Silent Sky Project# is an international project by the dutch artist Rob Sweere.

All around the globe groups of people are invited to have a Silent Conversation with the Sky. They are taking part in a growing artwork and have a personal new experience of their daily surrounding.

Silent Sky Project# consists of a series of small events, on many different locations, cultures and circumstances on the planet. All the events  together make it a global happening.

The setting in which the Silent Sky Project# is happening:

  • A group of people are invited to have a Conversation with the Sky. There is no limit to the amount of people.

  • Each group of people in the project should have a ‘natural’ relation with each other.

    This means that they can have a practical relation, like co-workers.
    Or there can be a conceptual relation, like people who share the same ideas and unite in a foundation. Or people who without knowing each other share the same public space.

  • Everyone taking part in the action looks at the Sky for 30 minutes, while lying on their back.
    The way  the group is positioned on the location is being choreographed by the artist.
    This is NOT a performance for an audience. In this project the action is for the personal individual
    experience of the participant.

  • Directly after the action experiences are being cullected from the participants by the artist and his (local) assistents.

  • A photo is made of the group having the Conversation with the Sky by the artist.

  • This picture will be returned to the group of people who did the action.
    This can happen in many forms. For example through postcards, a big print outside, a nice framed print in their building, on their website, etc. etc.

  • The artist, Rob Sweere, works together with the local people who invite him. Together they will look after the group of people invited.
    And also together they will look for a good moment and location to do the action.
    The location were the action is done has to have a ‘logical’ relation with this group of people.
    This can for example be the place were they work, or live. A conceptual relation is also possible.

  • Rob Sweere will make high quality photo prints of all the different actions. This series of photo’s can be used for presentations in galleries and museums.

  • A special website about the project  is under construction and will be put online. So everyone around the world can get information about the project and see the project grow.   

    

Thank You.

 

An international art-project by the dutch artist Rob Sweere (1963).

The Silent Sky Project# is one artwork which consists of small events happening in many different parts of the world. Together these events make it one big happening.

Silent Sky Project# is a project where the artist is directly involved in guiding the public into certain conditions to create an atmosphere for the most intense involvement in the artwork.

From 1989 until 1995 Rob Sweere has done many performances and actions, in museums, galleries and also outdoor in natural surroundings, questioning the possibility to frame an intense experience by camera. This resulted in performances with audience, photo works, video works and installations.

Since 1995 he creates circumstances for the public themselves to experience their daily surrounding in a different way. Feeling a certain lack in the ability to communicate his intense experiences to the public as frozen images he decided to work out a concept where the public themselves participate in the sculpture so they will have their own genuine experience. He invites people to become actively involved in his artworks. Already thousands of people have been in contact with his many different projects. And from their reactions Sweere feels stimulated to make his projects grow to make them available for more people.

 

SILENT SKY PROJECT#


In this project the earth is as the sculpture like object in his artwork. Considering the earth as a big ball floating in space, the surface of this ball is one big lookout.

Following the concept of this project the conversations with the sky will take place in many countries around the world, to create different points on the globe from where we look into space in a state of being intensified by group dynamics as well.

As a child we have been lying on our back in the grass and spend time looking into the sky. We looked at the clouds, gazed into space and gave room to our fantasies, our dreams, careless of culture, time and place.

And how often do we give ourselves this opportunity just to dream and do nothing special, now that we are grown up?  How much do you really see, how conscious are you of your daily surrounding? Do you really experience your environment? Or do we use this space just to move from one place to another to fulfil our daily duties?

In the Silent Sky Project# Sweere invites groups of people to spend time together lying on their back and looking into the sky. You do this together and at the same time you are by yourself looking from your own inner universe into another universe, or is it the same?

 

More practical information about the Silent Sky Project#  is available.