Work
A Call from the Resistance
Maker Capital W · Work date 2020-09-30 · Medium telephone · Role work · Experienced by the compiler 2026-07-17
Description
Are you troubled by the story of America? Do you have lingering pain from the 2016 presidential election? If so, sign up for a call from one of our volunteers, who will help you process the past and feel into the future. This 30-minute experience invites you to consider the unexpected impact of your place in America. Participants have described it as affirming, calming, and activating.
Source. No published description found.
Anatomy
Thirteen criteria after Lauren R. Beck. Each carries a source grade: M maker-confirmed, P published, F first-hand, I inferred by the compiler, ? not yet established. Definitions are on the anatomy page.
- Participants listen through headphonesnoI
A 30-minute phone call; no headphones are requested.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
The listing contains no instruction to change location.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The entire experience is a call from a volunteer.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
No site, named circumstance or language is required; the call reaches the participant wherever they are.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
It references national political events rather than documented history of the specific place where the work happens, and no site is involved.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
A phone call presupposes a telephone, not city infrastructure.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
Marketed as a service — “sign up for a call from one of our volunteers” — with no non-theatrical discipline named.
- Intended to be understood as theaternoI
Written as a volunteer call-service listing with no theatrical vocabulary; it says “participants,” not audience, show or performance.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
The listing never addresses whether the participant’s real surroundings matter.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesI
The volunteer “will help you process the past and feel into the future” and the piece “invites you to consider”, indicating a two-way call.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesI
A volunteer places and conducts the 30-minute call in real time.
- Involves game playnoI
No rules, objective or resolution state are present.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No materials are mentioned.
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