Exhibition
Hotline
16 Oct 2020 – 15 Nov 2020
Regular hours
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Address
- 155 Plymouth Street
- Brooklyn
- New York
New York - 11201
- United States
Travel Information
- Subway: F to York Street, A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street
Hotline is an interactive performance by 2019-2020 A.I.R. Fellow Aliza Shvarts that takes on the format of the voicemail tree. Call (866) 696-0940 to participate.
About
Hotline is an interactive performance by 2019-2020 A.I.R. Fellow Aliza Shvarts that takes on the format of the voicemail tree. Building on Shvarts’ current practice, which focuses on the power of testimony and the circulation of speech in the digital age, Hotline explores the voice as both a metonym of the body and metaphor for political agency. Beginning with a toll-free phone number that can be dialed from any phone, this asynchronous performance allows participants to choose from set options to advance a “choose your own adventure”-type narrative. At the very end of the experience, participants have the option of leaving an anonymous message—which will be made public as documentation of the performance. Presented in conjunction with the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation’s Performance-in-Place series, the phone number will be live and able to receive calls 24-hours a day from Tuesday, September 1, 2020 to Saturday, January 23, 2021. Call (866) 696-0940 to participate.
