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© IWM
Exhibition
Moments of Silence
21 Sep 2018 – 31 Mar 2019
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Lambeth Road
- London
- SE1 6HZ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: 1, 3, 12, 45, 53, 59, 63, 68, 100, 159, 168, 171, 172, 176,188, 344, 360, 453, C10)
- Tube: Lambeth North (Bakerloo Line) Waterloo (Bakerloo, Northern, Jubilee Line) Southwark (Jubilee Line) Elephant & Castle (Bakerloo, Northern Line)
Two minute silences from the depths of the ocean to the heights of Everest form part of this immersive installation.
About
As the First World War drew to a close, there was an intention in Britain to create a national memorial to war – the Hall of Remembrance – which would house commissioned artworks by some of the most prominent twentieth century war artists, including Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer and John Singer Sargent. The Hall itself was never realised, but a number of now familiar national remembrance rituals took its place, from the two minute silence to the roll call of the dead.
Moments of Silence uses these rituals as its starting point, combining animation, light projection, sound and space to question the significance of collective and more intimate forms of remembrance in new and experiential ways. Central to the installation are a series of twelve atmospheric ‘silences’, a number of which were recorded at 11am on 11 November 2017. Predominantly collected from around the UK, the recordings include a wide-ranging variety of two minute silences, from the first ever recorded silence at the 1929 Cenotaph Remembrance Service to present day silences at Everest Base Camp and HMS Ambush, an Astute Class Submarine.
