Two times 4’33

Of particular interest to de Boer is the assumption that during the course of a film screening, the actual space of the viewer and the fictive space of the film are diffused by the viewer’s subjective mechanisms of perception. Thus in Two Times 4’33“, which is based on John Cage’s composition "4'33”" (1952) and consists of three silent movements, the artist experiments with this theme. She filmed two performances of the same piece; the first performance was recorded with the sound of the audience and background noise, while the second performance is shown in complete silence. In this way de Boer explores the impact of the different recordings on the viewer. The function of memory, that during the second performance has an influence on the viewer’s perception and orientation of the space, therefore plays a determining role. In the second instance, viewers reflect on themselves and on their own perception of time and space.