Work
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Maker this · Work date 2022-06-13 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
Each iteration of 'this' is a conversation happening in your here-and-now, on a phone call. It can happen wherever you choose— anywhere that feels peaceful and alive to you. We'll guide you from there. 'this' is wild - it unravels with whatever happens. 'this' is an exploration of placeful-ness, an invitation to locate ourselves, a wandering together toward ease. --- 'this' launches June 13 and happens at varying times of day and evening currently through July 10 To reserve your call, take a look through our calendar and select a date and time that is comfortable for you. You'll be asked for USD$5 to place your reservation. We'll need your contact information. When the time comes, arrive with your phone to the place of your choosing. We wish for you to experience 'this' in a place where you have some access to the natural world. As free from interruption as may be possible. 'thi
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
Delivered as a phone call with no headphone instruction, so absence of a headphone requirement is a structural inference.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
The participant arrives with their phone at one chosen place and no relocation is instructed during the call.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The listing states each iteration is a conversation on a phone call.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificSituationI
The listing names the circumstance it wants - a peaceful place with some access to the natural world, free from interruption - rather than any location, though it is phrased as a wish.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The work happens wherever the participant chooses and no real place or documented past event is referenced.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
The work asks for access to the natural world and presupposes no city infrastructure.
- Created as an artwork other than theaterunknown?
The listing frames the work in no discipline at all, theatrical or otherwise.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Intended to be understood as theaterunknown?
No theatrical vocabulary appears, but nothing in the listing rules it out either.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantyesP
The listing says it 'unravels with whatever happens' and is an exploration of placeful-ness in the participant's own chosen surroundings.
- Spectator must participateyesP
It is described as a conversation the participant takes part in.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesI
Reserved date-and-time slots plus 'We'll guide you from there' indicate a person on the line in real time.
- Involves game playnoI
The listing describes conversation and wandering with no rules, objective or resolution state.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No physical materials are mentioned in either direction.
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