Silent Lunch is an interactive sound and food performance, where the audience is invited to a three-course dinner, eating in silence with hearing protection on, thereby changing the focus of each participant’s senses inward. We have arranged Silence Lunch both in Denmark and internationally at festivals, workshops, and social gatherings with huge success. For some people, it has been a wonderful and awakening experience; others have had to leave the performance because it was too extreme for them, yet they saw it as a very unique and positive experience that they would carry with them.
The concept was originally initiated and developed by Steen Andersen and visual artist & vocalist My Lambertsen, for Nordic Sound Art Festival (LAK).
Over the years, Silent Lunch has taken other forms individually, among others, as part of the Lost Farm Festival’s Ukrainian-Danish Art & Cultural Exchange Program workshop process, Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2025.
(Photos by Vadym Monastyrskyi.)
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Silent Lunch for 92 people at Copenhagen’s culture and diversity festival ‘Taste the World (Smag Verden)‘:
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Silent Lunch for 48 people at the reopening event of Château de La Salle in France:
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Silent Lunch for 70 people at the Hamburg-Kopenhagen, City Link project:
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(Photos by Bjørn Fabricius Hansen & Steen Andersen)
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The concept had its debut at the Nordic Sound Art Festival – LAK, Copenhagen. For the dinner speech, we invited the Danish poet Morten Søndergaard.
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(Photos by Antonin Lowres)