Silent Cacophony Blog.
Candela Delgado-Marín.
November 2013.
Unlearning Cultural Events: My experience with Silent Cacophony
As a PhD candidate, I have been carefully instructed on how to approach the organization of a cultural event. As a European immigrant in London, I have frequently been informed about the stories London hides. As an academic, I have been, at times, forbidden to bring emotions to the guardian sciences of Art and History.
But I was lucky enough to get involved in Silent Cacophony; an event orchestrated without hidden propaganda, formal publicity processes or fixed and imposed master schedules. Silent Cacophony has grown organically out of the genuine respect and interest artists around London felt towards the scars left in the city by the aerial attacks during both World Wars. The memory of the victims, in this case, will be articulated, not by canonical remembrance commemorations, but by sensitive forms of visual arts, turning silent spaces into evanescent memorials, where, this time, empathy and sympathetic feelings will be welcomed.
The success of Silent Cacophony is unpredictable, and that is part of its significance and beauty. Artists and beholders will experience the freedom granted by the city of London.
If you were involved in the social media dialogue, in the creative acts, or if you were passing by and decided to devote your time in silence and stillness to one of the locations and artists, you approached the road to unlearn and challenge traditional concepts of heritage, history, art and memory.
Sounds and lull will establish a dialogue tomorrow around London to honour the victims of the Zeppelin and V2 attacks; an injustice upon innocence that art and citizens will not forget.