Work
Secrets
Maker Living Lucid Creative · Work date 2020-06-23 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
What if you could tell your secrets to a complete stranger? Would you dare? Would you share a serious secret or a funny one? Imagine this stranger as completely nonjudgmental, willing to listen to anything you say! They may be quiet and let you explore the topic on your own or they may ask you provoking questions. Would you explore your secret? Are you willing? Are you daring? Will you risk examining that secret part of yourself? What if the role was reversed? Are you curious about what someone else’s secrets are? Will they be like yours? Will they be vastly different? Are the secrets minor or silly or do the secrets reveal something deep inside? What will you do with that information? Will it make you nervous? Or relieved? Or something else entirely? How do you relate to the secrets they share? In this virtual immersive experience the choice is yours. Choose to talk
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 phone call; no headphones are requested.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
The listing asks only that the participant talk and listen, never that they move.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The exchange of secrets happens entirely on the phone call.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
No location, named circumstance or language requirement appears.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
Content is the participant’s and a stranger’s secrets, with no reference to documented events of a real place.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
A phone call presupposes a telephone, not city infrastructure.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
Framed as a virtual experience/conversation service with no non-theatrical discipline named.
- Intended to be understood as theaterunknown?
“Virtual immersive experience” is the only framing and it is not clearly theatrical vocabulary; no show, cast, audience or performer language appears.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
The listing never addresses the participant’s real surroundings.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesP
“In this virtual immersive experience the choice is yours. Choose to talk…” — the work is the participant telling or hearing secrets.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesI
The stranger “may be quiet…or they may ask you provoking questions,” which requires a human responding on the line.
- Involves game playnoI
No rules, objective or resolution state are described.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No materials are mentioned.
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