"A silence dwells in black treetops."
––Georg Trakl
TEN MILLION AND ONE SILENCES
(22 Volumes, 2021)
Ten Million and One Silences is presented in collaboration with
edition taberna kritika ("curatorbooks" series 001), Bern, Switzerland.
Description: Pantano began writing Ten Million and One Silences on Thursday, 13 March 1997––the day of his mother's suicide––and continued working on the text until Saturday, 13 March 2021. The result is an exercise in endurance art/literature as well as an exploration and treatment of, and response to, notions of loss, absence, trauma, and time.
Genre(s): Endurance art, endurance literature, conceptual art, conceptual literature, experimental literature, constrained writing, artist book, memoir.
Method(s): Composition, archiving, documentation.
Subject(s): Absence, suicide, silence, time, trauma, memory.
Volumes: 22
Project ISBN: 978-3-03947-001-3
Included in the Artist's Book Yearbook 2022–23 (Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England).
List of universities, libraries, institutes, and private collections holding complete sets of Ten Million and One Silences:
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University of Bern, Switzerland
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University Library Bern Special Collections, Switzerland (2 complete sets)
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Private collection, Paris, France
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Private collection, Bogotá, Colombia
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Private collection, Stuttgart, Germany
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Private collection, Geneva, Switzerland
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Private collection, Cairo, Egypt
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Private Collection, Berlin, Germany
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Private Collection, New York, United States
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Private Collection, Oslo, Norway
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Private Collection, Bergen, Norway
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Private Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
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Volume 1
Hardcover, 478 pages
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Volume 2
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Volume 3
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Volume 4
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Volume 5
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Volume 6
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Volume 7
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Volume 8
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Volume 9
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Volume 10
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Volume 11
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Volume 12
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Volume 13
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Volume 14
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Volume 15
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Volume 16
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Volume 17
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Volume 18
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Volume 19
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Volume 20
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Volume 21
Hardcover, 478 pages
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Volume 22
Hardcover, 173 pages
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