Text: Lectures on Silence by John Cage

Guides: Czarina & Nathan

Place: Williamsburg

In 1952, John Cage composed perhaps his most famous work: 4'33", an instrumental performance where the musicians took the stage, sat at attention, and played… nothing. Four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence. No twentieth-century artist challenged more powerfully the meaning of silence and nothingness than Cage, whose work drew deeply on his commitment to Zen philosophy. We'll read from his famous "Lectures on Nothing," and will ask what there is to be heard in silence — which may prove to contain a good bit more than nothing at all!

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