Work
@lastcandlearx
Maker Candle House · Work date 2018-??-?? · Medium telephone + other · Role work
Description
Maker's own words, Evan Neiden on FringeArts' "Happy Hour on the Fringe": "Our pilot project was called Lastcandlearx, also a reference to that story, which was pretty heavily inspired by both folklore and that alternate reality game format. It invited 50 participants to consistently engage with the world we've created over the course of about five months, and to shape it and affect it as we went along." candlehouse.org/work lists it as: "@lastcandlearx, 2018, multimedia. Performed by Evan Neiden, Jonathan Connolly, and John Ertman." No maker text describing "the Apprentice" was retrievable.
Source. https://fringearts.com/2021/07/08/happy-hour-on-the-fringe-candlehouse-collective/
On the medium. Instagram-based ARX over ~5 months with telephone contact. Maker's own category: multimedia.
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
Contact is by telephone and Instagram; no headphone requirement is stated.
- Participants move through space as part of the workunknown?
A five-month Instagram-and-phone ARX could involve going places, but no instruction to relocate is recorded.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Audio technology is necessaryunknown?
The work runs mainly on Instagram with telephone contact, so whether removing the sound device would end it is not established.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Site-, situation- or language-specificunknown?
No site, named circumstance or language requirement is recorded for this distributed multi-platform work.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Engages with the history of a siteunknown?
The maker cites folklore inspiration but says nothing about documented history of a real place.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Created for an urban environmentnoI
Delivery is by phone and Instagram, which presuppose devices rather than city density.
- Created as an artwork other than theateryesP
The maker categorises it as “multimedia” and says it was “heavily inspired by…that alternate reality game format.”
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
Maker credits list it as “Performed by Evan Neiden, Jonathan Connolly, and John Ertman.”
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
Nothing in the maker’s words addresses whether the participants’ real surroundings feed the work.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesM
Neiden’s own words: it “invited 50 participants to consistently engage…and to shape it and affect it as we went along.”
- Has live performers other than the participantsunknown?
Three performers are credited across five months, but nothing establishes real-time performance during a participant’s session.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Involves game playunknown?
Being “inspired by” the ARG format does not establish rules, an objective and a resolution state.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No materials or physical objects are mentioned in the maker’s account.
Did you experience this? Tell us
8 of thirteen are still unknown for this work. If you experienced it, you can settle them in a minute.