Escape Program | Voices of Silence

Curator: Dalia Levin
Sep. 2, 2006 - Nov. 11, 2006

Quartette, 2003, video, 4:23 min
Escape Program
Communication and the lack thereof furnish a major theme for the works of the Moscow-based Escape Program group established in 1999. Issues pertaining to the impossibility or unwillingness to listen are addressed in the video piece Quartette and the short monologue text accompanying it. A string ensemble is seen playing a Beethoven quartette in a dark, intimate room suitable for chamber music, but the soundtrack plays a quartette by Shostakovitch. The incongruence between the visible image and the sound is gradually revealed to the viewer.

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