Marina Abramović (foto Zala Opara | Circa) Marina Abramović wants the Glastonbury Festival Crowd to Be Quiet for A Minute More Specifically, She Wants Them to Remain Silent for Exactly Seven Minutes. Artists, Musicians, and Philosophers have Long Explored the Value of Stillness, Emptiness, and Silence. In his White Paintings (1951), Artist Robert Rauschenberg Painted Monochrome Canvases that Allowed in Life in the Form of Viewers’ Shadows. Composer John Cage Famously Provoked the Music World with his Composition 4’33” (1952), In Which A Pianist Sits Still at their Instrument for the Allotted Time, So that Ambient Noise Helped Define the Music Itself. Artist Yves Klein Notoriously Showed an Empty White Gallery in Paris, Calling It Simply Le Vide (1958). Now, Artist Marina Abramović is Calling for A Spell of Silence at an Event that is Known for the Opposite, the Glastonbury Festival, Which Started Out Five Decades Ago as A Simple Music Festival on A Farm in England’s Somerset Region, and has Since Grown to Mammoth Proportions as an Event for Theater, Comedy, Dance, and Various Other Art Forms. Crowds at the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival (foto Ben Birchall | PA Images) At the Festival’s Iconic Main Forum, the … Meer lezen over Artnet News | Brian Boucher – Marina Abramović wants the Glastonbury Festival Crowd to Be Quiet for A Minute