Work

The Other Side Of The Line

Maker Mirror World Creations  ·  Work date 2021-06-26  ·  Medium telephone  ·  Role work

Description

Your friend Alex needs your help — her cousin Karen has jumped on the anti-vaxxer bandwagon and is now refusing to inoculate her kid. And Alex can’t get through to her — but due to an incident involving leg injuries and hot chocolate, Karen really likes *you.* So Alex has asked you to help talk her around. But when even the truth is politicized, how do you persuade a relative or friend on the other side of the line? "The Other Side Of The Line" is a 30-45 minute immersive experience, a phone call between you and your fictional friend Alex’s "cousin Karen." Over the course of a phone call, you'll have the chance to engage with Karen's beliefs, and perhaps even persuade her to engage with yours. An exercise in patience and empathy, this experience focuses on interacting with harmful perspectives in a constructive way. *** A phone adventure is a piece of intimate immersive theater that y

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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 30-45 minute phone call with no headphone requirement stated.

• Participants move through space as part of the worknoI

  A single phone conversation with no instruction to change location.

• Audio technology is necessaryyesP

  Listing describes the work as a phone call between the participant and 'cousin Karen'.

• Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI

  No required site, circumstance, or language is named.

• Engages with the history of a sitenoI

  A fictional family dispute over vaccination, referencing no real place's documented past.

• Created for an urban environmentnoI

  Nothing presupposes urban surroundings.

• Created as an artwork other than theaternoP

  The maker's boilerplate frames the phone adventure as 'intimate immersive theater'.

• Intended to be understood as theateryesP

  Listing calls it an immersive experience and immersive theater played with an actor.

• Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?

  Nothing is said about the participant's surroundings.
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• Spectator must participateyesP

  The whole work is the participant talking to and attempting to persuade Karen.

• Has live performers other than the participantsyesP

  Boilerplate states it is played one-on-one with an actor who contacts the participant.

• Involves game playnoI

  Framed as 'an exercise in patience and empathy' with no rules, scoring, or defined win state.

• Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?

  No physical materials are mentioned either way.
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