The Quiet Volume
It's always the quiet ones.
Overview
It's always the quiet ones. Members of the Concrete Playground team saw this unassuming audio-theatre piece by UK artists Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells in Utrecht and reported it to be phenomenal.
Here now for the Sydney Festival, The Quiet Volume has you sit side by side with a partner in the Mitchell Library, each of you with headphones on and a stack of books at your elbow. The words on the page, the voice in your ear, and occasionally the companion at your table guide you through a journey that shakes up your understanding of the act of reading.
The whispered, interactive work also makes for a great excuse to visit the library, an institution so many of us still have a great love for although rarely visit.
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