top
artdept rebecca & Ian   *HOME *ARTDEPT *WEEKS & WHITFORD *iNDIVIDUAL PROJECTS *CURATED *CONTACT
topgrad
 

ArtDept... 'Hotline'
'Live Art Falmouth' 2007
Hotline continued ArtDepts attempts at usurping and parodying the apparatus of power, in redirecting systems and structures and in questioning the validity of anonymous unaccountable organisations that swallow resources. Artdepts approach fused a kind of textual neo - dada ‘absurdist’ critique of contemporary culture and the use of an apparently benign corporate advertising aesthetic.

The work was composed of elements of installation, video and performance writing and required ArtDept to collaborate with a programmer in order to create the structure to deliver the performance writing. The resultant automated phone line funnells the unsuspecting audience through options that ultimately lead in circles or to dead ends, their progress inundated by periods of ‘Muzac’, fax machine noises, and lines that go dead.

This process casts the audience as performers who through frustration & humour appreciate the critique of modern life that is being made.

 
 
 
  'Hotline' - Selected images & Video          
  hotline 1   hotline 2   hotline 3   hotline 4  
  play Play Video excert              
  hotline 5   hotline 6   hotline 7   hotline 8  
                 
  hotline 9   hotline10   hotline 11   hotline 12  
 
 
 
At nisl feugait, ad ut ut esse et iriure qui, dolor facilisis. Luptatum eu feugait consequat luptatum dolor tation aliquip consequat. Ea eros duis eu ut ut nibh. Dolore diam tation. Et ad te eros dignissim nostrud et ut quis. Elit vel diam iriure. Facilisi autem vel sit, ex tation augue facilisi, facilisis te hendrerit facilisis autem et. Delenit erat iriure vel augue aliquip, dignissim autem quis duis, luptatum tation, wisi praesent dolore aliquam. Illum esse te consectetuer quis, hendrerit ut augue duis. Duis, at feugait blandit at accumsan iusto eum.