Work
The Hotline
Maker The Honeytrap · Work date 2023-09-04 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
Accessed via a 1800 number, The Hotline allows callers to explore anecdotes on reproductive healthcare via a phone menu with each user creating their own choose-your-own-adventure style narrative. Satirising anti-choice pregnancy helplines, The Hotline explores how patriarchal medicine impacts those experiencing reproductive health issues. Call 1800 960 929 now (Australia only) or visit https://www.thehoneytrap.net.au/thehotlinelive to experience a chatbot version of the work.
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
Accessed by dialling an 1800 number, with no headphone instruction.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
Callers navigate a phone menu with no instruction to change location.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The listing states the work is accessed via a 1800 number and phone menu.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
The Australia-only number is a reach limitation, not a site, circumstance or language the work requires.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The content is anecdotes on reproductive healthcare and satire of helplines, not the documented past of a place.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
A phone line presupposes a telephone, not city infrastructure.
- Created as an artwork other than theaterunknown?
The listing calls it 'the work' but names no discipline, theatrical or otherwise.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Intended to be understood as theaternoI
The listing uses only 'callers' and 'users' and markets the piece as a hotline service, with no theatrical vocabulary.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantnoI
A phone menu delivering pre-recorded anecdotes would play identically regardless of the caller's surroundings.
- Spectator must participateyesP
Callers navigate a phone menu to build their own choose-your-own-adventure narrative, so input is required.
- Has live performers other than the participantsnoI
A permanently dialable phone menu with a chatbot equivalent indicates an automated system rather than a live performer.
- Involves game playnoI
Choose-your-own-adventure branching is narrative choice with no objective or resolution state.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No physical objects are mentioned either way.
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