沉默的时刻
《沉默的时刻》是一项创新和沉浸式的装置，探索纪念仪式的起源、历史和未来。该装置由帝国战争博物馆委托，由59 Productions创作，并作为帝国战争博物馆的“创造新世界”活动的一部分。
该装置由两个不同的空间组成，作为艺术品，反映了纪念仪式两种截然不同的方法。第一个是一个全方位音响体验，与剧院音效设计师Gareth Fry合作，在一个完全黑暗且音效可控的空间里让观众体验一系列的“默哀分钟”。录音包括各种各样的寂静，从1929年阵亡将士纪念仪式上首次记录下的寂静到现在在德比郡足球俱乐部、利物浦街站、珠穆朗玛峰大本营和阿斯图特级潜艇“Ambush”上记录的寂静。
第二个空间则利用帝国战争博物馆和英联邦战争墓地委员会等机构的大量存档数据，在独特的光影投影空间中呈现这些数据，将数据集的概念与实体纪念碑相结合。
两种不同的沉默体验形成了对比，引发观众对经历和纪念仪式的思考，并为个人纪念提供了一个空间。
这个帝国战争博物馆的独特委托为其纪念馆带来了一种创造性的回应，纪念馆原本是一座在一战后设计的全国哀悼中心。这座纪念馆原本计划展示由约翰·辛格·萨金特、斯坦利·斯宾塞和保罗·纳什等人委托创作的艺术品，但该计划从未实现。
Moments of Silence
Moments of Silence is an innovative and immersive installation exploring the origins, history and future of remembrance rituals. Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum and created by 59 Productions, the installation is part of IWM’s Making a New World season.
The installation comprises of two distinct spaces that as artworks reflect two diametrically opposed approaches to remembrance. The first is an ambisonic experience, created with theatrical sound designer Gareth Fry, that places audiences in a series of ‘minutes of silence’ in a completely dark and acoustically-controlled space. The recordings include a wide-ranging variety of silences, from the first ever recorded silence at the 1929 Cenotaph Remembrance Service to present day silences recorded at Derby County Football Club, Liverpool Street Station, Everest Base Camp and HMS Ambush, an Astute Class Submarine.
The second draws on the vast archive of data from the Imperial War Museum and Commonwealth War Graves Commission amongst others, presenting this data in a unique light and projection space that mixes the ideas of data sets with physical memorials.
The counterpoint between the two different experiences of silence invites audiences to consider both the experience and the ritual of remembrance, as well as offering a space for personal remembrance.
This unique commission from the IWM offers a creative response to its Hall of Remembrance, a proposed centre for national mourning designed after the First World War. The hall was intended to display commissioned artworks by John Singer Sargent, Stanley Spencer and Paul Nash but was never realised.
First World War. The hall was intended to display commissioned artworks by John Singer Sargent, Stanley Spencer and Paul Nash but was never realised.
