Find the quietest place. | Jace Clayton | The Art Assignment
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
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In which Jace Clayton, aka DJ /Rupture, challenges you to take a walk from where you live and find the quietest place. Once you're there, take it in for a moment and then make a short video or take some photos there.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Go outside and walk in the direction that is the quietest
2. Continue until you're in the quietest place possible
3. Take a moment to absorb it. Then document it through photography or video.
4. Upload it using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)
Learn more about Jace's work here: www.jaceclayton...
And hear him talk about his work here: vimeo.com/7415...
Artworks mentioned include John Cage's 4'33" (1952/53) and Charles Baudelaire's essay The Painter of Modern Life (1863).
Thanks to all of our participants!:
Hank Green: @hankgreen, www.hankgreen.com
Hannah Hart: @harto, www.helloharto....
Brian DeGraw: www.beedeegee.com/
Ransom Riggs and Tahereh Mafi:
@ransomriggs, www.ransomriggs...
@TaherehMafi, www.taherehbook...
The Gregory Brothers @gregorybrothers, www.thegregoryb...
Jace was in town as an artist in residence with the organization
We Are City: www.wearecity.us/
This episode was filmed in Indianapolis at Indy Reads Books: www.indyreadsbo...
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we hunted silence for over an hour. it is the most elusive prey of new york city.
The quiet party within.
Silence is extremely rare. After a snow storm is a good place to start. I have only found it twice in my lifetime.
Now seriously looking for it in a CITY??? Really folks not very likely!
Bill Swingle you might be surprised, it is hard but not impossible
Yes so true sometimes that rare moment comes along when there's no cars on the street it's complete silent and it feels as if the world has stopped.
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Finding a channel like this is like being given an unexpected present you didn't know you needed.
This assignment actually freaks me out a little. This is mostly because I live in the middle of Baltimore city, really close to a prison. I've been taught through living in this area that there's a bit of uneasiness or even danger when the streets of this city are quiet.
I would definitely recommend doing your assignment with a buddy! Maybe travel a little further away to areas of Baltimore where you could find some quiet like fed hill, canton, or the inner harbor :)
This is part of my consideration. I know areas in my city that are dead silent, but it's due to the lack of safety.
Lolz. I live in east Oakland and I kinda wanna stay away from the quietest places...
This assignment is great and I wish I could be able to enjoy it. Sadly, I have tinnitus and without a certain threshold of white noise there is an intense high pitched whine in my ears; the quieter is get the louder the whine becomes. Staying in a quiet place for too long is very uncomfortable for me.
I think you should still participate but instead find the loudest place possible! That could be interesting & it sounds like you could benefit from it as well :)
I liked the inclusion of other people completing the assignment. It shows others interpreting without the benefit of the assigner right there, so it shows more range in outcomes.
The quietest place in my neighbourhood is the cemetery not far from my house. It may sound a little creepy, but I like going there. There's lots of bunnies and deer. (who eat the flowers at night!)
A few years ago I was travelling and went for a hike. At some point I felt like something was off and stopped walking and in that moment I realized, that the only sound I heard were my own foot steps.
No wind, no birds, no planes, no cars - complete silence.
It was an equally powerful and eerie moment and I will never forget it.
I love the one in the party store! That was brilliant.
This assignment is like finding the negative space in your environment. Instead of being about where the sculpture or ink isn't, in a more traditional art piece, it's about where the sound/spectacle isn't, in our lives.
Applied meditation. And I get to explore around my neighborhood from a new perspective. What a delight!
I took a class that was based off of sound in our environment and our first project was to study silence. We talked a lot about John Cage's 4:33 and we went into an anechoic chamber. I participated in a project where people took snippets of their favourite sounds/silences and connected it on an online map so that others could listen to the sounds that you chose to listen to. One of the main things we focused on was the idea that silence isn't natural and how nature has just as much of a hum as every day life. We just drown out that natural noise with our own noises.
Similarly we had two major projects that were called "sound walks" which is a walk that could be somewhere you've walked many times before, but rather than viewing it with your eyes, you need to view it with your ears.
I love that you mentioned 4'33". I didn't know that it was well known by artists who are not musicians. I agree with Sarah in that it doesn't actually reflect the spirit of this assignment. In 4'33", the sounds that the audience make become the music.
The quietest place would probably be right outside my front door. My neighborhood is amazingly quiet and beautiful.
I just walked outside my front door and was already in the quietest place in my neighbourhood! I live in a suburb surrounded by bushland so you can never find a quiet spot, there's always a bird or something making a sound and I love it! I might try this at night
Bahahahaha.... i love that the quietest spot was a party store for her.
For some reason I really, really like this guy. Jace Clayton seems like one of the nicest and most chill people - looking forward to finding my quiet place!
I DO THIS ALL THE TIME IM SO HAPPY IT IS CONSIDERED ART!!
One reason I love cemeteries. Usually fairly quiet and peaceful.
I loved the inclusion of other people's view of their quietest places.
It's really interesting to reflect on quiet. I always think it's quiet when my kids are asleep [like now, during nap time]. But as I sit here and listen, I hear a truck in the background, I hear the hum of the fridge, I hear the distant rumble of the highway, I hear people dragging their feet as they walk outside.
This is will be a challenge as I'm new to the area that I live in, but I look forward to exploring.
Love this. I know exactly where I can go. I live in the middle of the busiest part of my city, but only 5 minutes from the woods. I can't wait!
I was immediately reminded of Veritasium 's recent video where he sat in a special sound-killing room in perfect darkness for an hour.
YES YES ME TOO !
Sitting in my living room listening to the construction around the corner and the buses/cars going up and down the street and the helicopters/planes flying overhead makes me excited for this assignment and to get away from a lot of the noise.
I'm definitely going to have a go at this one! Quiet is such a subjective thing, it can be amazingly elusive or it can be everywhere all at once, just as it can be peaceful or it can be frightening, so this is a very interesting art assignment!
This assignment is truly amazing, especially for the generation we're in right now.
On a different note, I'm almost positive I squealed Hank's name when his video popped up. I will always be a nerdfighter, but it's great to see more of Sarah, she has such a beautiful mind.
We performed John Cage 4.33 at my old high school! We performed it in a concert in front of all our parents, but we didn't tell our parents what it was. They were so confused during the entire 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. It was a great moment.
I actually did this art assignment today with out even knowing this was an art assignment!! I went up a top a hill and the sky was a mesh of dark blue and purple and grey. I just heard birds and watched the sun set. It was lovely.
I live in the east side of Milwaukee, I'm excited to try to find a quiet place.
I remember last year trying to help my friend record nature sounds for a film project. There's a wooded area behind the giant 20-some story dorm buildings of our campus. We quietly stepped through the woods for 2 hours, trying to get the perfect sounds. It was almost a peaceful quiet, even though we were so close to the center of life on this college campus. We were able to get some bird sounds, the shuffle of a bunny, the sound of a squirrel skittering over leaves. We were approaching a woodpecker when a Packers game started and the cheering from almost every dorm window echoed down. It's interesting how impermanent quiet places can be.
I love the new sign off. It's also just plain good advice.
I tried out this assignment and I really enjoyed it! Here's a video about my quietest place and some of my thoughts: Thoughts from my Quietest Place
Thank you for inspiring what turned out to be a really lovely day.
I live in a tourist city in Italy. Not only is every inch of the city filled with people, but the wonderful views in the hills mean that every natural space is full of tourists as well. Even before I saw this art assignment I went out every weekend to try and find some quiet. Eventually I found a stone ledge that ran above a vineyard. The occaisional taxi goes by, but other than that it's my place :)
Living on a college campus, finding quiet places on campus at night (particularly on the weekends. And Tuesdays. And Thursdays) is quite difficult. But in the morning, it's almost impossible not to be surrounded by silence. Well, as much silence as there can be with the city buzzing dully in the background, or the various vans and vents of the large building working steadily away. It's quite amazing to walk around in the mornings on campus: it's a whole other campus than the one during the day or night.
Also relating to college, my roommate went to the same high school as Ransom Riggs, so that was unexpected to see him on here. And his books/photography collections are quite intriguing.
The quietest place I can recall was in the audience when my friend tried to do stand up comedy on open mic night.
I actually went to my quietest place just before seeing this, talk about bad timing! Then again, I don't mind going back there, which I will, really loving this one.
The quietest place I can think of is on campus in the basement of the library, in the gap between bookshelves all crammed together that you can crank to move. I used to go and sit back there in between my classes if I was feeling especially overwhelmed.
When I was staying in South of France, there is this little side walk within a residential area which was very quiet especially after dinner time. I had the habit to take a walk on it everyday after dinner. Because it is really quiet, you can hear everything, the wind, the insects, the stream and the animals. Then there is also this little road which will take you to the highest hill in the town. It is much far away, but very nice as well, there are lot of different landscape on the road, and I went there one time to see the sun rise without any road lamp. It was really fun and enjoyable. And it seems, without all the noises, you turn to be more observant about your surrounding as well.
I really am feeling this assignment. I live in a really quiet town. It is mostly elderly people and especially in the winter it is eerily quiet, during the summer it is really loud because I live only a mile from a public beach and tourists come here a lot. However my neighborhood is almost in the middle of a triangle made of two kennels and a bar so despite the elderly population and my affinity for night time strolls it is always loud. The beach at night would be really quiet and I know this dock on a river that doesn't have any waves so I will go there!
I wandered into the graveyard three blocks from my house. Peaceful and serene.
I love this assignment! I go look for quiet places all the time.
Oh this is amazing. Doing this would be very different because I usually walk with my headphones on. I am actually sure that two quetest places in my city is the Library park, a part of a bigger oak tree park in wich I like to walk anyways because of how peacefull it is, and the Central book store, because people keep quet there out of respect for the old and grand place.
This is going to sound nit-picky, but I can't make a way for it not to sound that way, so apologies, I'm really much more friendly than this makes me sound: John Cage's 4'33" is NOT about silence. It is true that the piano is tacit for all three movements, but the piece is part of the aleatoric music movement. Essentially, music within the aleatoric movement sounds different every time it is performed because its performance is based on the environment and time of its performance (see "Solo for Sliding Trombone" and "Imaginary Landscape No. 4" also by Cage, which are decidedly not about silence). It is music because it is framed as music within a specific environment for a set amount of time. That makes it music. The music in 4'33" is not the silence, but in the giggles, breathing, coughs, etc. made by those who participate. On some level this art assignment may be about that, but it is framed as a search for silence, while Cage framed his music as a search for sound within the environment, Cage also works to reframe what we mean by silence.
I feel like this is one of the easiest and most accessible Art Assignments so far. I actually really want to do this one.
I love finding new places around my home where I can be alone.. I love the idea of finding the quietest place, can't wait to try this assignment :)
I love this channel so hard. The assignments all bring you out of the comfort zone and off the internet into real life. Well done Green's and also to your army of awesome.
Sweater game is on point
There's a bench beside the church a few blocks away. It's off to the side in weird area with some plants. No one ever goes there. I like to sit there sometimes, even though I'm an atheist. This assignment reminds me of a lot of Japanese artistic principles, where what isn't shown is as important, if not more-so, than what is. It also calls to mind the scene from Dead Poet Society where they stand atop their desks to change their perspective. My perception is rarely focused so keenly on the noise level of my environment.
I just love this show
I'm so glad it exists!
This is so great. I love silence. It can be so magical!
This reminds me of the library at the conservatory I study at. It's a big building with 5 different art studies and throughout the building, everywhere is sound, from morning till evening. The only quiet place is this old little part of the library (the building is built ajoined to an old monastery). As soon as you walk in there, the quiet just comes over you like a blanket of silence :)
This is my favorite assignment so far, I will definitely be doing this one. I love the concept and meaning behind this.
Aw, Ransom & Tahereh sighting at the end! Can't wait to do this assignment!
This task reminds me of an Irish movie called Silence, by Pat Collins, where a sound recordist returns home from Berlin, after 15 years away, to record soundscapes free from artificial, man-made noises.
It's a slow, contemplative piece, which might put some off; then again, that's kind of the point. Well worth a gander for anyone intrigued by this assignment...
I could walk outside of my house and that would be it. I live on a dead end street and it's quieter than an open field and the middle of the woods in my neighborhood.
Same here! Small one way street, no houses behind and no houses in front, five houses in total. I am only five minutes from the city, but here there is only bush, except for the railway line that makes quite a lot of racket once an hour or so. I was wondering if it would defeat the purpose of the assignment to only go outside my door? But it has made me think about it for a while, and think about other places I could go and why, so I suppose it counts!
Here as well, dead end street in the Alabama backwoods.
I've been enjoying all the videos, but this is the assignment I'm excited for
I love this assignment, but I think it's more challenging when you live in a city. I really just need to step outside and it'll probably be quiet.
So far all of the artists featured are fairly urban centric. I guess there are no country artists. :/
I think it's surprising how UN-quiet a more natural setting can be. Nature can be loud. Remember the challenge is to find the quietEST place. It's all relative!
The Art Assignment About that: the most *peaceful* places I know are near moving water (whether it's a river or the ocean), but it's very much possible that I'll find a quieter place a bit further from the water. Do I have to leave the soothing lull of the waves?
This channel makes me so happy!
Love this idea! Made me feel pretty proud that I've already done this before. Time to find another quiet place with a camera and a book!
This is an especially challenging assignment for me, in the middle of summer where the cicada's din reigns supreme even over the traffic of the street I live on. I have a few ideas, possibly the cemetery a mile down the street, but it is surrounded by forest. I'll give it a go for sure though.
Ransom and Tahereh!!!!! I love seeing them! Hannah Hart, Hank Green!!!! This was an awesome video.
I did the assignment earlier today right after watching the video. It was great. Hopefully I can transfer the footage and share it soon!
Love this idea! I live in a really quiet neighborhood to begin with, so it'll be interesting to find somewhere even quieter than the normal level of quiet…maybe the cemetery just over the hill...
I think the quietest place in my neighborhood might be.....my neighborhood....It's just so quiet and peaceful! Which is weird, since the main highway isn't very far down the road.
I guess if I was going to find a super-duper-quiet place though....I think It would actually be in my brothers back-yard.
As I was watching this video, I realised how disturbing the noise is in my neighbourhood. I live in an apartment block next to a highway and it's almost impossible to have a quiet moment in here. I think I just got used to all the noise over the past years and I've come to the conclusion that real silence can be deafening for me, because of the environment I live in.
But I'm very excited to try this assignment though :) It makes it that much more of a challenge.
I love this channel, thank you both so much for doing this. So much to learn, so much to think about!
i love Jace. He's awesome and also this is really interesting.
When I tried to find the quietest place, I actually had a lot of trouble. After about 20 minutes of walking around the city, I decided that the quietest place was my neighborhood, but when I returned, 2 people were mowing their lawns, so it was no longer the quietest place. Its really interesting to think about the fact that the quietest place you find won't always be the quietest place.
Yes! Love this assignment! Not sure why I wasn't subscribed to this channel already? I make videos about art every Friday and I'm going to do this assignment!
5:27 I actually wear no shoes when walking (weather permitting). Obviously there are some areas where it’s not safe to be barefoot, but even in cities, as long as you keep an eye on where you’re going, it’s not a problem. The feel of the various surfaces beneath my feet help me connect with the environment.
I'm sensing a Vlogbrothers' Thoughts from Places style video coming on from this assignment!
I'm excited to search for silence!
I heard about John Cage's 4'33 today in my philosophy class for the first time today! (good timing I guess)
I would love to do this assignment in New York ahh! So excited! Once I find a quiet place I'm going to start reading :)
I think this one would be rather easy for me I live in the country in the South West of Western Australia it's usually quiet even walking along the highway, also Tahereh Mafi!!!
Yay, the first Assignment I think I can do! :) I live on a major road (and near the interstate), so it'll be a bit of a challenge to find somewhere approaching quiet, but I'm going to give it a go this weekend.
Quiet party stores or quiet stores in general are creepy. Thousands of products judging you. Or that is just me.
This is definitely my favorite one so far:)
Highly recommend this one
This one I am absolutely going to do! I might even try and do it when I´m out traveling next week. But I will certainly do it at home as well :)
This is very interesting I think I'm going to mix it with another art assignment and do it right now. Let's go!
about 500 kilometers southwest of Cairo there's a large national park called the white desert, it's beautiful and a little bit streotypically middle eastern, with camp sights right in the middle of no where, but there's a certain part that was on walking distance from the camp that was called the silence, when we reached this place or guide told us to stay quit for 5 minutes, it was different.
I think it's interesting that some of the people you asked to find a quiet place gravitated towards viewpoints despite the instructions. (I'm looking at you Hannah!) I guess when you know the outcome is a visual thing- especially in photograph form- it's easy to focus on that rather than the process.
I'm definitely going to do this one.
love this! I'm definitely going to try this out!
TAHEREH AND RANSOM!
This is going to be a challenge.
Mark's quietest place, right in my Cottage Home hood.
Hahaha, the Gregory brothers killed it!
I love. Your theme music.
me encantó este... mi favorito hasta ahora!
ok i might be lucky here...because i always find a silent place...i mean i know 2 such n i always go thr when i am not inn good mood...or bit stressed out... kinda once a week...n amazingly it acts a therapy...to feel the nature n just walk. 2nd place i sit daily in my own house...near my window...where i hav planted all the plants n all....i sip my coffee there... its beautiful.
I try to walk everywhere in my city I like to experience the people and the scenery never knew about flaneur
I, too, enjoy that moment of silence when the power goes out - until I realize that that constant hum was my refrigerator.
I live in a reasonably quiet place but I still feel like I should go for a walk tomorrow and find somewhere quieter.
I think I'll do this tomorrow, I'm expecting the Rideau Canal to be good, it's always been really quiet when I go there, unless tourists come along.
I need a quiet place!
I've been trying, but it's ultimately been very difficult. I moved to Madagascar in October, and the woods are full of the buzzing of insects and birdsong, and the villages are crammed full of people. XD
Brilliant!
Also- I think my own quietest place may be right in my backyard, because our neighbourhood is hemmed in on 3 sides by busier roads, and there's a school/park on the 4th side that is pretty much always busy
It's incredibly noisy allllll the time where I live, but I want to try this near my workplace. I live in a metropolis, and work in the boonies XD.
I might actually do this.. I live in outback Australia in a small town.. it wont take me long to find a quiet place.. though off the top of my head I think my room is deafeningly quiet. But none the less I will go for a walk tomorrow.
Who does the animations for the videos? I love the style.
Okay, seriously. I'm pretty sure Jace is the COOLEST guy I've never met.