“TELEPHONE is a game played by artists. It works like the children’s game of the same name. A message is whispered from person to person and changes and evolves as it is passed from player to player. In our case, we pass a secret message from art form to art form, so a message could become poetry and then painting and then music and then film, throughout all possible forms of art. We also assign each finished work of art to two or three other artists, so the game branches outward exponentially like a family tree.”
The exhibition (online) contains 1,395 individual works of art. According to Telephone: “… because they are directly based on one another, these 1,395 artists have together created a single work of art. We leave it to your own judgement, but it is possible that TELEPHONE is one work of art, created by artists from 65 countries.”
I would describe it as a dispersed artwork, without boundaries. No person can really see it or experience it in its totality. So on the one hand it is one thing, but on the other you can’t experience it as one thing.
To dive in at the start: https://telephonegame.art/
To start with my drawing: https://telephonegame.art/artists/walter-van-rijn
Besides my drawing I have also uploaded some thoughts about my way of working.
Artwork details:
Walter van Rijn © 2025
Hey Alexa and Siri, Is AI Eating Me? Hybrid Drawing, ink on handmade paper. 42×30 cm.
Physical Exhibition:
Base Camp Studios 2
1901 3rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98121, USA
https://www.basecamp206.com
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