Tacet: Extrinsic

A durational performance for a silent performer sitting within an orchestra, or an ensemble, through a concert. The silent performer is indistinguishable from any other performers on the stage except for the fact that they (the silent performer) never picks up an instrument or makes a sound. By performing silence which is not integral to the composition while sitting within an orchestra, whose performers perform both sound and silence, the artist tries to get the viewer to reflect on the importance of sound and silence in music, and their role as two integral sides of a whole which only exist in relation to each other. Duration and size variable. Performed with Sinfonia Nord, Kammerkór Norðurlands and Söngsveitin Fílharmónía conducted by Anna-Maria Helsing with soloists Ágúst Ólafsson, Garðar Thór Cortez, Hanna Dóra Sturludóttir and Helena Guðlaug Bjarnadóttir. Photographs by Auðunn Níelsson and Bragi Kort