicated -- usually by the movements of a given performer. I say this because there seems to me some importance to the idea of structure within silence, or expectation with silence. It's never, in the instances of this review, an absolute blank or nothingness. It is embodied. Cage's work feels undeniably different to me than a metonymic abstraction or a stark white plane. I’d like to point out that Cage’s 4’33″ was not a blank score and that it was, importantly, broken into three separate movements that are timed and visually indicated — usually by the movements of a given performer. I say this because there seems to me some importance to the idea of structure within silence, or expectation with silence. It’s never, in the instances of this review, an absolute blank or nothingness. It is embodied. Cage’s work feels undeniably different to me than a metonymic abstraction or a stark white plane.

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