I created a version of the telephone game that is adapted to our social interaction, physical disconnection, and our augmented use of artificial intelligence. During the exhibition of the Youmein festival, I played the game with 57 participants with a Handy recorder.
The first one arriving listened to the sentence ‘the time stands still in the evening sun’. The game continued as a collective dissociative performance such as Nicolas Bourriaud would refer to as “relational aesthetics”.
The last recording was: ‘yesterday I was emotional’. ‘The time stands still…’ is a line from the book Fahrenheit 451, where the fireman Monday catches a glimpse of a book before burning it. The author creates a world that is ment to stop the social awareness by erasing books.
This performative sound piece is ought to reflect on our consumption of news and information through different social media platforms. The arriving information that we perceive is filtered through a person’s perspective until we are unable to distinguish useful information.