Broken Telephone
Voice recordings, rewired vintage rotary phones
dimensions variable
(2018)
Participants listened to a recording of a person recounting a dream. The listeners then become the narrator. The self-recording begins with a script, but as the new narrator recounts the plot of the dream from memory, inevitably new elements are added and some are lost.
Each phone plays the recordings on loop and a faint cacophonous whispering is heard in the gallery space, individual narrators are only fully intelligible when the receiver is held to the visitor's ear.
Each phone plays the recordings on loop and a faint cacophonous whispering is heard in the gallery space, individual narrators are only fully intelligible when the receiver is held to the visitor's ear.