Work

Metaphysical Hotline

Maker Oil Ancestors  ·  Work date 2021-06-09  ·  Medium telephone  ·  Role work

Description

Live Arts Miami is pleased to introduce Oil Ancestors: Metaphysical Hotline, a telephone theater experience designed for an audience of one, by Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and LALA artist in residence, Fereshteh Toosi. Metaphysical Hotline seeks curious, open-minded volunteer participants for a research study about power and responsibility in an era of rapid global change. Our intimate telephone consultations require your active participation and undivided attention. Your efforts will support ongoing research about at-home ancestral transmissions. Apply by May 23rd at 11:59 PM by completing the pre-performance questionnaire. If you are chosen, you will receive a text message to confirm your appointment time on May 24. Those who are not accepted into the program at that time will be contacted if availability opens up. Act now to express your interest in a LIVE phone session w

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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 live telephone session with no headphone requirement stated.

• Participants move through space as part of the worknoI

  A seated telephone consultation demanding 'undivided attention', with no relocation instruction.

• Audio technology is necessaryyesP

  Listing calls it a telephone theater experience and a LIVE phone session.

• Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI

  'At-home ancestral transmissions' describes the research topic, not a stated participant requirement; no site or language requirement.

• Engages with the history of a sitenoI

  Content concerns ancestry and global change, not documented past events of a named real place.

• Created for an urban environmentnoI

  The Miami base is the artist's, not a requirement of the phone work.

• Created as an artwork other than theateryesP

  Presented via Live Arts Miami by an 'interdisciplinary artist' and artist-in-residence, framed as a research study.

• Intended to be understood as theateryesP

  Listing calls it 'telephone theater... for an audience of one' with a 'pre-performance questionnaire'.

• Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?

  Nothing establishes that the participant's surroundings feed the work.
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• Spectator must participateyesP

  Listing states the consultations 'require your active participation and undivided attention'.

• Has live performers other than the participantsyesP

  Listing advertises a 'LIVE phone session' at a confirmed appointment time.

• Involves game playnoI

  A consultation with no rules, objective, or resolution state.

• Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?

  The pre-performance questionnaire is completed beforehand, and no in-session physical object is mentioned.
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