ON SILENCE. THE PROXIMITY OF AN EVANESCENT AUTHOR
ON SILENCE. THE PROXIMITY OF AN EVANESCENT AUTHOR

Summary/Abstract: 4’33” by John Cage: the pianist is rising his hand, but his fingers are never touching the piano. 4’33” inaugurates a negative aesthetics: the aesthetics of silence. Silence is a sort of “zero degree” of the spectacle, a performance staging the dissolution of the author - his extinction - in order to generate the need to bring him back. But nobody can be silent being absent. As a result, silence is, in the end, an “act” of the presence, reconfiguring the proximity of a “silent” author, an author without signature.

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