Reflecting on 50 years of telephone use in Australian drama, and a moment of scientific investigation.
Hellos, goodbyes, grunts, silences, answering, hanging up, questions, demands, sympathy, enquiry, deceit, disappointment, excitement…
By removing the message or narrative what remains is a collection of actions, movements and the ubiquitous telephone; grey, black, white, cream, blue, round, square, dials, press pad, ringing, pulsing or beeping tones.
At the centre of this project is reflection, sited in a place of solitude-a place for dreaming. Mobile and immobile, conversations bracketed by selected connections and disconnections.
Why It Is So (not…Why Is It So?) Julius Sumner Miller no. 3N99955 ‘Physics of Optics and Reflection’.
credits
Electronics: Stephen Jones
Technical support: Josh Raymond and John Tonkin
