No Answer
No answer, Lush Lane
"Faintly above the clamour of the city, you recognise a ringing sound – the bell of an increasingly obsolete public telephone. Intrigued and instinctively drawn to the familiar chime, you enter a laneway. The sound intensifies, gently filling the spatial volume of the laneway with tones created from the pealing of many telephones.
In the centre of a melodious cacophony, you search for the source, locating it on the wall of the laneway. A gaggle of public telephones, calling out for your response, are teasingly beyond your reach, unanswerable. An anti-interactive artwork."
I almost annoyed myself searching high and low for Philip Brophy and Martine Corompt's colaborated artwork at Lush Lane, Melbourne when i was there last year. I remember repeatedly annoying MsTan and some couple other victims of how i 'HAVE TO SEE THIS PIECE' and coincidently bumped into it again on a site and daymn...how could i have forgot, it was Lush Lane
I remember turning my head everytime i walk pass a dark abandoned alley hoping, just hoping that i'd catch it, or at least hear the faint sounds of the echoed rings.
I did that for days like a lost child , weeks even; and finally gave up when i heard no sound from the 8 ringing public telephones.
I guess both artists got what they wanted, the tease of an unreachable art.
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