Work
Fragile Recall
Maker Mirror World Creations · Work date 2021-06-26 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY -- have a chat with your past life! Purchase now to get a telephone number -- only $49.99! Famed psychic Genesis Mahabini knows all, sees all, tells all -- buy now and book a date and time to chat with your previous incarnation! In the sixty-minute phone call that is "Fragile Recall," famed psychic Genesis Mahabini claims she can help you chat up your previous incarnation. But is the sad woman she sends you to talk to really someone you once were? And if not, what does she need — and why does she care so much about you as her legacy? *** A phone adventure is a piece of intimate immersive theater that you’ll play out — just you and an actor, one-on-one — via text message and phone call. All sessions will be booked directly between you and the performer, who will contact you via a phone number provided beforehand. No preparation or research is necessary — we'll s
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 sixty-minute phone call with no headphone requirement stated.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
A booked phone-and-text session with no instruction to change location.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
Listing describes a sixty-minute phone call plus text messages as the work itself.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
No required site, circumstance, or language is named.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
Content is a fictional psychic and past incarnation, not documented events of a real place.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
Nothing presupposes urban surroundings.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoP
The maker's own boilerplate calls a phone adventure 'a piece of intimate immersive theater'.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
Listing says 'intimate immersive theater' and names an 'actor' and 'performer'.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
Nothing is said about the participant's surroundings.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesP
Boilerplate says the adventure is one you 'play out — just you and an actor, one-on-one'.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
Listing states sessions are booked directly with a performer who contacts you, 'just you and an actor'.
- Involves game playnoI
A conversational narrative with no objective or resolution state described.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
'No preparation or research is necessary' is truncated mid-sentence and no physical object is specified.
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