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Stir: Pallavi Paul archives the silence of the pandemic through Share Your Quiet

Part of Surviving SQ by Sunaparanta Goa, the project invites people to share 10-second sounds of everyday ‘quiet’ as an alternative way to cope with the lockdown due to COVID19.

By Jones John

“In recent days, noise/sound seems to be an index of measuring public spirit. When we have no way of measuring silence, perhaps it is important to hold a space for quietude,” reads the open call for Pallavi Paul’s Share Your Quiet ongoing project, which invites people to share 10-second audio recordings of their everyday moments of ‘quiet’ so that they may be compiled together by the artist. “In silence things churn, relationships change, and ideas are born,” she holds.

Share Your Quiet is part of Sunaparanta Goa’s online initiative Surviving SQ, SQ being self-quarantine, which invites creative practitioners to share alternative ways of coping with the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. The decision to go online seems only natural during this time, when people cannot go out to engage with art but are afforded more free time than usual within the confines of their own homes. Sunaparanta had initially approached Paul by inviting her, as they did many others, to share existing artworks or vignettes of her studio practice, but certain events that were occurring in India at the time had planted the seeds of a more poignant project in her mind for which she was now provided a suitable platform.

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