Live, intimate phone chats: an art project for our times

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The performance art experience Dark Talk Time connects pairs of strangers for hosted phone conversations

Even without the rigours of lockdown, these are isolating and stressful times. Human connection is at a premium, and artists are finding creative ways to provide it. With few options left for live art under Melbourne’s stage four restrictions, one project seems almost custom-made for this moment.Dark Talk Time

“In 2018, I did a durational piece about humming – humming for 24 hours,” he says. “It had all of these people coming into a space and really connecting with each other without knowing who the other people were.“I got obsessed by the idea of anonymity as a conduit of intimacy,” Landau continues. “[That] led to thinking about a conversation between two people who can’t see one another — a bit like those restaurants that serve you in complete darkness so you can’t see your food.

The lost art of the deep and meaningful is one element in the mix, but the experience can also resemble the many incidental social interactions − random chats you might have while travelling abroad, on public transport or on the street − that add texture to daily life, especially in a city as friendly and communitarian as Melbourne.Landau admits he misses those chance conversations, “especially intergenerational ones, or with people outside of my friendship group”.

“Speaking to a stranger in a conversation with no future, no catch and no expectations, you can be totally honest,” Walker adds.

 

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as opposed to just going out to meet another human being... you know like we used to do before news shite like and abcnews traumatised (deliberately) the nation into being scared of each other. WAKE UP PEOPLE! fight their script.

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