7.10.2005

Mobile mouthpiece: "What would you say, given one free minute of anonymous, uncensored speech?" So asks Ohio State MFA student Daniel Jolliffe with his mobile art project, One Free Minute. Looking a little like a Little Tikes bike trailer mated with a Victrola by Atelier van Lieshout, the sculpture allows cellphone callers to leave one minute of anonymous, free speech that is then broadcast in public spaces. The recordings remain anonymous--caller ID data is purged and both live and recorded calls are randomly selected to be played out of the loudspeaker--and more than 1000 callers have participated, offering an array of free speech samples. The range? One caller decries how "f*&$ing terrifying" the Project for a New American Century is, while another performs the theme from Beverly Hills Cop as if he's a chicken.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think the caller was saying "fucking terrifying".

Anonymous said...

I think the caller was saying "fucking terrifying".