Work
Musings
Maker Candle House · Work date 2026 · Medium telephone · Role work · Experienced by the compiler 2026-08-12 at 22:10
Description
Candle House reads the participant a poem, one to four minutes. No interaction is needed or expected. The session logged here was a poem called Gravity.
Source. No published description found.
CAMEO WOOD'S OWN ACCOUNT. Unscheduled and free to followers, so no public listing exists. 'No interaction expected' points at C10 = n.
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
Delivered by telephone; a handset is not headphones and the account mentions none.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
A one-to-four-minute phone poem with no instruction to change location.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesI
The work is a poem read aloud on the phone, so the sound device is the work.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
The account records no required site, circumstance or language.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The logged poem, "Gravity," names no real place or documented events.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
A phone poem presupposes a phone, not city surroundings.
- Created as an artwork other than theateryesI
The account describes the work as a poem read aloud — a literary form — though no maker framing is recorded.
- Intended to be understood as theaterunknown?
The work is unscheduled and unlisted, so no theatrical vocabulary exists to weigh either way.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
The account does not address the participant's surroundings.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participatenoI
The first-hand account states "No interaction is needed or expected"; the participant can stay silent and the poem completes.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesI
The account has Candle House reading the poem to the participant on the call, a person performing in real time.
- Involves game playnoI
A short poem with no rules, objective or resolution state.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
The account mentions no physical materials either way.
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