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Event Location: Ocean, South Side of the Huntington Beach Pier for viewing
Background Information On The Silent Sky Project# Huntington Beach:
Meeting on the beach at 9:30 a.m. – south side of the Huntington Beach Pier – surfers will paddle out into the ocean on their individual surfboards, just past the surf line and pier. With the assistance of Marine Safety, the surfers will attach to an anchored line from this spot at 10 a.m. Once everyone is attached, the artist Rob Sweere will begin the project of the surfers lying on their backs on their surfboards in the ocean for exactly 30 minutes. At the end, the surfers will gather again on the beach to discuss the experience.
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 completed many performances and actions – in museums, galleries and also outdoors 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 has created circumstances for the public itself to experience daily surroundings in a different way. Feeling a certain lack of ability to communicate his intense experiences to the public as frozen images, Rob decided to work out a concept where the public participates in the sculpture so they will have their own genuine experience. He invites people to become actively involved in his artworks. 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.
In this project, the earth is 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 take place in many countries around the world to create different points from where we look into space in a state of being intensified by group dynamics as well. The artist says: “As a child we have been lying on our backs in the grass, spending 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 surroundings? Do you really experience your environment? Or do we use this space just to move from one place to another to fulfill our daily duties?
In the Silent Sky Project#, I invite 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?”
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